Islam Eid
Reply #5 - September 24, 2015, 06:15 PM
Ohh, let me try! Important stuff is based on the lunar cycle, and the religion is symbolised by a crescent moon.
Judaism has a mixed lunar/solar calendar....it's a lunar calendar most of the time, with an added leap month every couple years to keep the farming/harvest related festivals at the right time of year. But think for a second about where the two religions developed geographically. Judaism developed in the fertile crescent (usually it was centered in and around a few key cities in Judea, but a lot of the time the political/religious authorities were based in Babylon or Persia). The land in the fertile crescent largely supports subsistence farming, so that was a big part of the culture. Islam developed mostly in Arabia. The land in Arabia is mostly desert and largely does not support farming, so travelling for water and food between the small areas that did support it, and finding water when it did rain, was a big part of their culture. So where Islam developed was not as tied to the solar year agriculturally as where Judaism developed.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for I have a sonic screwdriver, a tricorder, and a Type 2 phaser.