The Famous Bulgarians: The Bulgarian Ancestors
Achievement unlocked: Bulgarian ancestors most accurately define time
“Some of the most civilized ancient peoples like the Jews, the Greeks, the Romans and the Armenians used the calendars of other, older civilizations – the Assyrians, the Babylonians, the Egyptians and the Persians. And this makes the fact that the ancient Bulgarians had a calendar of their own all the more significant. Today, one of the unique creations of humankind – the ancient Bulgarian calendar – is considered by UNESCO to be the most accurate calendar known to man.”
Clearly mathematics is in our blood… us Bulgarians, I mean… except I’m deliberately and completely excluding myself from the group of people I’m talking about. Me and maths, we’ve never seen eye to eye. Anyway – as far as ancient calendars go – this one is pretty darn cool-looking, too!
“The ancient Bulgarian calendar was circular in shape, and inside the circle, there were 12 constellations, named after animals – a rooster, a dog, a boar, a mouse, a snow lion, a rabbit, a dragon, a snake, a horse, a sheep and a monkey. The calendar was used to follow the movement of the sun but most of all of Jupiter, which was especially revered by Bulgarians. They called Jupiter Yankul – the master of time and it was depicted as a circle with three flames. Besides the names of these constellations, the calendar also makes mention of the ancient Bulgarian numerals. This is an extremely old system of counting and a very accurate way of rounding off numbers, which shows that ancient Bulgarians had a certain level of mathematical knowledge, supplementing their knowledge of astronomy.”
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