Eastern Calender

From: Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:28:24 +1300


Nils Weinander:

>> >The ancestral dragons are not known
>> >in the rest of the east and the number six has no special
>> >mythic significance.
 

>> But the calender makes no mention of dragons. What it does
>> say is the Month of Silence, Spirit etc.

>I have never seen these name in any other context than as
>the names (titles?) of the ancestral dragons. Do you have
>any other references?

The Calender itself describes those names as months and says nothing about dragons. Other nations that use the calender would interpret the six differently: the Vormaino might interpret it as six colors, the Ignorants the six suns and the Teshnans umm... perhaps they lost one through the God Learners?

>One could argue for using the same month and week division
>all over the east, but the number six has no mythic
>significance in Vithela.

But it could have a mythic significance in _Abzered_, which Kralorela was part of. The only people to believe in six in the East Isles in this case would be the Vormaino who do not believe in the standard Vithelan mythology (with the ten Avanparloth anyway).

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