Re: Calendar Systems

Hey!

Here are my two cents:

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 16:23, Geoff Horswood wrote:

 > How do you arrange your calendar (assuming it's a
 > non-standard one)? Is it solar or lunar?  If you have no
 > moon, or multiple moons, how does that affect the
 > calendar system?

I've written about that recently:
listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411a&L=conlang&P=27327

The followup must be somwhere at
listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0411b&L=conlang,
"Re: First thoughts on Ayeri calendar system". Also on the
same page, "CONCULTURE: Re: First thoughts on Ayeri
calendar system" (someone added "CONCULTURE" and we all
sticked to that tag).

It's far from being worked-out and being sensible yet, I
even don't know if I really should keep two moons. I need
to work out some scientific stuff for that, but have not
really time for anything "conart" related at the moment
because of school. It's only 12 days of school until the
Christmas holidays begin for me! OTOH, there are still 6
class tests to be written.

 > What do you call your months?
 > What about days of the week?  Do you name them after
 > deities, have a "first day, second day" system like
 > Russian, name them after typical household events
 > ("washing-day, mending-day"...), what?

  perin -- sun
  colun -- moon
  concyan -- month (< colun-ca-hicyan)
  pericyan -- year (< perin-ca-hicyan)

  I'm ashamed to say, but there's no word for "day" yet.

I think themonths will be named after the gods
or spirits (and thus maybe after star constellations),
cycles of years might also get names of animals or so.
You're right, why not naming weekdays after household
events!
Although the years on Areca are ~455.75 days, their years
are shorter than ours because the planet moves 1.2 times
faster than Earth (1 e-sec ~5/6 a-sec). I.e. the Arecan
year is about 8,75 weeks shorter than ours.
I also haven't thought of a day 0, but I think perhaps it's
some mythological event.

However, there's much to do and I think it'll take years
until I have come up with something sensible, but anyway.

Carsten

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