364 Sidereal Days in a Reverse Orbit

Bill Hollon replies:

As Chris says, astronomical years change over the millennia, in spite of what was obviously believed by the author of The Book of Enoch, who wrote in its Chapter 74: "And the sun and the stars bring in all the years exactly, so that they do not advance or delay their position by a single day unto eternity; but complete the years with perfect justice in 364 days.

In 3 years there are 1,092 days, and in 5 years 1,820 days, so that in 8 years there are 2,912 days." It seems clear that the person who wrote the above passage also believed that the 364 days was not just a 52-week calendar year, but was the actual length of a sidereal year.

See Dead Sea Scroll 4Q396(MMTc) "a calendar of 364 days,". "A significant feature of the community was its calendar, which was based on a solar system of 364 days, unlike the common Jewish lunar calendar, which consisted of 354 days."

There is a small possibility that this solar system of 364 days was earth's rotations against the stars in reverse orbits, perhaps at the time of writing. There must be 364 rotations a year in a reverse orbit.

The Egyptians had a Sothis cycle. This meant that at 2737 BC, they counted July 16 and the appearing of Sirius just before dawn as the beginning of the year and era. That is, they counted the year as 365 days from then on and did not factor in leap year. There were exactly 365.25 rotations a year according to Sirius. There are 365.2422 rotations a year according to the tropical year.

This Sothis/Julian calendar falls back 1 day every 128 years with the tropical year. This meant that their 365 day year would back up to the appearing of Sirius on July 17 1320 BC 1457 years later. The appearing of Sirius July 16 was not affected by precession, first appearing July 16 every year, 1460 year cycles, from 5657 BC to 4197 BC to 2737 BC to 1281 BC. The precession of the equinoxes means stars move 1.4° clockwise every 100 years.

Also, the Sothis calendar loses 1 day every 128 years; meaning the equinox in 2300 BC was April 11 and 1000 years later, in 1281 BC, was April 3 Julian/Sothis. The Egyptian knowing the number of years would know the number of days from July 16 and vice versa. A long day or a short day would not affect the length of the year, it would just be a day. This period is called the Sothis cycle having to do with the first appearing of Sirius before dawn at 4:15 AM July 16.

Presently we have 366 sidereal days a year in our counterclockwise orbit. If earth followed this orbit in reverse, rotations are against orbit and there must be 367 solar day years keeping our 366 sidereal days. We must have had 365 solar day years - explained by these 364 sidereal (complete rotations) day years. If earth slowed its rotation to 364 sidereal day years from 366 to keep the same number of solar days (365 nights/days) per year the ocean would drop 800 feet at the equator.

More likely, earth sped up in the reverse orbit 48 hours a year maintaining the 365 days in a year with 364 sideral days (rotations). Herodotus wrote: "No reversal of sunrise and sunset takes place in a Sothis period." An obvious observation is the sun miracles, the sun perhaps rising in the west and setting in the east, in Exodus were at the end of the sothis cycle in 1281 BC. Obviously the sun continued to rise in the east and set in the west. He was suggesting all days must be normal days inorder for the 365 day Sothis calendar to back up to July 16 exactly. However, all that was needed was that the total days add up to what they should have been. Therefore, the Chinese counting of years of 60 and days of 60 would all add up as if the sun miracles did not happen.

There may have been a sun miracle, the first year of Xerxes, March 3, 478 BC, see Esther 8:16, perhaps the unicorn, the angel the phoenix that moved the sun, Confucius recorded in his old age. Thus Herodotus born about 486 BC would probably be too young to notice it. The Chinese sexagesimal dates, days in cycles of 60, work to date the sun mircle in 2245 BC to the new moon, 2d month, day 38 of cycle, April 22, 2245 BC. This would be April 5 in our Gregorian calendar, back one day every 128 years from the Julian calendar. Thus, the sun miracle would equal Jesus' crucifixion April 3, 33 AD. According to legend a phoenix bird appeared at the end of the Sothis cycle.

Perhaps in 2737 BC, and at 1281 BC, at the end of the sothis cycle, God may have moved the sun 180° around the earth and this be what Herodotus noted. However, there were many other sun miracles up to the time of, and after, Herodotus.

"The sun - it has come to pass it riseth not. The winter is come (instead of) as summer, the months are reversed, and the hours disordered."
Papyrus Anastasi IV

The Papyrus Anastasi IV is dated to the Exodus in 1281 BC. So the Egyptians knew their calendar was in trouble in a reverse orbit. Then for periods of, say, seven or nineteen years, in a reverse orbit, the Egyptians must have counted 365 days to the year without counting from the appearing of Sirius. When earth flowed into the current direction of orbit, counterclockwise, knowing the number of years had passed they could count back four years to a day from July 16 to check their 365 day calendar.

Very likely God reset earth's orientation making the appearing of Sirius on July 16 again. That is, if the sun moved 180° before or after the equinoxes, the sun must move up or down so that earth's orbit followed the same zodiac and the earth keep in the same season on the same calendar days as it normally would.

The sun moving up or down, and earth's orbit shifting up or down, would be the same as if earth shifted on its axis to keep in the same season. Then the sun must move back exactly a half orbit later, either 186 days or 178 days later, and 1 year later to the day, and earth flow out of the reverse orbit of the sun as if nothing had happened.

You will find many reverse orbits/zodiacs at Joshua's Long Day.

This book of Enoch may depict a reverse orbit in the time of Enoch, perhaps from the day he was translated in year 365. This may be at the end of the Armenian Sothis cycle in 3907 BC, according to the Ancient Book of Jubilees.

The 365 day Armenian and Egyptian sothis calendars had backed up a quarter of a year in year 365. The 365 year of Enoch may point to the 365 day Sothis calendar in use at that time. There are 366 sidereal days in a normal earth orbit. Earth is sped up 48 hours in a reverse orbit. Thus the 364 sideral day year during the reverse orbit.

See Fantastic Creature in Ancient Biblical Legend.

The ancient Chinese had a 366 day year instituted by Yao.

This 366 day year may have been passed down from the leap year every 4 years in the Egyptian Sothis calendar from 4197 BC. The new Sothis cycle began 2737 BC, thus 430 years later was the beginning of the second year of famine in 2307 BC and Yao's long day = Joseph's long day, this 2315 BC; 7 + 1 years earlier. The reverse direction of the Chinese zodiac in Yao's Canon suggests the direction of earth's orbit was in reverse to ours.

Notes: "Yaou does not speak scientifically, by says that the round year consists of 366 days. We intercalate one day every four years. But there is nothing in the text to indicate that every fourth year was reckoned 366 days. If it had been so, Yaou's calendar would have been the same as the Julian, and there would have been no necessity for the intercalation of a month at certain regular periods which is indicated."

Although this 366 days may have been sidereal time, this count was taken of suns, days, and right after Yao's long day (an extra day the following year would even out with the long day). If there were 366 sidereal days in a reverse orbit there must be 367 days and nights in a year.

However daily coral lines would show that. Also the Egyptian Sothis period of 1460 years is based on 365 solar day years. The 366 days may refer to the number of days between sun miracles. That is, the sun must move back on the same date a year later. Or two years later and the number of days divided by 2. If the sun stood still for 9 X 12 hours and less 12 hours two years later when the sun returned travelling 180° west there would be no missing time. 108 hours - 12 hours = 96 hours. 2 X 48 hours = 96 hours. However, this is extreme. Nevertheless, the sun must stand still for 36 hours in one of the four or two sun miracles to a reverse orbit year in order to leave no net missing time.