Re: Merry Christmas

On Wednesday 09 January 2002 15:45, Adam Walker wrote:

> Oh, my.  That is complex.  I didn't realize there was a MIXED
> calendar. Having one for religious observance and one for secular
> use is bad enough, but a mixed religious observance calendar with
> some dates determined by one calendar and others by another!
It's actually much easier for normal churchgoers, who only have to
remember the different date of Easter (and Palm Sunday, Ascension Day
and Pentecost, obviously, but that's easy to calculate on one's
fingers). And we *did* have Easter on the same date last year. This
year, alas, it's *five* weeks later (it can be one, two, four or five
weeks depending on the phase of the moon).

This inspired me, by the way, to have a temple novice in the book I'm
writing (not a Christian novice, obviously, it's set in Valdyas,
she's in the Temple of Naigha) take lessons in "calendar" because the
Temple of Naigha uses a lunar calendar interacting with the solstices
and equinoxes.

> Who established *that* tradition? And how old is that tradition?
I don't know. It might be look-uppable, but I'm feverish right now
and too lazy to do the work. I think it might have been the Russian
Constantinopoleans (is that a word? Constantinopolites?) after the
Russian Revolution.

   Irina

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