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The seventh day is also a day illuminated by the Sun [when the crescent of the Moon is
illuminated].....All things were made by sevens in the starry heaven; and go around in cir-
cles in all the years succeeding one another [again, implies a sequence of lunar quar-
ters]. (Ibid.).

Like the ancient lunar calendars, the Hellenistic calendar counts days from sunset to sunset
and not from sunrise to sunrise or midnight to midnight. To the ancients in Athens, Jerusalem and
Babylon, each new month began with the appearance of the young crescent moon in the evening sky
and not when the moon was dark, i.e. the new moon. This evening was celebrated with the lighting
of torches and bonfires, to announce to all in the countryside that the new month had officially be-
gun. The second day of the month began on the following evening and the third day began on the
third evening.

According to Janet and Stewart Farrar in The Witches' Goddess, "The modern use of
seven day weeks also stems from the ancient lunar calendar. The first of every lunar month was
marked as the first day of a new week and a Sabbath was celebrated every seventh day to mark
the 4 quarters of the moon. The last week was followed by the days of the dark moon when the
goddess was held to be menstruating and so an extended Sabbath was observed until the waxing
crescent moon reappeared and the new month began" (Phoenix Publishing, pp. 24-25, p.106).

Abraham Goes to Canaan

Abraham, the tenth generation from Noah through Shem, was born in the Chaldean city of
Ur -- a thriving metropolis located in the land of Shinar, near the present junction of the Euphrates
and Tigris rivers in Iraq. Ur of the Chaldees was about 150 miles southeast of Nimrod's onetime
royal city of Babel, or Babylon, notorious for its unfinished Tower of babel.

The Chaldean civilization, with its advanced mathematics and astronomy, has always baf-
fled the archaeologists. However, this phenomena can easily be explained as resulting from an in-
flux of people from the Semitic branch of the family of Noah, after the Flood. In this country of the
ancient Chaldees, the descendants of Shem, who was the father of the children of Heber (Ibiri,
Abiri, or Hebrews), settled after the Flood.

"This," writes E. Raymond Capt, "would explain the famous astrology of the Chaldeans.
The word 'astrology' is, in fact, synonymous with wisdom. The early Chaldean priests were genu-
ine astronomers. They knew the accurate value of the Solar year, divided the day into 24 hours,
and the circle into 360 degrees" (Stonehenge and Druidism. Thousand Oaks: Artisan Sales,
1979. P. 63). They also kept a lunar month with weeks based on the phases of the moon, and were
able to calculate eclipses and recognize comets. They also discovered that the sun was "spotted."

"They knew," continues Capt, "the 12 signs of the Zodiac and from its constellations devel-
oped their famous 'Astrology.' The existence of certain values connected with the Procession of the
Equinoxes, found in their records, indicate they had rules and methods of calculation, but did not
know the principles that formed the basis of their calculations" (ibid.) This strongly suggests that
they inherited their knowledge of astronomy from the descendants of Noah.

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