Kemet / Afrikan Royal Calendar English eBook

Kemet means black and refers to the land of Afrikan people. We call this calendar the royal calendar because it was created before the colonial era when Afrika was ruled by kingdoms. Our “Zep Tepi” the first time, is calculated from the first establishment of the oldest stone calendar called “Inzalo Yelanga” as told by Babu Credo Mutwa, commonly known today as the Adam’s calendar in Mpumalanga South Africa and the oldest written one called the Dendera calendar in Egypt/Ancient Kemet. The first calendar was based on the movement of the Moon around planet Earth. The Moon is the fastest celestial body orbiting our planet. It takes 28 days for the Moon to complete its cycle around our Earth. From New Moon to Full Moon is fourteen days and from full Moon to New Moon is Fourteen days. Thirteen of such revolutions completed the Afrikan year. The lunar cycle was also used for agricultural purposes, by timing the periods for planting and harvesting, and to assist the king on timing the yearly sacred rituals. The Moon cycle proved to be too erratic to predict with certainty about its position. It was then decided to also compute our movement around the Sun, that resulted in a year comprising of 12 months of 30 days, making a year of 360 days. The other five days were assigned as “birth” days of our first spiritual ancestors Asar/Osiris, Auset/Isis, Heru/Horus, Sete/Set, and Nebt Hert/Nephtys. One revolution of our planet around the Sun makes one day of 24hrs (12hrs from sunrise to sunset and 12hrs from sunset to sunrise). The Solar year in the southern hemisphere begins in September on the day of the spring equinox and ends in August. It is comprised of four seasons; summer, winter, and their intermediaries spring and autumn. The solar transition through the imaginary line of the equator starts on 21-23 September as the Sun completes its journey from the northern hemisphere.