Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar
From: | wayne chevrier <wachevrier@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, May 14, 2002, 16:53 |
Jan van Steenbergen nevesht:
>Interesting stuff to think about. I've always wondered where weeks come
>from.
>Most time units have some sort of natural background - days, years, months,
>even seconds. But weeks? They don't fit within either months or years. A
>conculturer who would come up with something like that would probably be
>criticized heavily.
>Probably just an invention of long-ago trade unions :)))
>
Actually, astrology.
The seven days from the seven planets, the order from the outside in
(geocentric) for each hour, the days named by the planet of the first hour
of the day.
-Wayne Chevrier
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