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The solar and sidereal year of Calémere (in Chlouvānem ''heirah'') is 418.1282 Calemerian days long (about 609.6 days on Earth), and this period is divided, in the Chlouvānem calendar, in fourteen mostly arbitrary months (''asena'', pl. ''asenai'') which are grouped by season (''demibuñjñasusah''). Common years have 418 days; leap years have 419, with one day added at the end of the last month. | The solar and sidereal year of Calémere (in Chlouvānem ''heirah'') is 418.1282 Calemerian days long (about 609.6 days on Earth), and this period is divided, in the Chlouvānem calendar, in fourteen mostly arbitrary months (''asena'', pl. ''asenai'') which are grouped by season (''demibuñjñasusah''). Common years have 418 days; leap years have 419, with one day added at the end of the last month. | ||
Ten out of the fourteen month names are related to constellations transited through during that month; two of them are related to religion and two are related to climatical conditions in the Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain, the “heartlands” of the Chlouvānem civilization. Not all of the Inquisition, due to different climates and latitudes, has the same conditions — and the months are officially grouped in four astronomical “seasons”, corresponding to the temperate areas of the Northern hemisphere (about 90% of the population of the Inquisition is north of the Equator, and most areas in the Southern hemisphere do not have distinct seasons anyway). This is despite the Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain itself having mostly either two or six popularly defined seasons (and some parts of the “heartlands” even have no seasons, most notably the area around Līlasuṃghāṇa, which has a local “equatorial” microclimate despite being nearly 15º north of the Equator). | |||
The four seasons the calendar is based on are autumn (''kanami''), winter (''tandaikin''), spring (''tandayena'') and summer (''enaukam''), in the order they appear in the year — these ones are defined by equinoxes and solstices and not by climate alone (even if the origins of their names, all Toyubeshian, are related to climate). Climatic seasons are totally not uniform across the Inquisition: even in the Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain, the two seasons (''būṃṣoe'' or dry season and ''dašoe'' or rainy/monsoon season) have vastly different start/end dates and lengths in it. Some areas even define more than four seasons: in and around the metropolitan area of Cami (the most populated on the planet), five seasons are traditionally distinguished, with rain patterns being the defining factor (that area having a markedly wet humid subtropical climate). | The four seasons the calendar is based on are autumn (''kanami''), winter (''tandaikin''), spring (''tandayena'') and summer (''enaukam''), in the order they appear in the year — these ones are defined by equinoxes and solstices and not by climate alone (even if the origins of their names, all Toyubeshian, are related to climate). Climatic seasons are totally not uniform across the Inquisition: even in the Nīmbaṇḍhāra plain, the two "broad" seasons (''būṃṣoe'' or dry season and ''dašoe'' or rainy/monsoon season) have vastly different start/end dates and lengths in it. Some areas even define more than four seasons: in and around the metropolitan area of Cami (the most populated on the planet), five seasons are traditionally distinguished, with rain patterns being the defining factor (that area having a markedly wet humid subtropical climate). The two seasons of the Plain are often divided into six: spring (''havurṣa''), summer (''jūnivā''), monsoon season (''dāšikā''), early/rainy autumn (''nuraima''), late/drier autumn (''lūveṣa''), and winter (''kāriyūṇam'')<ref>Note that while an English season term may be translated with two different Chlouvānem words, those are not synonyms in Chlouvānem. For example, ''havurṣa'' only refers to a certain season as defined by people from the monsonic-climate Plain; ''tandayena'' is a different season in temperate areas, and the term used for the astronomical season when days lengthen and the day is longer than the night.</ref>. | ||
: ''→ See [[Chlouvānem/Lexicon#Seasons_across_the_Inquisition|Chlouvānem lexicon § Seasons across the Inquisition]] for more.'' | : ''→ See [[Chlouvānem/Lexicon#Seasons_across_the_Inquisition|Chlouvānem lexicon § Seasons across the Inquisition]] for more.'' | ||
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| ''' | | '''Pārghuṇai''' || 30 || of the chameleon (''pṛghuṇa'') || <small>1st day:</small> ''(northern) autumn equinox''; ranire nājaṣrān <small>(Chlouvānem New Year)</small> | ||
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| ''' | | '''Gaulkāvi''' || 29 || of the coral (''gulkah'') || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Mālutaivrai''' || 30 || of the ''mālutīvram'' (a type of snake) || <small>4th day:</small> hīmbajaṃšā | ||
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| ''' | | '''Pāṇḍalañši''' || 29 || white braid || <small>15th day:</small> ''(northern) winter solstice''; camilalyājaṃšā | ||
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| ''' | | '''Haunyai''' || 31 || of the toucan (''hånya'') || <small>10th day:</small> Day of the Inquisition | ||
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| ''' | | '''Laindyai''' || 30 || of the river otter (''linda'') || <small>17th day:</small> Day of the Legions for Purity | ||
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| ''' | | '''Martaṣārī''' || 30 || of the gatekeeper (''martaṣari'') || <small>10th day:</small> maivajaṃšā | ||
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| ''' | | '''Uṣraumaṇai''' || 30 || of the ''uṣrūmaṇa'' (a small tree-dwelling bear) || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Kirmadārī''' || 29 || of the iron-forger (''kirmadarīn'') || | ||
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| '''Bhaivyāvammi''' || 30 || of the oboes<ref> | | '''Bhaivyāvammi''' || 30 || of the oboes<ref>Named after the ''Bhaivyāvāṣaryai'', lit. “night(s) of oboes”, the most important religious festival of the Yunyalīlta.</ref> || <small>13th day:</small> ''(northern) summer solstice''<br/><small>15th to 18th day:</small> bhaivyāvāṣaryai | ||
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| ''' | | '''Rāvaiṣai''' || 29 || of the ''rāvīsas'' (a small freshwater shark-like fish) || | ||
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| ''' | | '''Prātuṣāmī''' || 31 || of the wind-leader (''prātuṣāmis'') || <small>4th day:</small> kaili jaṃšā<br/><small>28th day:</small> Birthday of the Great Inquisitor <small>(as of 3874 (6424<sub>10</sub>)</small> | ||
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| '''Camirādhās''' || 30/31 || great green || | | '''Camirādhās''' || 30/31 || great green || | ||
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As a comparison with the Western calendar used in most of the planet, the first day of | As a comparison with the Western calendar used in most of the planet, the first day of Pārghuṇai is the one of the first four days (depending on leap years) of the twenty-first Western month; the first day of the Western year is the 21st±2 day of Haunyai. | ||
====Leap days==== | ====Leap days==== | ||