Phase Courtesies

From: Nick Brooke <Nick_Brooke_at_btinternet.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:41:05 -0000


Theo writes an excellent piece of Lunar customs and courtesies.

> Elaborate rules of courtesy have been written which divide acts into
> different lunar phases.

My three observations:

  1. It seems to me (by analogy with phases and magic) more likely the divisions are "Full, Half, Crescent and Black," rather than "Full, Full Half, Empty Half and Black."
  2. This is clearly adapting Carmanian legal terminology, and there is probably a Carmanian predecessor code. Think of the Black & White Laws, "Everything not Forbidden is Compulsory", and the five legal tiers of RW Sharia law (which inspired the former).
  3. Probably most people in the Empire don't know anything about elaborate written rules of courtesy. Though they do, of course, exist. And they may, of course, be followed -- sans unnecessary elaborations -- far more widely than they are read.

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