gate 1
furthest south — the winter gate
the sun goes out of it in the ninth and tenth months; the day is at its shortest and the night at its longest.
months: 9 · 10
1 Enoch 72:23-27
the six gates to enoch before the flood
Before the flood, Uriel led Enoch out and showed him the doors of heaven. The sun does not wander. It leaves through one of six gates in the east and enters through the gate facing it in the west, and it changes gate once a month — climbing north until the longest day, falling south until the shortest, and back again. Twelve months, six gates, one circuit, three hundred and sixty-four days. Nothing in it is left to chance, and nothing in it needs a priest to declare it.
This is the cosmology the 𐤔öņðęřlāńÐ clock stands on: a year you can count from the sky alone. Day and night are measured in eighteen parts. At the two equinoxes they stand nine and nine. Every gate north adds a part to the day and takes one from the night; every gate south does the reverse. The gates are the reason the year never drifts and never needs correcting — and the reason a calendar that does need correcting is a made thing.
the circuit of the sun · simulation
live · where the sun stands now
gate 4 of 6
month 1 · I
the spring equinox — the year opens
day · 9 partseighteen partsnight · 9 parts
1 Enoch 72:6-9
the six gates
gate 2
south of the middle
the sun goes out of it in the eighth and eleventh months, on the way down and on the way back.
months: 8 · 11
1 Enoch 72:20-22, 72:28-30
gate 3
just south of the middle
the sun goes out of it in the seventh and twelfth months; at the seventh the day and the night are equal.
months: 7 · 12
1 Enoch 72:19, 72:31-32
gate 4
the middle gate — the equinox stands here
the sun goes out of it in the first and sixth months; the year opens here, day and night nine parts each.
months: 1 · 6
1 Enoch 72:6-9, 72:16-18
gate 5
north of the middle
the sun goes out of it in the second and fifth months, climbing and descending.
months: 2 · 5
1 Enoch 72:10-12, 72:15
gate 6
furthest north — the summer gate
the sun goes out of it in the third and fourth months; the day is at its longest and the night at its shortest.
months: 3 · 4
1 Enoch 72:13-14
the year, gate by gate
- month 1 · I
- gate 4
- day 9 / night 9
- first season · spring — the spring equinox — the year opens
- month 2 · II
- gate 5
- day 10 / night 8
- first season · spring — the sun climbs northward
- month 3 · III
- gate 6
- day 11 / night 7
- first season · spring — a day of remembrance closes this month
- month 4 · IV
- gate 6
- day 12 / night 6
- second season · summer — the summer solstice — the longest day
- month 5 · V
- gate 5
- day 11 / night 7
- second season · summer — the sun turns back south
- month 6 · VI
- gate 4
- day 10 / night 8
- second season · summer — a day of remembrance closes this month
- month 7 · VII
- gate 3
- day 9 / night 9
- third season · autumn — the autumn equinox — day and night stand level
- month 8 · VIII
- gate 2
- day 8 / night 10
- third season · autumn — the nights take the longer half
- month 9 · IX
- gate 1
- day 7 / night 11
- third season · autumn — a day of remembrance closes this month
- month 10 · X
- gate 1
- day 6 / night 12
- fourth season · winter — the winter solstice — the shortest day
- month 11 · XI
- gate 2
- day 7 / night 11
- fourth season · winter — the sun begins its return
- month 12 · XII
- gate 3
- day 8 / night 10
- fourth season · winter — a day of remembrance closes the year
what it means
Four days of the year belong to no month. They close the third, sixth, ninth and twelfth months, and they are called days of remembrance. Add them to twelve months of thirty and the year comes to three hundred and sixty-four — exactly fifty-two weeks. Every date falls on the same weekday forever. No feast can ever land on a sabbath by accident.
That is the claim the six gates make: the order was given, not invented, and the flood did not erase it. Whoever keeps the gates keeps a year that no authority has to announce. In 𐤔öņðęřlāńÐ this is the source side of the clock — Ð𐤔 — and everything measured against a made month sits on the other side.
cosmological reel · visual witness
A moving witness of the circuit — the sun stepping its six doors through one whole year — belongs here beside the simulation.
awaiting the witness