Calendar Taster
Added 2021-06-22 02:20:01 +0000 UTCAs mentioned in my previous post on the Lunar Gifts, Illyria's closes moon orbits 11 times a year. You may be wondering how this translates to the calendar used by the part of the world that Rowan lives in. In this taster I will be answering that question.
I will start with the length of the year as that is also an important factor. Illyria orbits the Heart of the Sun every 335.5 Illyrian days. This translates to around 331 Earth days. A lunar month is 30.5 Illyrian days. You will note that as you will get 11 if you divide the number of days in a year by the number of days in a month, this would allow for a perfect Lunar Calendar.
Unfortunately, due to 11 being prime it can't divide further to nicely break up the seasons. As such, I will now go into how they solved this issue. As seasons are a function of Illyria's relationship with her Father, the Heart of the Sun, they decided to capitalise on His sacred primes, which are 2 and 5. As such, Llen Fær and the nearby countries count 5 seasons, each one being 2 months long. These months are 30 days long and have four weeks that alternate between 7 and 8 days. The 8th day of the longer weeks is referred to as a Day of Rest.
Now you may be wondering where the remaining 35 days come from. Between the seasons their are 5 inter-calendar weeks. There is a leap year every 2 years where the extra day is added to the Winter Solstice inter-calendar week.
I will be posting a deeper dive tomorrow for Divine Scholars and above.
