Babylonian Flood Story

Sources | Babylonian Flood Tale

Over the four week period in 2017 I took on a task of retelling the story of the Babylonian Flood. There are three fragmentary stories, the most famous of which is embedded within the myth of Gilgamesh, but their significance is great because they hold voices from the ancient past, further back than the Greeks of Homer, the Tanakh of …

What is Time? The Julian Calendar. These Fantastic Worlds

What is Time? Julian Calendar

The Julian calendar was altered and misunderstood, but ultimately became the basis for all subsequent records of time until 1582. What is Time? Julian Calendar, the a new blog from These Fantastic Worlds.

What is Time? Julian Calendar. Jake Jackson's These Fantastic Worlds

What is Time? Ancient Calendars

Every ancient culture made accurate measurements of celestial motion, but they had a range of different solutions to the conflict between the lunar and solar year.