The process was a bit idiosyncratic. I begun with a simple Pythagorean assumption that 12 was a more complete number than 7, so it would be a better number of days in the week. From that, I begun to build the calendar just to see where it would take me.
https://twitter.com/JYMGJurista/status/1415185308770050049
Since giving each month an equal number of days would've meant splitting some weeks in half between the months, I followed the Pythagorean logic of identifying the dyad with the feminine and the triad with the masculine, so goddess months have two weeks and god months have three.
Thus goddess months have 24 days, which brought to its digital root (DR), 2 + 4, is 6. God months have 36 days, its DR 9. Basically 6 is a divine generative number while 9 is its completion because the primordial divine triad generates via serial magnitudes of itself.
Thus 3 to 3 makes 6, 3 to 6 makes 9, and 3 to 9 makes 12, and the DR of 12 is 3. If you wanted to continue, 3 to 12 is 15, its DR 6; 3 to 15 is 18, its DR 9. The pattern repeats. 6 leads generation towards perfection, and 9 is generation's perfection, and 12 its reversion to 3.
Hence 12's importance as being this whole cycle expressed in number: generation > completion > reversion. The months have traditional associations, but I have dedicated each month to a god by order of this process to make the calendar year a form of emulation of the cycles.
As 12 day weeks across 12 months makes 360 days, this left 5 days in normal years and 6 days when the intercalary day was added every 4 years. In considering this, it only became natural to view these extra days that occur outside the 360 day 'circular year' with importance.
The Saturnalia then is a kind of five day "month" and its focus is upon a ritualistic harmonisation of the soul with our place in the cosmic, emphasising our presence within the cosmos as a perfecting ritual of the soul, with the three Saturnalias preparing for the Soteria.
The Soteria includes the winter solstice as its final day, falling instead on the intercalary day rather than the first day of the next year. The Soteria celebrates the soul's reversion to divinity after having purified and perfected itself the prior three Saturnalias.
Both the Soteria and Saturnalias offers most importantly honours and worship to the relevant gods. The Saturnalia traditionally honoured Saturn, but this could be widened to honour generative, purifying, and perfecting deities across the three Saturnalias.
The Soteria then honours the gods which give us our salvation, gods that raise us into the pure presence of the divine and enable apotheosis. It is the completion of the 4-year calendar cycle and contains the rebirth (solstice) within it, rather than falling short.
The day numbers are important too: 5 days of Saturnalia indicate entry into generation, 5 a reference to Man comprised of all 5 cosmic elements. When 1 to 5 is added by serial addition (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5), it makes 15, the DR of which is 6, indicating generation and the Soteria.
6 days of Soteria refer to the process of completing generation. It is 6 because it is still cyclical (it recurring every 4 years), but the esoteric value of 6 is in its serial addition from 1 to 6, which is 21, the DR of which is 3. Hence Soteria celebrates reversion to 3 via 6.
The 6th intercalary day falling on the winter solstice would be treated as the most holy day, the day of perfection, completion, liberation, and salvation, upon which all the salvific gods would be honoured and celebrated.
Since the winter solstice is celebrated within the year of the Soteria twice (at the beginning and at the end), the following calendar year which begins the next 4-year cycle has no winter solstice.
This symbolises both the soul's salvific overcoming of the cosmic cyclical rebirth, but also the initial purifying embodiment into cosmos without salvific recourse to the gods.
And as I indicated earlier, the months are dedicated to gods according to this cycle. Thus, from Jupiter through Juno through Neptune, and so on, is the cyclical process of generation, completion, and reversion realised, ending with the theurgic months of Saturnalia or Soteria.
All the above referring to the calendar I put together here:
https://twitter.com/Apotheiite/status/1414923940028239877
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