What, you thought Jesus-lovers owned the advent calendar game? Bible verse cardboard advent calendars are so yesterday, sweet friend. If you’re shopping for the best advent calendars this year, please know that you don’t need to resign yourself to the waxy drugstore chocolates you ate with your first gay crush at that youth group—although, WHAT […]
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Sacred Calendars and New Years: Cycles of Time and Ages
January 7th, 2023 Awake Goy
The global holiday of a new year symbolizes all we have experienced for the duration of the year, and all our hopes and dreams for the year ahead. Such observances date back over 4,000 years, often in conjunction with the solstices and equinoxes that marked the cycles of natural seasons. In ancient Mesopotamia, the celebration […]
Are The Gōbekli Tepe Enclosures Giant Lunisolar Calendars?
March 10th, 2022 Awake Goy
Situated in southern Turkey near the upper Euphrates, Gōbekli Tepe has become famous for its surprisingly advanced megalithic architecture and symbolism, seemingly too early for the hunter-gather culture that built it. Enclosure D at Gōbekli Tepe is dated to around 9500 BC, although it is obvious that Gōbekli Tepe’s origin must significantly predate this. How, […]