Re: Calendar Systems
| From: | scott <sjcaldwell@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 3, 2004, 15:05 |
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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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