Re: Weeks and days, was: Opinions on English

Fakatinátas pál Iún Á Lí:
> The only festivals I know of are the Festival of the Cherry Blossoms,
> celebrating spring in both Avrezin and Qenar, and the Festival of the
> Kites, celebrated in Qenar only to commemorate a battle in which kites
> were used as scare-tactics (with some help from "special effects").
I know of several major festivals, including six "movable" festivals.
They are:

Note: There are 6 days of the week - Fire, Water, Air, Flesh, Life,
Love, and 15 or 16 months in the year, each of which consist of 24 or 25
days (details at http://Nik_Taylor.tripod.com/Conlang/Calendar.html)

Spring Festival: The Life-Day in the first week of Lás Uakallá
(Newness); that is, 1/1-1/6
Summer Festival: The Fire-Day in the fourth week of Lás Uaflaazázi
Uafklúsui (Long Days); that is, 4/19-4/24
Autumn Festival: The Water-Day in the third week of Lás Uatikasí
(Middle); that is, 8/13-8/18
Winter Festival: The Air-Day in the second week of Lás Uapuusafí uíf
tiKaziánaf (Sun's Rebirth); that is, 12/7-12/12

The other two Movable Festivals are *very* movable, in that they can
occur at any point in the year.  They are connected with the planet's
two suns.  The main sun, the sun the planet orbits around, is what the
year is based on, but it and the other sun orbit each other, and as the
planet orbits the main sun, the relative arrangement of the two suns and
the planet change.  Thus, there is:
Zá Uafkadísi (Day of the Suns) - The day when both suns rise at about
the same time.
Zá Pizikaffá (Day of Light) - The day of maximum light, when the
Companion rises at the same time as the Sun sets; in practice, 31-1/2
weeks after Zá Uafkadísi

The two suns divide the day into four quarters of varying length:
Double-Day (both suns are in the sky)
Day (only the Sun is in the sky)
Little-Day (only the Companion is in the sky)
Night (no sun is in the sky)

Thus, during the year, the days look like (the day begins at Sunrise):
Zá Uafkadísi - Double-Day, Night
Double-Day, Day, Night, Little-Day
    With Day and Little-Day getting longer and longer, and Double-Day
    and Night getting shorter
Zá Pizikaffá - Day, Little-Day
Day, Double-Day, Little-Day, Night
    With Day and Little-Day getting shorter and shorter, and Double-Day
    and Night getting longer

Some of the old gods' priests used a holy calendar based on the
Companion rather than the Sun

As the two suns orbit each other, Zá Uafkadísi and Zá Pizikaffá occur at
different times of the year, and thus combine with the regular seasons
in interesting ways.

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