[Trikaduliana]

I would have thought that astronomical accuracy has actually been a feature of many religious calendars.

Certainly the pre-historic stone circles of Britain are tied to astronomical events and seem to have been a key feature of the religion of the people of that time.

And the religious culture of Egypt was especially astronomical and had developed an advanced science of astronomy which was one of the main reasons for the Alexandrians providing the date of Pascha each year.

The Chinese also seem to have had a very advanced astronomical and religious calendar.

The idea, as I have heard from some Byzantines, that heaven runs on the 'Julian clock' seems completely alien to the purpose and thinking of the Fathers of the time of Nicaea. Indeed it displays a certain cultural chauvinism which ignores the fact that were there to be a 'divine' calendar then it would be Hebrew not Byzantine.

What was important to them was a unity of celebration and a reasonably accurate astronomical calendar.

Some variant of the New or Revised calendar achieves both of these.

Peter