Ancient Somali astronomers developed a complex 365 day calender more than 2000 years ago

[Netero]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_calendar


Our ancestors created a complex 365 day calendar at least 2500 years ago using the stars/constellations (AKA astronomy). It used 7 day weeks because 7 is a holy number. Aside from us, only the Israeli Jews and Babylonians were known to have used 7 day weeks before Christianity. Jews for religious reasons and Babylonians by coincidence. Romans, Chinese, Egyptians, etc, used 4-10 day weeks or had no weeks at all. There were 12 months as well.

There also appear to have been two calendars used in conjunction with each other (solar & lunar) but the article is hard for me to understand.

Btw this has no connection to the Ethiopian calendar that is derived from the Coptic calendar (Egypt).

My thoughts:
The 7 day weeks lines up with how we were a monotheistic people before Islam because of an influential unnamed Somali prophet (one of the 25k around the world). It could also be due to a Judaic influence or just a coincidence.

And 7 day weeks, 12 months in a year and 365 days... This calendar sounds startlingly close to the Gregorian calendar that we currently use today. However that calendar did not develop 365 day years until 2100 years ago and the 7 day week was slowly adopted during the first few centuries after Christianity started. So it appears that the Somali calendar was ahead of the Roman/Gregorian calendar for some time.

 

[Netero]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_calendar

Somali Calendar

The Somali calendar (Somali: Soomaali tiro ammin) is based on both the solar and lunar calendric systems, and estimated to date back 2,500 years. The calendar was used by farmers and herders to determine the weather and seasons, it helped them in their needs.

The Somali solar calendar is known as Amin-tiris or Taqwiim.

Somali Solar Year

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Linguistics

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Archaeology

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Traditions

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Structure

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Months and Seasons of the Somali Calendar

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Astronomy

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Determining Dirir

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[Jjero]

damn

 

[Netero]

@SultanuuFicaan Why did you delete your post? It was very interesting and relevant.

 

[SultanuuFicaan]

- waqooyi students unveiled this calendar a while back

Do you guys know the actual terms of the days of the week in somali?

@Netero, I was trying to edit this comment but deleted it.

 

[Prince Abubu]

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[--Ajakis Lax Max--]

the day we use somali script and calender. somali nationalism GOALS

 

[Luna]

I read about this before but it never ceases to amaze me. We have so much unknown history and achievements. I can't wait to find out more.

 

[Grant]

Namoratunga is located on the southern fringe of a region that was the ancestral home of pre-historic Somalis. The Macro-Somali groups of Rendille, Elmolo, Daasanac (Galab) and Arbore who have been in the area approximately three thousand years are still located very near to these archaeological sites. About four centuries ago when the Turkana and Samburu peoples expanded to the southern part of the lake, they came into contact with these Macro Somali groups,14 while more Somalis were due east of them.15 More importantly, the ancient Somalis are known to be ‘demolithic’ (people of stone), who have been associated with tireless building of megaliths. This is shown by the tens of thousands of pre-Islamic-built cairns scattered throughout the Somali inhabited territories. The Cairns are known to the Somalis as Taallo Tiirriyaat (Monuments of Tiirri), or Arro-Weelo graves in some localities. Arro weelo, literally meaning ruler of the entire land, refers to a legendary queen in the Tiirri Era. Tirri was a powerful, ancient Somali tribe occupying the half of the country including Harar uplands. The term tiir itself means pillar, so tirri means pillar people. During this same time, another major Somali tribe, Madalle, was creating elaborate stone monuments in the far South (Jubba-Galana region: the vast land southeast of Lake Turkana to the Kismayo-Malindi coast). In addition to other complex earth works, such as flat dams, lime-stone built wells and ruined towns on the coast, the building of the Taallos is attributed to the Madalle-led ancient Somali communities in the region. Madalle literally means people of congregation, which also refers to power and hard work. More interestingly, observations of bodies in cairns indicate similar burial practices indicating that they were built by same people.17 However, as they were basically intended to be funeral, they are not related to astronomical phenomena as far as can be discerned. The evidence suggests that one of the two calendars, Somali and Namoratunga, was the forerunner of the other because of a number of aspects: the Macro Somali groups had been the inhabitants of the region, during what linguistic historians now refer to as the ‘Omo-Tana’ era of Macro-Somali; the Somalis have the most detailed calendar among the Eastern Cushitics; they are builders of megalithic monuments or cairns; the timekeeping system based on ‘seven’ in the Somali culture is also found in Namoratunga, indicating Namoratunga’s connection to the seven-based calendar system that produced the Somali calendar. The two systems, therefore, must be originated from a common cultural aspect or one of them must be derived from the other.

This is from the Archaeology spoiler. In 2,300 BP, the Samaales were still part of the Eastern Cushitic and had not yet branched off as the proto-Sam. That's just 300 BC. Note that this is just southwest of Lake Turkana, where the corridor from Egypt along the Nile, ends. Samaales came from the South, going north. The Darood then returned back south, giving the illusion of a generally southern movement.

 

[-Gantaal-]

- waqooyi students unveiled this calendar a while back

Do you guys know the actual terms of the days of the week in somali?

@Netero, I was trying to edit this comment but deleted it.

Saturday=Sooroga
Sunday=Koobin
Monday=Lammin
Tuesday=Lamatok
Wednesday=Koodar
Thursday=Hakisa
Friday=Hakisa-Bila

 

[Madara x]

Some deep shit right here