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[Alexandr Korol]

Now, if I follow the correct sequence, then next, I need to figure out what a week is and understand all the days of the week – that’s the next step. This comes right after the creation of the sky and the earth, after all these time divisions. This is the further breakdown, the unfolding of the matrix. But now, of course, I will look at Wikipedia again and focus on what is what. And what do we see? We have a day. What is a day according to Wikipedia? “A day is a unit of time measurement, approximately equal to the period of Earth’s rotation around its axis. Usually, ‘day’ refers to the astronomical concept of ‘solar day.’ In everyday use, a day is often simply called ‘daytime.’ A day is divided into 24 hours (1,440 minutes or 86,400 seconds) and is conventionally divided into four characteristic intervals: morning, day, evening, and night. Calendar days form weeks and months.” This is the next stage of the matrix’s unfolding, the creation of the cosmos, the ordering of everything. “Mean solar days are tied to the fictional ‘mean Sun’ – a point moving uniformly along the celestial equator, making one full orbit in a year. Mean days are obtained by dividing the duration of a tropical year (366.2422 sidereal days) by 365.2422 equal parts. These, in turn, are divided into 24 hours, an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. True solar days are defined as the time interval between two upper culminations (successive crossings of the Sun’s center through the southern part of the meridian in the Northern Hemisphere); in other words, the time between two true noons. The beginning of these days is marked by the moment the Sun’s center crosses the southern meridian. The hour angle of the Sun’s center is called true time (see Equation of Time). True solar days are longer than sidereal days, and their length varies throughout the year due to the tilt of the ecliptic relative to the equatorial plane and the irregular motion of Earth around the Sun.” Next, there is a section in Wikipedia called “Cultural Boundaries of a Day.” “Ancient people counted time either by day or by night. The earliest mention of a day as a unit combining both day and night is found in Homer, where a day began at dawn. In Ancient Rus, until the 13th century, ‘day’ was not used as a timekeeping unit. Old Russian chroniclers counted time in full days from dawn to dawn. Jewish days begin at sunset. The Christian Church and medieval Europe followed this tradition, known in the West as the ‘Florentine count’ – according to this system, the phrase ‘two hours into the day’ meant ‘two hours after sunset.’ Special dates such as Christmas Eve and Halloween, which begin in the evening, are remnants of old customs when religious holidays started on the previous evening.”