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== The Chlouvānem calendar == | == The Chlouvānem calendar == | ||
=== Solar months and seasons === | === Solar months and seasons === | ||
The solar and sidereal year of Calémere (in Chlouvānem ''heirah'') is 418 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''). | 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 year added at the end of the last month. | ||
The month names reflect climatic conditions of those particular months 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 grouped in four “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 two 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 month names reflect climatic conditions of those particular months 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 grouped in four “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 two 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). | ||
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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 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 autumn equinox (''kanampeiṃlalyā'') is the first day of the year, and likewise the spring equinox (''tandayempeiṃlalyā'') is on the (functional) mid-point the year, being the first day of the eighth month — it is not the true mid-point because seasons are not equal: spring is the longest with 108 days, then autumn with 107, winter with 103, and summer with 100. Thus the first part of the year has 210 days while the second one has 208.<br/> | The autumn equinox (''kanampeiṃlalyā'') is the first day of the year, and likewise the spring equinox (''tandayempeiṃlalyā'') is on the (functional) mid-point the year, being the first day of the eighth month — it is not the true mid-point because seasons are not equal: spring is the longest with 108 days, then autumn with 107, winter with 103, and summer with 100/101. Thus the first part of the year has 210 days while the second one has 208/209.<br/> | ||
The winter solstice (''tandaikyuñcehånna'') is on the fifteenth day of the fourth month, while the summer solstice (''enaukyuñcehånna'') falls on the thirteenth day of the eleventh month. The solar months of the Chlouvānem calendar are: | The winter solstice (''tandaikyuñcehånna'') is on the fifteenth day of the fourth month, while the summer solstice (''enaukyuñcehånna'') falls on the thirteenth day of the eleventh month. The solar months of the Chlouvānem calendar are: | ||
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| '''Camirādhās''' || 30 || 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 Māltapārṇāvi is the third day of the twenty-first Western month; the first day of the Western year is the 21st day of Murkāsena. | As a comparison with the Western calendar used in most of the planet, the first day of Māltapārṇāvi is the third day of the twenty-first Western month; the first day of the Western year is the 21st day of Murkāsena. | ||
====Leap days==== | |||
Leap days are added based on a 39-year cycle, where the 7th year of the cycle is a leap year, and thereafter a leap day is added to every 8th year, thus to the 15th, 23rd, 31st, and 39th of each cycle. | |||
=== Lunar months and "weeks" === | === Lunar months and "weeks" === | ||