Mastodawn

If you go and read the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, you'll find that there the "moon" is not an astronomical one. As mentioned, the Hebrew calendar began using lookup tables about 16 centuries ago. It had all been tables for centuries by 1750.

The 1750 Act laid out tables for calculating, using a system of 'Dominical letters' and 'Golden numbers', the date of Easter.

Basically, there's a notional 'full moon' here that is calculated, not observed by looking at Luna. Hence how the drafters of the Act were able to construct tables that went up to the year 2199.

https://legislation.gov.uk/apgb/Geo2/24/23/section/6

#Passover #Pascha #Nisan #astronomy #UKLaw #Easter

Calendar (New Style) Act 1750

An Act for regulating the Commencement of the Year, and for correcting the Calendar now in use.

JdeBP 42m ago

The 1750 #UKLaw rule for calculating the date of #Easter breaks down quite simply.

The New Testament account is that Jesus rose from the dead on the day after the Sabbath, i.e. the Sunday (the Sabbath being Saturday), that followed Passover.

So what's the date of #Passover? It's the fourteenth day of Nisan, which is the first (ecclesiastical) month of the Hebrew luni-solar calendar.

Hebrew calendar months (nominally) begin at the new moon, so the 14th day is (approximately) the time of the full moon.

So when does #Nisan start? It has all been done with tables for about 16 centuries, but the underlying aim was to tie it to the vernal equinox.

Hence expressing all of this with the religions taken out: Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox.

And because the Gregorian Calendar aimed to stabilize the dates of the equinoxes, taking even some of the #astronomy out of the rule gets this last part turned into "after the 21st of March".

#Pascha

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hufnagel 🏳️‍🌈 🐧🔆1d ago

@Bundesregierung
Vermutlich wäre ein Infostand sinnvoll, an dem über die ganzen Themen aufgeklärt wird bei denen die Protagonisten unserer Regierung das Volk beleidigt, für Dumm verkauft und auf Einheit und Demokratie rumtrampelt.
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Stephen Hayes 1d ago

It's that time of year again.
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#Easter #Pascha

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Hans Kastell Jan 29

Ganz anders in #usa ,da müssen die Achtklässler schon aktiv #propaganda für das #regime machen, um gute Noten zu bekommen und von Papa #König geliebt zu werden. Manche #Väter #Patriarchen sind schwer zufrieden zu stellen, sie haben Verfolgungswahn, brauchen ständig Bestätigung. Kalkulierte #Freiheiten gewähren sie als Test, ob man sie nicht ausnutzt; man ist frei den #Pascha zu bebauchpinseln... Arme Schweine, die Amis da im Westen; ihr #System ein einziger #fake

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JdeBP Dec 6

@rickscully @keefeglise

On the first Monday after Passover, perhaps? That would align the business year with the ISO8601 week.

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Ssaman Mardi Nov 19

Friedrich Merz ist ein Pascha ohne Benimm.

Er ist damit kein Einzelfall, sondern steht symptomatisch für Millionen Boomer, die von ihren Nazi-Großeltern weder Anstand noch Reue gelernt haben.

Clanartige Parallelgesellschaften wie diese müssen endlich aufgebrochen werden.

https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2025-11/bundeskanzler-friedrich-merz-belem-brasilien-entschuldigung

#Merz #Boomer #Einzelfall #Clan #Parallelgesellschaft #Pascha

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JdeBP Nov 4

@bytebro

More than a thousand, for some degree of "worked" if we ignore people using different calendars's ideas of when the vernal equinox was.

And it is mostly just ordinary #astronomy. Three-body astronomy, but basically just luni-solar calculation.

You only really get into religion when you start asking why a mass-slaughter of animals and humans had to be celebrated at regular multiple lunar month intervals for millennia.

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