Native American Calendar
The Mansions of the Moon
The Lakota Sioux, like many peoples, followed a twenty-eight day lunar calendar. The division of a circle into twenty-eight parts would form a lunar zodiac corresponding to the distance, against a backdrop of stars, travelled by the moon each day. Early lunar zodiacs of this kind are found in China, Arabia and India and are commonly referred to as the Mansions of the Moon - Sieu, Manzils, and Nakshatras respectively. The beginning of the circle was most probably the star on the horizon at the time of the Spring Equinox and, if projected to the sky and the ecliptic circle, each Mansion would equal approximately 12 degrees and 51 minutes.
The Big Horn Medicine Wheel
This Medicine
Wheel in Wyoming is approximately ninety feet in diameter and was
apparently also used for sunsighting. The central cairn is twelve
feet in diameter and there are star-sighting points distributed
along the twenty-eight spokes of the wheel.
Petroglyphs drawn in the same
pattern 1,000 to 3,000 years ago in the Valley of Fire (State
Park) in Nevada, are regarded as the mark of the Moon Clan people.
Biblical Reference
John 14:1-4
"Do not let your heart be troubled; you believe in God,
believe also in Me. In my Father's house are many mansions. But
if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a
place for you. I am coming again and will receive you to Myself,
that where I am you may be also. And where I go you know, and the
way you know."KJV