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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 418.1282 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 | 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 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). | ||