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moon-mother perceptions of ancient times. CYCLES OF NEW MOONS WERE THE
BASIC TIME RECKONING INGREDIENTS FOR LUNAR-SOLAR CALENDARS.
Where Eve represented the feminine side of human order according to lunar observation,
Adam represented the masculine, solar side, according to solar positioning on the hori-
zon. In other words, Adam's male image also implied meaning toward the rising and set-
ting positions of the sun through all four seasons during the year. Clarification of God
resting on the seventh day defines a separation between successive time frames. God
again divides, separates, or is between the light and darkness of the moon. TRANSITION
FROM ONE LUNAR PHASE ENDING TO COMMENCEMENT OF THE NEXT LU-
NAR PHASE WAS THE MOST REVERED UNIT OF TIME MEASUREMENT
KNOWN. God set aside the Sabbath Day as holy. God consecrated the Jewish Shabbat
for all time to come. The sacred Jewish significance of the seven-day week, and the num-
ber seven elsewhere SUPPORT RELIGIOUS OBSERVATION OF THE MOON AS AN
EARLY CALENDAR (Ages of Adam).

Confirmation of the fact that the lunar week goes all the way back to Adam and Eve is
found in The Popular and Critical Bible Encyclopedia --

It is powerfully urged by the believers in a primitive Sabbath, that we find from time im-
memorial the knowledge of a week of 7 days among ALL NATIONS -- Egyptians, Arabi-
ans, Indians -- in a word, all the nations of the East, have in all ages made use of this
week of 7 days, for which it is difficult to account without admitting that this knowledge
was derived from the COMMON ANCESTORS [Adam and Eve] OF THE HUMAN
RACE. Among all early nations the lunar months were the readiest large divisions of
time...(and was divided in 4 weeks), CORRESPONDING (TO) THE PHASES OR
QUARTERS OF THE MOON. In order to connect the reckoning by weeks with the lunar
month, we find that ALL ancient nations observed some peculiar solemnities to mark the
day of the New Moon. Accordingly, in the Mosaic law the same thing was also enjoined
(Numbers 10:10; 28:11, etc.), though it is worthy of remark that, while particular obser-
vances are here enjoined, the idea of celebrating the New Moon in some way is alluded to
as if already familiar to them. In other parts of the Bible, we find the Sabbaths and New
Moons CONTINUALLY SPOKEN OF IN CONJUNCTION; as (Isaiah 1:13, etc.) the di-
vision of time by weeks prevailed all over the East, from the earliest periods among the
Assyrians, Arabs, & Egyptians. It was found among the tribes in the interior of Africa....
The Peruvians counted their months by the moon, their half-months by the increase and
decrease of the moon, AND THE WEEKS BY QUARTERS, without having any particu-
lar names for the Week Days (1904. Vol. 3, p. 1497).

Noah Brings the Sabbath to Mesopotamia

Now we come to Noah. Genesis 6:9 says "Noah was a just man and perfect in his genera-
tions, and Noah WALKED WITH GOD." Amos 3:3 says two cannot WALK TOGETHER unless
they AGREE -- so Noah must have agreed with God about the Sabbath day. In 2 Peter 2:5 we read
that Noah was "a preacher of RIGHTEOUSNESS" and we know that "all thy COMMANDMENTS
are righteousness" (Psalm 119:172). So, therefore, Noah must have preached about the Sabbath,
and also kept it himself since it is one of God's commandments.

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