Date
[Philip Henry Gosse claims about Creation:] The principle of reason requires that no result be without a cause, and those causes require other causes, which are multiplied regressively; there are concrete vestiges of them all, but only those that are posterior to the Creation have really existed. There are glyptodont skeletons in the gorge of LujĂĄn, but glyptodonts never existed ⊠Bertrand Russell has brought the thesis up to date ⊠he theorises that the planet was created a few minutes ago, with a humanity that âremembersâ an illusory past.
Russellâs idea is inconsequent, of course. The world hasnât been created yet, and God is still pondering how the world should look on the day of creation; and we are part of His thoughts.
Thinking again: maybe He forbears from creating the world. It seems to be working quite well without existing.
Sun calendar
The modern calendar divides the year (OtĂ.) into 52 weeks (djĂvf.) of 7 days (djĂt.) each, plus one or two additional days. The weekdaysâ names are compounds with inherited names of gods such as djĂt xsrĂU. day-acc1 Venus-acc-ben2. âVenusâs daytime, the daytime for Venusâ â â djUtxsrĂ. day-ben-Venus-acc1.. The following nights are the analogous compounds with ytfĂ. ânightâ; and if really necessary, the 24-hour periods (midnight to midnight) can be expressed as compounds with krilmrĂj. â65536 Lemizh time unitsâ.
The patron gods are the principal gods of the ancient Lemizh pantheon, the same after which the seven classical planets are named. The modern names of these gods (and their associated planets) are academic loans from Old Lemizh, which in some cases sound quite different from the inherited ones although they are cognates. The usual English translations of the weekdaysâ names are based on the respective planets, which causes some inconsistency for the first day of the week. The Terrestrial day is the weekly holiday.
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ly 5156 | Th | Fr | Sa | Su | Mo | Tu | We |
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lweek | Ă | Ă | Ă | Ă | Ă | Ă | Ă |
46th | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
47th | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 |
48th | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 |
49th | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
50th | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 |
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The links in the following table lead to the relevant entries in the dictionary.
Lemizh day | Patron god with symbol | Translation (planet) | Our equivalent | ||
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djUtxmĂj. | niftnĂj. | Neptune/Poseidon | Ă | Uranian day | Sunday |
djUtnĂt. | djistnĂt. | Saturn/Kronos | Ă | Saturnian day | Monday |
djUtfrĂg. | frekrĂf. | Mars/Ares | Ă | Martian day | Tuesday |
djUtĂxk. | OnkrĂt. | Mercury/Hermes | Ă | Mercurian day | Wednesday |
djUtxĂps. | djeipysrĂd. | Jupiter/Zeus | Ă | Jovian day | Thursday |
djUtxsrĂ. | usrĂ. | Venus/Aphrodite | Ă | Venerian day | Friday |
djUtxnĂ. | djingmesrĂ. | Terra/Gaia | Ă | Terrestrial day | Saturday |
For the first 52 Ă 7 = 364 days of the year, the complete date comprises a dayâs name, a weekâs number and a year.
Following convention, the last day of the year is called the Neptunian day (djUtfĂps.). It is actually named for the Midwinter God, and the planet Neptune was named after the same god when in was discovered in modern times, to keep the tradition of having corresponding planet and day names. Leap years have a leap day (djyttĂcd., lit. âa day moreâ) immediately before the Neptunian. Leap years are the ones that can be divided by four (that is, their unit or last digit is 0, 4, 8 or C), but not by 128 (their unit and sixteens digits, or the last two digits, are neither 00 nor 80). Neptunian and leap days do not have a week number.
The first day of the Lemizh year corresponds roughly to 20th December. To get the Lemizh year, add 1463 to the Gregorian year. During the last days of December, add 1464.
31ĂŹR djUtxmyjĂ 1424ĂŹRoR. | 31hex = 49th Uranian day in the 1424hex = 5156th year | 19th November 3693 | |
49-egr1 day-ben-Uranus-acc-acc2 5156-egr-eps2. | |||
1424-31-Ă | 3693-11-19 |
Dates are mainly used as temporal objects: âon 19th Novemberâ as a temporal (aR) or episodic (oR) or an âinsideâ construction; âfrom 19th Novemberâ as an ingressive (eR); âuntil 19th Novemberâ as an egressive (iR). Pure days and nights of the week â without a week number â are interpretable as continuous things and thus donât need âinsideâ constructions.
The time spanning weeks 1 to 13 is usually called âwinterâ (qĂs.) although this doesnât quite match the astronomical definition. Weeks 14 to 26 are colloquially âspringâ (RĂsw.), weeks 27 to 39 are referred to as âsummerâ (lĂqx.), and 40 to 52 as âautumnâ (hkĂt.).
Moon calendar
The old Ghean Moon calendar is still in use, especially for calculating some long-standing holidays and for other formal purposes such as announcing wedding dates.
It is based on synodic months (xarĂhk., months aligned to the lunar phases) with lengths of 29 or 30 days. The first day of a month approximately coincides with the new moon. A lunar year (OteihkĂ.) mostly consists of 14, sometimes 13 months, and sixteen lunar years complete a saros of 223 synodic months or about 18 solar years.
Normally, months with odd numbers have 29 days, and those with even numbers have 30 days, totalling 413 days in a standard lunar year. In years with even numbers that are not divisible by 16, the third month also has 30 days; and lunar years that can be divided by 16 are missing the fourteenth month. This results in a total length of 6585 days for sixteen lunar years. Additionally, if a lunar year is divisible by 48, its third month also has 30 days.
The 19th November 3693 roughly corresponds to lunar year â3608, month 2, day 9 (= âE18â2â9hex). This conversion is uncertain because at some point in the future a day might be skipped to keep the Moon calendar in sync with the lunar phases, as has been done in the past. The minus sign stems from the fact that lunar years used to be counted backwards, but when the year zero arrived and nothing happened, people continued with negative numbers.