• The sexagenary cycle, also known as the stems-and-branches or ganzhi (Chinese: 干支), is a cycle of sixty terms, each corresponding to one year, thus a total...
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    and not Prabhava as currently used. There are some parallels in this sexagenary cycle with the Chinese calendar. The Surya Siddhanta and other Indian classical...
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    Earthly stem) also follows a cycle, each of the elements affect the characteristic of the same Earthly stem (see Sexagenary cycle). However, the Pig is yin...
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    information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch. Timestamp...
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  • concept that a person's destiny or fate can be divined by the two sexagenary cycle characters assigned to their birth year, month, day, and hour. This...
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    the Dog", while also bearing the following elemental sign: In the sexagenary cycle, 2018 (16 February 2018–4 February 2019, and every 60-year multiple...
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    traditional calendar calendars used the sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system's mathematically repeating cycles of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches....
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    traditional calendar calendars used the sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system's mathematically repeating cycles of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.[citation...
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    birth, together with elemental aspects of the animal signs within the sexagenary cycle. Similarly, the year governed by a particular animal sign is supposed...
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    following table shows the 60-year cycle matched up to the Western calendar for the years 1924–2043 (see sexagenary cycle article for years 1924–1983). This...
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  • Social cycle theory Kyklos Sexagenary cycle Dialectic Cliodynamics Asabiyyah Strauss–Howe generational theory Edwin O. Reischauer, "The Dynastic Cycle", in...
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    festivals in China, Vietnam and other influenced countries make use of the sexagenary cycle. The lunar calendar's organization of days names the years, months...
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    Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and...
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    Calendar (redirect from Time cycles)
    and months) are usually, though not necessarily, synchronized with the cycle of the sun or the moon. The most common type of pre-modern calendar was...
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    The Metonic cycle or enneadecaeteris (from Ancient Greek: ἐννεακαιδεκαετηρίς, from ἐννεακαίδεκα, "nineteen") is a period of almost exactly 19 years after...
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  • political cycle Astrology – Mantra – Numerology – Pratītyasamutpāda – Samhain – Sexagenary cycle – Surya Dynastic cycle – Kondratiev wave – Social cycle theory...
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    (8 August 2019). "The Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and the Origin of the Chinese Writing System". The Chinese Sexagenary Cycle and the Ritual Foundations of...
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    start of spring in Japan. Setsubun or Risshun is the beginning of the sexagenary cycle; therefore, by drinking sencha one can enjoy a year of good health...
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    importance of the sixtieth birthday produced by its combination with the sexagenary cycle—had spread throughout the Sinosphere. Japan eliminated their version...
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  • Woodfall (published 1736), p. 146, The most remarkable of these is the Sexagenary or Sexagesimal Scale of Arithmetick, of frequent use among Astronomers...
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    from Wood Rat of the sexagenary cycle system. The year of the stadium's founding, 1924, was the first year kōshi (甲子) in the cycle. The design of the stadium...
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  • 20 to Shiva.[citation needed] Hindu Calendar Panchangam the Chinese sexagenary cycle Bettina Bäumer; Kapila Vatsyayan (1992). Kalātattvakośa: A Lexicon...
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  • contemporary Mali. The Ekagi of Western New Guinea used base 60, and the sexagenary cycle plays a role in Chinese calendar and numerology. From Polish–Lithuanian...
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  • yang and the five elements, and uses a person's birth date in the sexagenary cycle and physical appearance to predict one's fate. Tengenjutsu originated...
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    East Asia, the diamond jubilee coincides with the traditional 60-year sexagenary cycle, which is held in special importance despite not generally being called...
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  • with lunar month, solar year Metonic cycle – 19-year pattern in lunisolar calendars Saros (astronomy) – Cycles used to predict eclipses of the Sun and...
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    The Sothic cycle or Canicular period is a period of 1,461 Egyptian civil years of 365 days each or 1,460 Julian years averaging 365+1⁄4 days each. During...
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    February 18 (February 19 East Asia time). It is also the beginning of a sexagenary cycle. Lichun signifies the beginning of spring in East Asian cultures. Each...
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  • and the position of the night sky. By contrast, Bazi is tied to the sexagenary cycle system of timekeeping, which is often mapped to traditional Chinese...
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    where most seem to have a calendrical shift of exactly two cycles of the sexagenary cycle, or 120 years. Not all records in the Nihon Shoki are consistently...
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