Re: The New Year

The Rokbeigalmki New Year is the day after the Southern Hemisphere's
winter solstice.  i.e., June 22nd in the Gregorian calendar is 1 Ghalúb
(the first month of the year) in the Rokbeigalmki calendar.  Their "new
year's day" is called |^dzuwaurg^dafal^dari.hlao^semoz-a|, "the festival
of the widening of the circle of the sun", or |dzu''fa''ri| for short.
Dzu''fa''ri also happens to be the birthday of my prototypical
Rokbeigalmkidh, my ElendorMUSH character Stygius.
Since Tolkien's Middle-Earth (where the Rokbeigalm live) doesn't have a
direct time-connection with *here*, i use my own year-numberings,
beginning with the year 0 when i started making Rokbeigalmki.  Right now
is the year 6.


-Stephen (Steg)
 "Beornings speak with Lithuanian accents?!"


On Sun, 29 Dec 2002 10:13:30 EST James Landau <Neurotico@...> writes:
Where have you decided to start your new years, and in what seasons? The
belief that the year should change with winter (or more precisely, ten
days from the start of winter) seems arbitrary. Rosh Hashannah occurs in
September, the Julian calendar if I recall began on April Fool's Day, and
only the other day an episode of "The Simpsons" was on in which Officer
Wiggum mentioned he had confiscated some fireworks from some Chinese
people who -- get this! -- claimed they were celebrating New Year's in
February! If anything, I would think the obvious time to start a new year
would be with spring. Spring is where things begin again; in winter it's
just a lot of dying and washing away of The Old. (But looking at my new
date, the Kankonian New Year begins EXACTLY when we're celebrating the
beginning of spring. Hmmmm.) How have you decided to determine the start
of your non-Gregorian calendars, and do you even split up the months the
same as the Gregorian way, or base your months on! the moon? For creators
of different planets, the calendar