User talk:Sloeeyes

June 2018
Welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions, but in one of your recent edits to Nakshatra, it appears that you have added original research, which is against Wikipedia's policies. Original research refers to material—such as facts, allegations, ideas, and personal experiences—for which no reliable, published sources exist; it also encompasses combining published sources in a way to imply something that none of them explicitly say. Please be prepared to cite a reliable source for all of your contributions. Thank you. Yamaguchi先生 (talk) 19:03, 25 June 2018 (UTC)

Yamaguchi. This see above is my first contribution. In India today astrologers mostly use 27 divisions of the Zodiac. In ancient India 28 were counted,and 28 are still used in China, Japan, Korea and other countries and traditions. The 27 nakshatras are linked to the 27.3 days in the sidereal lunar cycle of the modern calendar. In Vedic India (see Wikipedia, Ancient India 360 day year) a calendar of 360 days was recognised with 12 months of 30 days. The origin of the Vedic and Chinese etc list of 28 lunar mansions has remained a mystery for more than two thousand years. But if we calculate the length of the sidereal cycle using the Vedic inputs for days and months we get 360/13 = 27.7 days. This is why 28 nakshatras or Hui were identified originally. This resolves the mystery of the earlier list of 28 divisions of the lunar Zodiac and is of fundamental importance for ancient oriental astronomy and for Eastern astrology. *Hopefully these details can be discussed by other contributors.* I can try to include more references in support but the proposal that the 28 lunar mansions must relate to the 28 (or 27.69) days of the sidereal month for the Vedic astronomical calendar. The question why so many different cultures just recognised an 'ideal year' of 360 days is a separate issue but this Vedic year with 12 months of 30 days provided the figures for their calculation that they should have 28 divisions along their lunar zodiac. Modern experts wrongly presume that in Vedic times and before the 365 day year was acknowledged that ancient astronomers would have used a modern calendar and modern measures to calculate a the sidereal lunar cycle.