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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 _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com