Spirit Whirled: Terminalia

By Dylan Saccoccio

Finally, the Holy Sailors ventured beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, found the Azores, and then landed on the shores of America. The wonders were vast and the peoples diverse. Had they rediscovered Atlantis? By the time the Spanish arrived, there were bearded tribes, depictions of men in turbans, “Black Indians” engaged in hostilities with the “Natives,” and “White Indians” whose language had affinity to that of the ancient Britons. There existed colossal temples and megalithic stones with similar architecture as those found in Egypt, Greece, Italy, and Asia, while the inhabitants of the regions hadn’t discovered how to make tools strong enough to work the stone nor had they pulley systems or other beasts of burden to move the megaliths. But the Americans possessed something that was fatal to the authority and claims of the Old World’s religious institutions, a threat so great that the Inquisition chose to destroy them at the behest of the Church and the monarchs of Spain. When you’re ready, embark on the journey of Terminalia.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dylan Michael Saccoccio
• Release date: Feb 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9798374347951

Dylan Saccoccio

Ancient History • Astrotheology • Language MasteryMy work will save you thousands of hours and millions of dollars (should you be an entrepreneur) so you can learn the system of priestcraft that governs this world without sacrificing your health, your mental well-being, and the best years of your life trying to figure it out on your own. Not only will you become unhexable, if you do the work in Get Mad or Get Realistic, you will dial in your physique and become top-shelf. Only the strong survive.

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Spirit Whirled: Terminalia

DYLAN SACCOCCIO

Copyright © 2022 Dylan Michael Saccoccio

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DEDICATION

Reverend Robert Taylor. Archbishop Richard Trench. Alvin Boyd Kuhn. Morgan Kavanagh. Thomas Burgoyne. Godfrey Higgins. Alexander Hislop. Frederic Portal. I’ll need a stiff drink and a fine cigar after this life. Make sure they’re ready for me. Y los Guapos de Mexico: esto es para todos ustedes. Pero yo soy el Guapo de Guapos y el Chingón del Oculto.

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Philaletheans

Script of the Sun

Highland and Darien

Of The Devil

American Rites

American Language and Religion

The Celestial Empire

Dupes of Their Own Deception

The Farrago of History and Myth

The Most Prolific Forgers

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Mom, Ric & Deb, Chance Garton, Patrick Daly, Rob Edward, Corvus Thrice Seven, Jason Lindgren, Rose777, Cult of Conspiracy, The Lady Palace Podcast, Anchor Bear, and all the others who contributed in some way to the podcasts who give me a voice. Without you, no one would know about my work and I am grateful you take time out of your life to produce shows that help give my work an audience

1 Philaletheans

The first book of this series was titled The Deaf Phoenicians, a play on the word definitions, created by Russell Pine. The first chapter of Rev. Robert Taylor’s The Diegesis was called Definitions. To quote my friend Crow, words either mean something or they don’t. Rev. Taylor’s undivided aim was to set forth Truth, and nothing else but Truth. On Feb. 19, 1829, he wrote, as a prisoner in Oakham Gaol, unjustly imprisoned for blasphemy, "The property of Truth is not, surely, to wait till men are in right frames of mind to receive it, but to find them wrong, and to set them right; to find them ignorant, and to make them wise; not created by the mind, but itself the mind’s creator; it is the sovereign that ascends the throne, and not the throne that makes the sovereign; where it reigns not, right dispositions cannot be found, and where it reigns, they cannot be wanting.

"The highest honour we can pay to Truth, is to shew our confidence in it, and our desire to have it sifted and analyzed, by how rough a process soever; as being well assured that it is that alone that can abide all tests, and which, like the genuine gold, will come out all the purer from the fiercer fire.

"While there are bad-hearted men in the world, and those who wish to make falsehood pass for Truth, they will ever discover themselves and their counsel, by their impatience of contradiction, their hatred of those who differ from them, their wish to suppress inquiry, and their bitter resentment, when what they call Truth has not been handled with the delicacy and niceness, which it was never any thing else but falsehood that required or needed."

Consider the words of Archbishop Trench, who was responsible for a great deal of the learning and teaching I’ve done, Language, being ever in flux and flow, and, for nations to which letters are still strange, existing only for the ear and as a sound, we might beforehand expect would prove the least trustworthy of all vehicles whereby the knowledge of the past has reached our present; that one which would most certainly betray its charge. In actual fact it has not proved so at all. It is the main, oftentimes the only, connecting link between the two, an ark riding above the water-floods that have swept away or submerged every other landmark and memorial of bygone ages and vanished generations of men.

For the smallest exchanges, people preferred copper to silver. For most common exchanges, people preferred to use silver. For extensive dealings and costly transactions, people preferred to use gold. But in long and expensive journeys, people preferred to turn in their gold for bills of exchange or circular notes. This is how paper money originated. So long as there is something of value backing it, then it works. Paper without backing is worthless. Likewise, cryptocurrency without backing is worthless. But we often forget the most exchanged currency that ever has, and ever will, exist: it is the ability to speak to each other. A man can add more value to your life through communication than you can derive from all the material merchandise in the world. This is the significance of the solar deities, these gods of eloquence, communication, letters, books, alphabets, and wisdom.

I shall give you yet another of the priests’ tools for your research. Roman bishops used crests, seals, ciphers, monograms, and sigillum. Contemplate crests and Chrestians. For example, Bishop Saccoccio would be X Saccoccio. In ancient languages, without capitals or spaces, it’d be xsaccoccio. This is why there are bizarre names in mythology, so take away the first letter when decoding them as I did in A Godsacre for Winds of the Soul with Prometheus. Rome-Theos is revealed, the Strong God, or High God (Rama-Theos). In the title page of a Latin Vulgate, the sacred name (nomen sacrum) of Christ, ΧΡΣ or CHRS, is written under the astrological symbol of Libra in the center of a glory, or sun, and it is on the breast of the Pope, the Vicar of Christ. The symbol of Libra is the sun crossing over, or being crucified, on the equinox. ΧΡΣ, or Chrs, is cross. If we drop the chi (Χ; ch), RS (ΡΣ) remains. Christ, or RS, would be Ras, or Wisdom, for indeed he is the Logos and the Word, and by Wisdom the goddesses, or wandering luminaries, formed the world. Ras and arche mean top, or head. RS, or Ras, is the root of the Etruscans, the Rasenna. The Turks called the Greeks Yeshir, or slaves. They called the Armenians Rayas, or subjects. Yet they called the Jews Mousaphir, or visitors. Turkey favored the Jews. Rayas is philologically Rajas. This might connect the Armenians to the Rajpouts, but could it link them to the Etruscans, or the Rasenna?

Recall the Pope’s Dagon-style mitre, another name for Buddha being Dag-Po, dag meaning fish, along with the symbolism of bishops (calling themselves Pisciculi, or the little fish), Vishnu (who turns into a fish), and then consider what Gale wrote (Court of Gent. Vol. III. Bk. ii. ch. ii. pp. 224, 225.), "The Romans made Romulus a Flamen; which was a sort of priesthood so excelling in the Roman sacred things, (witness the Apex,) that they had only three Flamens instituted to the three Gods: the Diale to Jupiter (appreciate the symbolism of sundial): the Martiale to Mars: the Quirinale to Romulus. Ludovicus Vives on this place, explaining what this Flamen dedicated to Romulus was, tells us, ‘That among the orders of priests, Numa Pompilius made some, which he called Flamens: whose chief ensign was a Hat, as the bishops now, wherein there was a thread of white wool: whence they were called Filamines, from fila lanæ.’—This Apex, the Romans gave to none but their chiefest priests, as now the Mitres. So Lucan, Et tollens Apicem generoso vertice flamen."

The Oriflamme was a pointed, blood-red banner flown from a gilded lance, and a battle standard of the King of France. It used to be spelled Auriflamme, which is the flame of fire or fire of gold. Or and aur, as well as fire and gold, are interchangeable symbolically. The Oriflamme originated at St. Denis, which was built on a temple of Bacchus, who is Dionysus, or the sun.

Ceres is bread; Bacchus is wine. Love grows cold without bread and wine: Amor friget sine Cerere et Baccho. Amor is Roma when read like Etruscan, so Rome grows cold without bread and wine. Thus you have the Eucharist, the sacrifice of bread and wine, both produced by the wrath of God (summer sun) and harvested at the crucifixion (when the sun enters judgment, or Libra). The Eu-Χάρις (Charis) is the Good-Grace, the Good-Life.

Higgins wrote (Anac. Vol. II. p. 254.), "The wine was the grape, the βοτρυς (botrus; grape bunch), the racemus, the emblem of wisdom or knowledge—the fruit of the tree of knowledge, of the elm, the first letter of the alphabet, which bore on its trunk all the tree of letters, of the vedas, in which were concealed all sacred knowledge. The two united formed Eu Ca R STia or Eu Χ a Ρ ι Σ—dia, the good deity Χρης, or Ceres: and from this the body and blood of the initiated or Gnostici arose. And, in allusion to this, Jesus is made to say, ‘I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.’"

Jesus Christ is the savior of man. Savior is Heri. Heri-tage and in-heri-tance utilize Heri, or Hare. In Malay, hari pertains to the sun. So Hare Krishna is the black sun, as Krishna means black in Sanskrit, giving way to swarthy in Hindi. Eri is I am in Faroese. Does this relate to Erin, the goddess who Ireland takes its name from? Eri means holy in Etruscan. Is Ireland Eri-land, the Holy Land?

These deities are aspects of the sun throughout the year, whose journey between the tropics, or the northern and southern portions of the sky known as the Kingdom of God, as symbolized by a pole, scepter, or rod, usually with a serpent to imply a cycle of time between the ascent and descent, determines the lifecycles of Nature at each degree. These deities change genders and names based on the preferences of the priests in each culture, but never stray far from the universal system. Recall that the sextants used to acquire elevation angles to Polaris all over the world, in order to measure every degree of latitude, required a flat horizontal baseline (adjacent) to acquire said angles, which enabled the conceptualization of the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, as well as the Equator (they don’t exist in Nature), proving the earth is objectively and measurably flat (they used the horizon as the adjacent). There’s no argument to be had. Either you know this abject fact and concede it or you’re unlearned and thus whistle past the Godsacre because it’s beyond your comprehension. The third possibility is that you know this abject fact and deny it because you’re evil and mislead people for your benefit.

Om, or Aum, is another symbol, sound, or epithet of the Supreme Being, the All, God, whose divine light is the sun. But in the Arab world, Omm signifies mother. D’Herbelot wrote (Bibliothèque Orientale), "Omm. Ce mot Arabe, qui signifie Mère, a plusieurs significations, selon qu’il est joint à d’autres mots. Omm Alketab: la Mère du Livre, ou des Livres. Le Protocolle, ou Original. Les Musulmans appellant ainsi, la Table, ou le Livre des décrets divins; où ils prétendent que le destin de tous les hommes, est écrit en caractères ineffaçables, au quel ils donnent encore le nom de Louh al-Mahfoudh, qui signifie, la Table gardée, ou secrète.

"Le même titre d’Omm alketab, est encore attribué par les mêmes Musulmans au premier chapitre de l’Alcoran, que l’on nomme ordinairement, Soutat al-Fatehah.

Omm alcora: la Mère des Villes. C’est le titre que les Mohamétans donnent à la Mecque, parcequ’ils regardent cette ville comme la Métropole du Musulmanisme. L’on trouve cependant que la ville de Balkh a porté aussi le nom de Cobbat aleslam, qui signifie, le Dôme, ou la Voûte du Musulmanisme.—Quelques-uns ont donné aussi ce titre à la ville de Bokara.

Translated as, "Omm. This Arab word, which means Mother, has several meanings, even though it is common to other words. Omm Alketab: The Mother of Book, or Books. The Protocol, or Original. The Muslim appellants thus, the Table, or the Book of Divine Decrees; where they claim that the destiny of all men, is written in ineffective characters, to which they still give the name of Louh al-Mahfoudh, who signifies, the Guarded Table, or secret.

"The same title of Omm alketab, is still attributed by the same Muslims to the first chapter of Alcoran, which has an ordinary name, Soutat al-Fatehah.

"Omm alcora: the Mother of the Cities. It's the title that the Mohametans give to the Mecca, because they regard this city as the Metropolis of Muslimism. One finds, however, that the city of Balkh also carried the name of Cobbat aleslam, which signifies the Dome, or the Vote of Muslimism. — Some of them also gave this title to the city of Bokara."

One of the most overlooked ways to connect cultures is through religious symbolism, language, architecture, and astronomical or calendric affinities. Hindu days of the moon were called tithis, a word that is philologically tides (interchangeability of th and d; i and e). I suspect this is the occult origin of the idea that the moon creates the tides, something that has no scientific validity and can be debunked by the Great Lakes not having tides. However, the origin of tithi (day, date) comes from Sanskrit, which is philologically the same as tithe, a tenth of productivity that all Lords must pay the priest class, connecting a feudal system that traces back to India. Quid obstat, quo minus hoc inventum (referring to the Zodiac) Chaldæis tribuamus, populo antique, et a primis, post reparationem humani generis, in terra Sinear colonis, oriundo? Sane Sextus Empiricus (Lib. I. con. Astrol. p. 339.), famosus ille Scepticus, qui totum hoc quod scire vocamus, disputationibus suis evertit, contra astrologiam disputaturus, hoc tanquam certum et indubium assumit, Chaldæos antiquos eandem Zodiacum, quem habent Græci, cum omnibus animalibus habuisse. Chaldæi, inquit, Zodiacum circulum, ut edocti sumus, dividunt in duodecem animalia, &c. (Naturæ et Scripturæ Concordia, Cap. iv. Lipsiæ, 1752.)

Translated as, "What prevents this invention from attributing (referring to the Zodiac) to the Chaldeans, an ancient people, and from the first, after the restoration of the human race, settlers in the land of Sinear? Of course Sextus Empiricus, that famous Skeptic, who overturns all that we call to know, in his discussions, to dispute against astrology, assumes this as certain and unambiguous; that the ancient Chaldeans had the same Zodiac, which the Greeks have, with all animals. The Chaldeans, he says, divide the Zodiac Circle, as we have been taught, into twelve animals, &c."

If this were true, how old can the Chaldeans actually be? It is well known that Libra used to be The Claws of the Scorpion, that the Zodiacal signs were eleven and not twelve, that the months are thirteen and not eleven or twelve. Or is something false about there being only eleven signs, and before that ten, and before that eight, and so on? When things don’t add up, it’s not because you’re not smart enough to learn them. Something is amiss and you may be stumbling upon fraud. Is Jagernath Ya-Ganesha, or Janus? Is the Odia language, which was Oriya (aur-ia), related to Ie, God of fire, of gold, the sun? Is this Odinism on the eastern side of India’s peninsula? Odisha is the state, formerly Oriss, so this is not likely the case. But the Or, Aur, or Ur cannot be ignored, especially when books on medicine in India were written in Chaldee, corresponding to their astrology, and the Tibetans had Chaldean divinities according to Father Gregorius. If associated with Janus, it’d connect the symbolism to the Jains. "That form of the cross called the svastika was the symbol of Supársura, the seventh Ticthankaru of the Jains." (Del Mar, Wors. Aug. Caes. p. 102.) Nazi symbolism is Buddhic.

William Whiston wrote (New Theory of Earth, Book II. pp. 144-161.) "There is also no small probability, that the most ancient year of the Mexicans in North America (who seem to have had their original from some of the eastern nations) was also exactly 360 days. This people (as Joseph Acosta, amongst others, informs us) ‘divided their year into months, to [each of] which they gave 20 days, wherein the 360 days are accomplished, not comprehending in any of these months, the 5 days that remain and make the year perfect. But they did reckon them apart at the end of the year, and called them days of nothing; during which the people did not any thing, neither went they to their temples, but occupied themselves only in visiting one another, and so spent the time. The sacrifices of the temple did likewise cease their sacrifices.’ Since then the Mexicans, even till these later times, esteemed as nothing those five days that were added to the 360 at the end of the year, and accordingly spent them in mere idleness; it is very probable they did this to signify that those additional days were not to be looked upon as any real part of the year, as they certainly were not of any of its months; or at least, to signify that they did not originally belong to the year, but were added to it in later times, to make it more agreeable to the solar year. And if so, it must be allowed that the primitive year of the Mexicans contained just 360 days, and no more."

The sign of Five Days corresponded to adulterers and robbers. Again (Ib. pp. 150-159.), "The only year among the ancient Greeks, and the nations descended from them, that can come in competition with this year of 360 days, is the tropical year or a year made very nearly equal to the tropical by cycles of years, or proper intercalations of months or days in certain revolving periods. And that this year was not originally in civil use amongst them, appears very probable from the most ancient manner of determining the seasons of the year, but by the heliacal rising and setting of the fixed stars, as is well known to all that are conversant in the old poetry and astronomy. Now, if the tropical year, or a year made equivalent to it by proper intercalations, had been the civil year, it can hardly be imagined that the easy and obvious method of reckoning the seasons by the months and days of the civil year should be entirely neglected; and so odd and troublesome a method as that of fixing them by the heliacal rising and setting of the fixed stars, should be entertained in its stead. And in confirmation of this reasoning, Diogenes Laertius says, that Thales the Milesian was the first of all the Greeks who discovered the length of the four seasons of the year, and that the tropical year was 365 days in length. And though Solon is said to have made the month conformable to the motion of the moon at Athens, yet even he himself was utterly ignorant of the tropical year, if he really had that discourse with Crœsus, king of Lydia, which Herodotus relates he had. For he there supposes, that if the year of 360 days had an embolimary month of 30 days added to it every other year, it would thereby become equal to the tropical year. Whereby it is plain, he took the tropical year to be 375 days long, which is above 9 days and 18 hours more than the Truth. Wherefore I think it may be concluded, that till after the time of Solon (or if this discourse with Crœsus be feigned by Herodotus under Solon’s name, then even till Herodotus’s time, which is above 100 years later) the ancient Greeks were generally ignorant of the true length of the tropical year; and, consequently, the most ancient Grecian year was not equal to the tropical. And if so, the following ancient testimonies will be undoubted evidence that it was of no other length than 360 days. (All those seeking the correspondence of the Greek mythological system to the accuracy of Nature have wasted their time. There is no need to be in awe of those who research and lecture on Greek mythology, just as there is no need to be in awe of Biblical scholars who speak Greek and Hebrew. They wasted their life looking at texts that were forgeries and must whistle past the Godsacre as they try to make sense of monkish Latin that was translated into Greek, often containing words and spellings never used by authentic Grecians. But rather than realize they’ve been deceived, it’s easier to dismiss the obvious and carry on as if no one noticed, because most people are not learned enough to catch these discrepancies and expose the fraud. But you who read this ought to be leveled up by now.)

"That the ancient year of Greece, Lydia, and the Grecian colonies in Asia, was just 360 days, appears from several testimonies. There is a clear intimation of this in the 360 gods, which (as Justin Martyr assures us) that most ancient poet and philosopher Orpheus introduced; one, it seems, for every day in the year. The same thing may be concluded from the before-cited testimony of Herodotus, (of Halicarnassus, a Grecian city in Asia,) who introduces Solon discoursing with Crœsus, king of Lydia, where, he says, that 70 years, (viz. either Asiatic years, even till Herodotus’s time, or at least Lydian years in the time of Crœsus,) contained 25,200 days; from whence it follows, that a single year, at the same time, contained just 360 days. This also is proved from the riddle of Cleobulus (who, if real and dated properly, proves that there were 12 divisions of the year as far back as 6th century BC), tyrant of Lindus, a city of Rhodes. There is, says he, one father who has 12 children, and each of these has 60 daughters, 30 of them white, and 30 of them black, all of them being immortal; and yet mortal continually. By which all agree, that the year is meant with its 12 months, and each of their 30 days and 30 nights. Thus also Hippocrates (c. 460-c. 370 B.C., of the island of Cos, in the Egean sea) affirms, that 7 years contain 360 weeks, and so one year 360 days. And also that 7 months are 210 days; and 9 months and 10 days are just 280 days; and elsewhere, that 9 months contained 270 days, according to the computation of the Grecians. From all which it is evident, that 30 days were then allowed to a month, and 360 days to a year.

"That the most ancient year at Athens in particular, was 360 days, and the month 30 days, appears from the very original constitution of the city of Athens itself, which, as we learn from Harpocration, Julius Pollux, and Suidas, was divided (to use the words of the last) into four tribes, in imitation of the 4 seasons of the year; which tribes contained 12 φρατρίας (phratrias) corresponding to the 12 months; and each φρατρία had 30 γένη (gene) answering to the 30 days of each month; so that all the γένη collected together were 360, as many as the days of the year. Which words, in the opinion of a learned man, do not only demonstrate the true length of the primitive Athenian year, but also give the reason of it, from the original constitution of the city itself. That they demonstrate the true length of the primitive Athenian year, I acknowledge is very plain; but (with submission) they are so far from deriving this year, with its 4 seasons, 12 months, and 30 days in each month, from the constitution of the city, that they assert on the contrary, the city was so divided and constituted in the imitation of the year, and of its 4 seasons, 12 months, &c. And if Athens was a colony of the Egyptians, as seems exceedingly probable, there can be no doubt but that the ancient year of 360 days and 12 equal months, (the only year and months the Egyptians then made use of) gave birth to the aforesaid constitution of that city, and so were evidently the primitive year and months in civil use at Athens.

"That the Athenians retained the year of 360 days, and the month of 30 days, till after the time of Alexander the Great, (either solely, as some learned men hold; or at least, together with the Lunæ-solar year, as Theodorus Gaza was of opinion,) may be proved from the books of ancient Athenians yet extant, as well as by other authorities. Thus Xenophon, in his excellent discourse of the revenue of the state of Athens, always takes it for granted that a year did then contain 360 days, and no more, as his late translator in his notes, particularly, observes and demonstrates. And Plato, in his 6th book de Legibus, would have the Senate of the new Commonwealth he is there describing, to consist of 360 men, to be divided into 4 parts of 90 each; in this alluding plainly to the year of 360 days, and its 4 quarters. And Aristotle expressly assures us, that the 5th part of a year was 72 days, and the 6th part was 60 days; and so by plain consequence, the whole year must have been 360 days. Lastly, Pliny, Laertius, and Varro, inform us, that at Athens, Demetreus Phalereus (after the time of Alexander the Great) had just 360 statues erected to his memory, the year at that time (as Pliny says expressly, and the other two as expressly as he, if their testimonies be taken jointly) not having any greater number of days in it than 360.

"This ancient year of only 360 days, appears also to have been the first Roman year before Numa Pompilius’s correction. For Plutarch, in the life of Numa, says, that ‘during the reign of Romulus, some months were not 20 days long, and others contained 35 days or more, the Romans not then sufficiently understanding the true length of the solar or lunar periods; but only providing for this one thing, that the whole year should contain just 360 days.’ (Quite the same mistake to be making among countries that aren’t part of the same system or empire.)

"That this was the primitive Roman year, will appear very probable also from the Julian Calendar itself, which intercalates the Bissextile day immediately after the Terminalia, the last day of the ancient year; that is, immediately before the 5 last days of February, the last month in the ancient year; so that the 5 last days of February every common year, and the 6 last every Bissextile year, are to be reckoned intercalary, or additional days to the other 360. And, indeed St. Austin, speaking of those who reckoned the Antediluvian years to be no more than 36 days, the 10th part of the lunar year, which he supposed to be 360 days, to which the 5 ¼ days were afterwards added to fill up the solar year; directly says, that the Romans called all those five (or six days in a Bissextile year) intercalary days. And though an intercalary month in the times immediately before the Julian correction, was inserted in the same place where the Bissextile day is inserted now; yet it is probable from what St. Austin says, and indeed from the agreeableness of the thing itself, that the first correction of the ancient year of 360 days, was made by adding the five days aforesaid to the end of it.

"That the original Roman year was exactly 360 days, is farther proved, because a tacit year of that length was retained in the Roman Empire for the anniversary celebration of some particular solemnities, long after the establishment of the Julian year, as appears from some inscriptions in Gruter; concerning which hear the words of the famous Cardinal Norris.—‘In harum Inscriptionum unâ dicitur Nonius Victor cum Aurelio Victore, Datiano Cereale Coss. tradidisse Leontica XVI. Kal. April. Et in alterâ memorandum iidem, Eusebio & Hypatio Coss. iterum tradidisse Leontica IV. Idus Martias. Erant sacra anniversaria, quæ anno evoluto, ab iisdem instaurata fuerunt. Priora peracta sunt Anno Christi 358, die 17 Martii; altera anno 359, die ejusdem mensis 12, jam evolutis diebus a prioribus Leonticis, 360.’ (The inscriptions indicate that the sacred anniversaries were instituted on March 17th in 358 AD, then on March 12th in the year 359 AD, the days already advanced by the former Leonticians, 360.) This reasoning, from such undoubted authorities, is so plain and convincing, that nothing farther need to be added to it.

"This computation of 30 days to every month, and so of 360 days to a year in ancient time, is also confirmed by that length of a month all along in the old histories, as has, in great measure, been proved already, and is confirmed by these farther testimonies. When Queen Esther would express her absence from King Ahasuerus for an entire month, she expresses it thus: ‘I have not been called to come in unto the King these 30 days.’ And when Darius’s courtiers in Daniel solicited him to prohibit prayers for an entire month likewise, they expressed it thus: that ‘none should ask a petition of any god or man for 30 days.’ And this month of 30 days did certainly continue in civil use at Athens till Solon’s time at least. Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch agree, that he was the first who accommodated the month to the motion of the moon, and called the last day of it (which before was named τριαχάς, triachas, the 30th day) ένηχαίνέα, henechainea, the Old and New day, as belonging partly to the old moon, and partly to the new (the Greek letters contain ligatures which I took the liberty of simplifying for you). And Proclus also adds, that Solon was just the first that made the month less than 30 days. Nay, even in later times, about 200 years after Solon, the ancient astronomers Euctemon, Philip, and Calippus, in those very cycles which they made for adjusting the years and months to the motions of the sun and moon, did constantly allow 30 days to each month, and then threw out every 63rd or 64th day, as is particularly explained in Geminus; who himself also expressly asserts, that the ancients constantly allowed 30 days to a month. Lastly, Julius Pollux, Galen, Cleomedes, Orus Apollo, Achilles Tatius, and St. Austin, do each of them assure us, that by a month, in the vulgar way of speaking, is meant 30 days. Nay, the four last express themselves so as if the lunar month itself were exactly of that length. And St. Austin carries the matter farther, and takes the lunar year, or 12 lunar months, to contain just 360 days. And it cannot be easily imagined how so great an error should so universally obtain, unless the most ancient year and month had been just 360 and 30 days in length respectively."

I have suspicions about the Calendar of Romulus, or the 10-month calendar. Just because you see evidence of the numbers 5 through 10 for the months doesn’t prove