Editing 360-day calendar (section)

==Ancient Calendars==

Ancient calendars around the world initially used a 360-day calendar.<ref>{{Cite web|title=An Original 360-Day Year|url=https://360dayyear.com/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=360dayyear.com}}</ref>

===Rome===

According to [[Parallel Lives|Plutarch's Parallel Lives]] Romans initially used a [[Roman calendar|calendar]] which had 360 days, with varying length of months.<ref name="Plutarch_Numa*">{{cite web |last1=Plutarch |title=Life of Numa |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Numa*.html#ref:calendar |publisher=The University of Chicago}}</ref> However, [[Saturnalia (Macrobius)|Macrobius' Saturnalia]] and [[Censorinus]]' The Birthday Book, claim that the original Roman calendar had 304 days split into 10 months. <ref>{{Cite book |last=Censorinus |first=Jacques Mangeart |url=http://archive.org/details/livredecensorin00manggoog |title=Livre de Censorinus sur le jour natal |date=1843 |publisher=C. L. F. Panckoucke |others=University of Michigan |language=French}}</ref>

===India===

The [[Rigveda|Rig Veda]] describes a calendar with twelve months and 360 days.<ref>{{cite book|last1=B.G.|first1=Sidharth|title=The Celestial Key to the Vedas|date=1999|page=86|publisher=Inner Traditions / Bear & Co |isbn=9780892817535|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWZ0PmhGf9gC&pg=PA86}}</ref>

===Mesoamerica===

In the [[Mesoamerican Long Count calendar|Mayan Long Count Calendar]], the equivalent of the year, the tun, was 360 days.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://maya.nmai.si.edu/calendar/maya-calendar-converter |title=Maya Calendar Converter |work=Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian |year=2015 |access-date=September 10, 2015}}</ref>

===Egypt===
Ancient Egyptians also used a [[Egyptian calendar|360-day calendar]]. One myth tells of how the extra 5 days were added.

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A long time ago, [[Ra]], who was god of the sun, ruled the earth. During this time, he heard of a prophecy that [[Nut (goddess)|Nut]], the sky goddess, would give birth to a son who would depose him. Therefore Ra cast a spell to the effect that Nut could not give birth on any day of the year, which was then itself composed of precisely 360 days. To help Nut to counter this spell, the wisdom god [[Thoth]] devised a plan.

Thoth went to the moon god [[Khonsu]] and asked that he play a game known as [[Senet]], requesting that they play for the very light of the moon itself. Feeling confident that he would win, Khonsu agreed. However, in the course of playing he lost the game several times in succession, such that Thoth ended up winning from the moon a substantial measure of its light, equal to about five days.

With this in hand, Thoth then took this extra time, and gave it to Nut. In doing so this had the effect of increasing the earth’s number of days per year, allowing Nut to give birth to a succession of children; one upon each of the extra 5 days that were added to the original 360. And as for the moon, losing its light had quite an effect upon it, for it became weaker and smaller in the sky. Being forced to hide itself periodically to recuperate; it could only show itself fully for a short period of time before having to disappear to regain its strength.}}

<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss7XE2lkeow  |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211222/ss7XE2lkeow |archive-date=2021-12-22 |url-status=live| title=Earth's Original 360-Day Year and Calendar | work=360dayyear.com | access-date=31 January 2019 | year=2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.ancient-world-mysteries.com/360-days-earth-year.html |title=An 'Ideal' Earth Year of 360 Days?
|work=Keith Hunter, Ancient World Mysteries |year=2015 |access-date=31 January 2019}}</ref>