IGBO CALENDAR
IGBO CALENDAR (IGU IZU, ONWA N AFO IGBO) Our lives are bound up with the calendar. We use it to plan our future: the annual round of work, meetings, appointments, holidays, birthdays and all of the other events in life, including events of the coming year: public holidays, religious festivals, weekends, the waxing and waning of the moon. The calendar helps us to look back, too. The historian looks back to 1945 or 1812 or 1066. They seem to be just numbers, but we know instinctively that they are more than that, for each event, public or personal, great or small, has a day and a month and a year which fixes its place in time. Our calendar can trace its roots back over 6,000 years to ancient Egypt. Its story features Julius Caesar, the council of Nicaea (which gave us the Nicene Creed), a small Russian monk called Denis the Venerable Bede and Pope Gregory XIII. JULIAN CALENDAR: The Julian calendar was a calendar system based on 365.25 day year, put in place in 46BC by Roman Emperor,...