Re: Seasons

From: Alex Ferguson <abf_at_cs.ucc.ie>
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 20:52:52 GMT

Trotsky says, ingenuously:
> One common definition of the seasons used in the RW is that the first
> day of spring is the Spring Equinox, the first day of summer is the Summer
> Solstice, etc. Working from that, its fairly easy to calculate the Glorantha
> equivalents, with spring starting at the beginning of the year, summer
> starting at Yelm's HHD, etc.

You'd think so, eh? <grimace> Current Thinking(TM) is that the "celestiological" seasons are a tad lop-sided, and so the "quarter days"... well, aren't. They may (or may not) be as follows:

VE: Freeze/Disorder/Sea
SS: Fire/Harmony/Fire
AE: Clay/Fertility/Earth
WS: Fire/Illusion/Dark

Makes good mythic sense, kinda whacky, though.

Slan,
Alex.

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