Re: Calendar Systems

FWFIW - I've largely passed that by in my world Yhe Gyhe-Ineat - there can't
be a lunar calendar because there's no moon; there's a sort of grand bi-solar
calendar - indicated by the use of the name of the "Sister-Sun" Balrevo
prefixed to the name of the season.  That separates the ordinary year and its
seasons from the grand year and its seasons as augmenting the ordinary
seasons - ie, Balrevo-Winter when augmenting ordinary winter, is a miniature
ice age; while Balrevo-Summer augmenting Summer is a season-long heat-wave.
The tidal effects are quite unpleasant as well.

And since there's no moon, one can't divide the year up into moon-shaped
slices.  Instead, one uses the expression "hand of days" to break up the
season into a manageable unit.  And multiples thereof to manage larger units.

On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 04:23, Geoff Horswood wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to create an interesting calendar system for the Xinkutlan
> culture- something totally unrelated to the standard Julian/Gregorian
> model.  I'm passingly familiar with some of the Ancient Near Eastern
> calendars (Egyptian & Hebrew mostly, though I think I've some notes on the
> Babylonian system somewhere...), and I've had a brief look at the Maya
> calendar system, but I thought I'd put the question out there and see what
> others have done.
>
> So:
>
> 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?  If you have a lunar calendar, do you have
> any way of tying it in to the (solar) agricultural year?
> What about leap years?  There are various ways of doing this, too:  the
> Hebrew calendar, IIRC, added a whole repeat month once every 4 years.
>
> 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?
>
> Do you have any multiple-year cycles, like the Chinese (& Central Asian)
> animal cycle?  How does that work?
>
> Any information you could give me will broaden the possibilities- I'm
> curious as to what others have done.
>
> Geoff
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