Our life is a succession of years, days and nights, hours, minutes and brief moments. We observe the established rules of calculation in order to determine the dates of important events and provide appropriate information about different time periods. Every nation standing at quite a high level of cultural development, when starting a civilization of its own, was facing the task of large and small periods calculations. The chronological history of any civilization was possible only after this task had been successfully accomplished. This is the way various calendars appeared – Sumerian, Coptic, Mayan, Hebrew, Chinese, Tibetan and many others. Culture of all world nations has always been inseparable from their religion, religious events were regarded as the most significant and fundamental historical milestones. Therefore many calendars are closely related to religion. We know such calendars as Muslim (Islamic), Buddhist and Zoroastrian, calendars of Orthodox and Catholic holidays. Timepieces made by Konstantin Chaykin from the collection “Calendars and Religions” incarnate findings and discoveries made by the greatest astronomers of all times. Powered with calendars of different nations and religions, these admirable pieces of religion possess the magic of timing not only hours and minutes of our short lives but also years, centuries, millennia and even epochs…
