Alex and Joerg - thanks for your thoughtful responses on death, hell and heroquesting. And Joerg, those *technical* bits on archery were brillig!
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Heys Folks,
So Gian, how was Damascus? :)
GLORANTHAN PREGNANCY
Roger McCarthy:
> (BTW how long do pregnancies last in Glorantha - 4 seasons would be about
> right assuming that Gloranthan days are about 20% longer than earth days
> so
> the birth would be somewhere between Fire season 1604 and Fire/1605).
As Alex noted, there has been ongoing inconsistency on this, and reflecting as it does on the basic forms of Gloranthan time and space, its about time it got finally sorted.
I asked Greg about it directly a few weeks ago, and his response then was
>9/12 OF A [Gloranthan] YEAR.
That is, in direct ratio to human pregnancy (in months) against the terran
year. I've refined that to 294/365 when calculating human and domestic
animal pregnancies. [Ratio of Gloranthan days in a year to earthly days in
a
year]. Using that equation, Gloranthan human pregnancy is 280*294/365 = 225,
which I'd shorten to 224 days or 4 seasons, giving the same day and week to
both conception and birth, (barring Sacred Time complications ).
Estrus cycles, however, I would keep as the equivalent number of days as on Earth.
Hopefully some sort of unequivocal answer will feature in the Orlanthi life section of Thunder Rebels, though as yet I make no promises or predictions.
On earth, animal fertility cycles have evolved around the cycles of the seasons, with mating, pregnancy and birth occurring at the most environmentally opportune times. Because of this, I think there is a lot of work still to be done in understanding Gloranthan animal life-cycles, rather than relying too heavily on direct mathematical correspondences. Is this John making yet *another* plea to take everyday animal life and non-terran seasonal progressions more seriously? I'm afraid it is. <g>.
Cheers
John
Language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
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