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A lunar month (''huliāsena'') is a fixed 34-day division parallel to the fourteen solar months described above. Every lunar month is divided in ''lānicunih'' (pl. ''lānicuneyai''), which is the "fixed" 32-hour (28<sub>12</sub>) bureaucratic lunar day (as opposed to ''ilėmpārṇam'', the astronomical lunar day of variable length, which varies between 30 ½ and 33 Calemerian hours), which is equivalent to the solar day, and ''lānicuneyai'' are grouped in two periods called ''lānimpeɂila'' (pl. ''lānimpeɂilai''), each one of 17 days, half of the lunar month. The ''lānimpeɂilai'' are the closest equivalent of a "week" in the Chlouvānem calendar; they are astronomically based on lunar phases, and are called respectively ''chlærlīltāvi'' (from new to full moon) and ''līleñchlæriāvi''. | A lunar month (''huliāsena'') is a fixed 34-day division parallel to the fourteen solar months described above. Every lunar month is divided in ''lānicunih'' (pl. ''lānicuneyai''), which is the "fixed" 32-hour (28<sub>12</sub>) bureaucratic lunar day (as opposed to ''ilėmpārṇam'', the astronomical lunar day of variable length, which varies between 30 ½ and 33 Calemerian hours), which is equivalent to the solar day, and ''lānicuneyai'' are grouped in two periods called ''lānimpeɂila'' (pl. ''lānimpeɂilai''), each one of 17 days, half of the lunar month. The ''lānimpeɂilai'' are the closest equivalent of a "week" in the Chlouvānem calendar; they are astronomically based on lunar phases, and are called respectively ''chlærlīltāvi'' (from new to full moon) and ''līleñchlæriāvi''. | ||
These divisions - the ''lānimpeɂilai'' - take the place of “weeks” for event schedules: the fifth and eleventh days of each lunar phase are half-rest days, while the sixth, twelfth, and seventeenth are full rest days; the first day of the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth lunar months are also full rest days. | These divisions - the ''lānimpeɂilai'' - take the place of “weeks” for event schedules: the fifth and eleventh days of each lunar phase are half-rest days, while the sixth, twelfth, and seventeenth are full rest days; the first day of the first, fourth, seventh, and tenth lunar months are also full rest days. | ||
''[names of lunar | Month names are often half-calques of the original Lällshag names, and names of animals and plants are the main root for most of them: | ||
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! N. !! Lunar month name !! Meaning | |||
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! 1 | |||
| ñaiṭāšarai || Month of stars | |||
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! 2 | |||
| dildhāmai || Month of ''dildhai'' | |||
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! 3 | |||
| tāriāṣṭri || Month of red leopards | |||
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! 4 | |||
| ėmīlyāvi || Month of tigers | |||
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! 5 | |||
| nāmñāṣṭri || Month of ''nāmñyai'' | |||
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! 6 | |||
| māruḍānis || Month of snakes | |||
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! 7 | |||
| maiyūjmai || Birth of lotus flowers | |||
|- | |||
! 8 | |||
| bhārmāṣyam || Month of lions | |||
|- | |||
! 9 | |||
| rarāyanim || Month of rabbits | |||
|- | |||
! 10 | |||
| nehaušė || Month of tales | |||
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! 11 | |||
| kvælškārai || Month of ''kvælšken'' trees | |||
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! 12 | |||
| nārdhāṣṇam || Month of ''nārdhāṣai'' | |||
|} | |||
''[names of lunar days to be added hopefully soon]'' | |||
There are two strategies used in the Chlouvānem-timekeeping countries in order to realign both the true and bureaucratical lunar days and also the lunar year (408 days) with the solar one (418): | There are two strategies used in the Chlouvānem-timekeeping countries in order to realign both the true and bureaucratical lunar days and also the lunar year (408 days) with the solar one (418): | ||