The vodou calendar is based on the ancient cosmic essence of time in kemit. The date and time can find themselves knotted in some of the ancient kemit culture, practices and celebrations. The kemit calendar was a solar calendar developped by the ancient egyptian to dvide the year into 13 month. The division corrspponmded tot he suncycle. The egyptian calendar is one of the first calendar known to mankind. It is the most accurat ein term of climate conditions and agriculture. In essence the egyptian farmer relied on it to determine the season of agriculture and crop yileding for thousand of years.
Vodou is an ancestral spiritual tradition is based on the harminization od the four elemtns of nature. It is appropriate that the celebration of the loas that embopdies the realm of vodou are also celebrated according totheir cosmic ans solar and planeterum relation to the universe.
The ancientegyptian calendar was a solor calendar with 365 day a year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 day each, plus an intercalary moth of five epaaagomenal days which were name after significant evetns related to their agrarian lifestyle. Each season was divided into 4 months of 30 days. These twele months were initially numbered within each season but cam to also be known by th ename of their principals festival. Each month was divided into three 10 day periods known as decans or decades. Decans are groups of stars in ancient egyptian astronomy that were used to tell time at night. Ancient Kamit was a gift of the river Nile. whose annual flooding organized the natural year into three broad natural season known tothe egyptian as the three season corresponded to the cycle of nile agriculture. New year day was in july 19 and marked the beginning of the first season akhet. This was the time of the flooding of the Nile.
The Next season during which the crops began to emerge was called peret. and started on November 16, the last season shemu began on march 17 at harvest time. The last five days of the year corresponding to the birth of each dieities, were july 14, 18 days which were considered unlocky and dangerous.
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