From: cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) Subject: Re: Caucasoid Turks/Bulgars Date: 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <36f2a085.613800558@news.yale.edu> References: <369E3BE1.5C45@sbu.ac.uk> <77li2j$qi0$1@whisper.globalserve.net> <369F52FE.2B6@sbu.ac.uk> <77rc86$auj$1@brokaw.wa.com> <36A444B3.F3B70F1C@alum.mit.edu.-> <7827sb$269$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36A52D70.9E372DD2@alum.mit.edu.-> <36A556AB.9927BD29@montclair.edu> <36a63533.58309714@news.yale.edu> <7866ud$i9m$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <36cdb21e.883120019@news.wxs.nl> <36A7FCC8.79790A6B@earthlink.net> <36d77e23.1000882888@news.wxs.nl> <36a8d455.81661202@news.yale.edu> <78pl3c$84o@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b0dc2f.3434839@news.yale.edu> <78v30o$vl6@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36b34d7c.60430113@news.yale.edu> <794e84$4iq@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <3744d12a.1873763068@news.wxs.nl> <796m95$eq2@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <375c0ea6.1954957123@news.wxs.nl> <79fo99$qkl@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36effb24.440413110@news.yale.edu> <7cpddg$39q@cpca3.uea.ac.uk> <36f15786.251902035@news.yale.edu> <36f29d1f.612930277@news.yale.edu> Organization: Yale University Newsgroups: sci.archaeology,sci.anthropology,sci.lang On Fri, 19 Mar 1999 19:05:34 GMT, cluster.user@yale.edu (Cluster User) wrote: >> >>>Next, Dobrev analyses some composite names of elamite kings (the transcription >>>probably will differ from the english one): > >these are about two millenia before the saka calender, based on the >apparent position of jupiter. now since the apparent position of the >sun shifts with precession (a motion of the earth), I assume that the >apparent poistion of jupiter does too. now it would indeed be >unreasonable to expect their calenders to be following the apparent >position of jupiter two millenia *later*. the chinese calender still >continues because people have forgotten about it, just as contemporary >(Ican't call it "modern") horoscopes depend on the apparent position >of the sun in babylonian times (such things like the "age of aquarius" >refer to the precession phenomenon). not to mention the fact that jupiter's cycle isn't exactly 12 years, discrepancies would accumulate. > >>>