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Re: Calendar Systems

From:scott <sjcaldwell@...>
Date:Friday, December 3, 2004, 15:05
On Dec 03, 2004, at 4:50 AM, Geoff Horswood wrote:

> Ok. Here's what I've come up with so far.
Interesting stuff. You've got some great background mythology -- or at least the beginnings of it.
> <snippage>Twice in every 9 years, this dark time is reduced by a day.
I, too, was positing a world with a ... a ... well whatever the "opposite" of a leap year is. Is there a name for this sort of thing? A fall year? Short year?
> dzak /dzak/ "fire" > tsu /tsu/ "air" > nuatl /nwa'tK/ /nwa'tl/ "rain" (possibly) > tlomal /tlo'mal/ "earth", "soil" > llapas /Ka'pas/ "water" > tlep /tKEp/ "stone" (again, possibly) > capil /Sap'Il/ "light" (I'm really unsure about this > one)
Other possibilities: blood, wood, life, lightning, ether (as from ethereal) later, scott "The man with no arms and no legs begged me to remember him."

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