Ales Stenar sun year calendar with the nordic Zodiak

On the schematic outline of Ales stenar solar calendar we can follow the sunīs most important rises and sets by the Ales stenar calendarīs horizon, over and on the calendarīs 32 marked sunrocks, which correspond to a dualistic day- and seasonbound opposing relationships. The differences between the opposing sunrockīs calendartime are always 6 months and 12 (day)hours. One has divided the solar year into 12 solar months with 30 days in everyh fourth year in the month on the sungod.

In that way Ales stenar solar year calendar corresponds to the calendar with which the old Egyptians calculated their time 4000-5000 years ago, but contrary to this the Ale with its firmly founded sunrocks was completely sunbound. The ancient Zodiacīs star constellations also correspond to the Ales stenar calendar. The turn of the monts are completely identical to the monthly times for the sunīs seeming entrance into the different star constellations during a solar year.

In these star constellations (the Zodiac), the leading gods of the Babylonian starwatcherswere belived to have their dwellings, and these beliefs were probably also shared by the people in Scandianvia. All of the nordic numbersymbolic star constellation mythology (according to the Edda poem "Grimnismal"), is also represented in the Ales stenar calendar. And furthermore: The well-known icelandic solar year calendar from the Viking Age also entirely corresponds to the Ales stenar calendar, which clearly shows that the nordic chronology has ancient traditions.

The Vikingsīsolar calendar began, just like the Ales stenar calendar, at the time of the winter solstice, and was divided into so called "räppor", which counted 4x13 weeks with 90 days in each "räppa". In the third "räppaīs" first solar month (June-July), one added 4-6 days in the same way as in the Ales stenar calendar, 4-6 days in order no to let the solar year slip away. Outside the frames of the real solar year the Vikings divided the calendar year in the same way as the Ales stenar astronomers and the Babylonians did, in two yearhalves, that is, in 6 wintermonths (October-April) and 6 summermonths (April-October).

The actual point of time for the sunīs rises and sets, over and on the Ales stenar calendarīs sunrocks, are in the following list of months always ca 4 minuters ahead of the time that the Swedish almanac shos. The reason for this is that Alsīsolar year calendar is situated in a timemeridian more to the east than that of the horizon of Lund. This means for example that the sunrise by teh turn of the month on the 23/1 at 8.15 over sunrock 3 in the prehistoric Ales stenar calendar corresponds to 8.19 in the Swedish almanac (1995).

The obervations and photodocumentations are performed in the absolute center of the solar year calendar (see the book).