Re: CHAT: The Elven (or Techian) calendar

Jan van Steenbergen wrote:
> But weeks? They don't fit within either months or years.
Roughly the time period between one phase of the moon and the next, for
one (in fact, "week" and "weak" are possibly related, derived from a
German root meaning "bend" or "change"; something weak is "bendable",
while a week is the time it takes the moon to "change").  AFAIK, most
cultures have some unit of time between a day and a month, which could
be called a week, whether it's the 7-day period of modern-day Western
Europe, or the 8-day period of ancient Rome, or the 6-day period of
ancient Greece, or the 13-day period of the Maya (who also had a 20-day
week), or the 10-day week of the far east.  A month is a useful period
of some purposes, but for others it's too long, while a day is too
short.

It occurs to me that it's a good thing that all the major religions
either use the 7-day week or don't have religious significance to the
week.  Imagine the difficulties for someone whose holy day was every 8th
day in trying to fit his religious life and his secular life!  :-)

Incidentally, the middle moon, the one upon which the Kassi calendar is
based, has a lunar cycle of just slightly over 24 days, so that one
phase to the next is about 6 days, which just happens to be their week!
:-)

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