Thread by @Aabhas24

1/n Read and spread this thread on #NewYear2022

Say, I ask you what year we just marched in yesterday?

You would say, "2022."
Then I ask what measure does this number represent?
You would say, "AD or CE".

So what do they mean?

2/n According to the @CambridgeWords

AD (Anno Domini)=a Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the Lord", the full form of the abbreviation AD, which is used when referring to a year after Jesus Christ was born

3/n CE (Common Era)=the period from the birth of Jesus Christ, when the Christian calendar starts counting years as AD

SO basically it is the "year of Jesus or year of Christianity".

4/n And every-time we say the year to be 2022 etc etc we are giving reference to the Birth of Jesus Christ.

The experts in field of Geology, Genetics, Archaeology etc are using terms like 5kbp, ie five thousand years before present etc etc. Historians should also try to adopt.

5/n As far as January 1 is concerned, it was observed as the date for beginning of New Year by the Pagan Roman's council taking up office 2.174kbp (ie 153 BC/before Christ).

Source: Illustrated Introduction to Latin Epigraphy by Arthur E. Gordon

6/n So matter of both January 1 & AD, CE, BC, BCE are way different and opposition to observe former as New Year is not opposing imposition of Christian, rather Roman Pagan idea.

It is untrue that Jan 1 is New Year for Gregorian Calendar introduced by Pope Gregory XIII.

7/n You must note that the etymology of word January tells us that it comes from the Pagan God "Janus."

He was the god of initiations, openings/gates, transitions, time, duality, passages, doorways, frames, & endings too.

8/n Here is an image of Janus.

This is a print from L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures (Band 1,1) with different images of Janus by Bernard de Montfaucon.

We get info about Janus from De Civitate Dei (Book VII) by Augustine where he cites Varro.

9/n As per "Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages" by Michiel de Vaan:

"The name of the god Iānus, meaning in Latin 'arched passage, doorway', comes from Proto-Italic *iānu ('door'). It is also seems related with Sanskrit yāti ('to go, travel').

10/n He further states that it also relates to Lithuanian jóti ('to go, ride'), or Serbo-Croatian jàhati ('to ride').

I have come to a conclusion that certainly the people in Greece, and elsewhere up west & North-West of Bharat were the RigVaidik people only.

11/n This has been well established by the works of #ShrikantTalageri ji.

I'm sharing one of his blogs which gives some serious ideas about the RigVaidik tribes and NW migration talageri.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-id…