Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

> Van:  Jan van Steenbergen
>
> 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.
The Seven-Day Week
The Babylonians marked time with lunar months. They proscribed some
activities during several days of the month, particularly the
first -- the first visible crecent,
seventh -- the waxing half moon,
fourteenth -- the full moon,
nineteenth -- dedicated to an offended goddess,
twenty-first -- the waning half moon,
twenty-eigth -- the last visible crecent,
twenty-nineth -- the invisible moon, and
thirtieth (possibly) -- the invisible moon.
The major periods are seven days, 1/4 month, long. This seven-day period was
later regularized and disassociated from the lunar month to become our
seven-day week.

> Probably just an invention of long-ago trade unions :)))
Well, the Babylonians did trade... ;-)

Maarten