The earliest roman calendar had only 10 months / 304 days. Thereās still traces of that in the names today (e.g. DECember used to be the 10th month)
Thereās a theory that ancient romans just ignored the missing 61 days in the solar year, since they were in the middle of winter.
So effectively January and February were ādead timeā were everyone agreed nothing happened - time doesnāt exist. Just wait around until the sun comes out again.
Thatās a concept I could get behind. š ā Read more