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| naja_MS | Feb 13 2008, 07:40 PM Post #1 |
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THE GOREAN CALENDAR There are 12 months per year. Each month is 25 days long, split into 5 weeks. Each week is made up of 5 days. (Weeks are called, 'hands') Then, between each month is a five day week, called a 'Passage Hand', used to separate one month from the next. At the end of the year, there is one more 5-day week separating the old year from the new, this week is called the 'Waiting Hand' So, 5 days = week (hand) 5 weeks (hands) = month 1 week (Passage Hand) between each month 12 months per year 1 week (Waiting hand) for a total of 365 days per Gorean year (5 days/week * 5 weeks/month * 12 months/year) + (5 days/passage hand * 12 passage hands/year) + (5 days/waiting hand * 1 waiting hand/year) = 365 * Years are generally kept track of differently in each city by virtue of Administrator Lists (ex. the Second Year when So-and-So was administrator) although some cities do add the dating of Ar next to their own cities dates. Time in Ar is calculated from the founding date of the city (called Contesta Ar). Most Goreans calculate the year from vernal equinox to vernal equinox. Turians, however, calulate it from summer solstice to summer solstice, and the Wagon Peoples calculate it from Season of Snows to Season of Snows. * The Gorean Calendar (a link) (shows equivalent Earth dates) * "There are twelve twenty-five day Gorean months, incidentally, in most of the calendars of the various cities. Each month, containing five five-day weeks is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by a Passage Hand, but by another five day period called the Waiting Hand...." Assassin of Gor, page 78 "...but on the Vernal Equinox, which marks the first day of the new year in most Gorean cities..." Assassin of Gor, page 78 "It was now the month of the vernal equinox on Gor, called En'Kara, or The First Kara. The full expression is En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, which means, rather literally, The First Turning of the Central Fire. Lar-Torvis is a Gorean expression for the sun. More commonly, though never in the context of time, the sun is referred to as Tor-Tu-Gor, or Light Upon the Home Stone. The month of the autumnal equinox is called fully Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, but usually simply, Se'Kara, The Second Kara, or The Second Turning. As might be expected, there are related expressions for the months of the solstices, En'Var- Lar-Torvis and Se'Var-Lar-Torvis, or, again rather literally, the First Resting and the Second Resting of the Central Fire. These, however, like the other expressions, usually occur in speech only as En'Var and Se'Var, or The First Resting and The Second Resting." Outlaw of Gor, page 178 "...publically sold during the ninth passage hand, that preceding the winter solstice." Assassin of Gor, page 192 "Chronology, incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists...sometimes cities are willing to add, in their records, beside their own dating, the dating of Ar, which is Gor's greatest city...Time is reckoned "Contasta Ar", or from the "founding of Ar." Outlaw of Gor, pages 178-179 "He did so late in the spring, on the sixteenth day of the third month, that month which in Ar is called Camerius, in Ko-ro-ba Selnar." Assassin of Gor, pages 234-235 "...for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure the year from summer solstice to summer solstice; Goreans generally, on the other hand, figure the year from vernal equinox to vernal equinox." Nomads of Gor, page 11 |
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