The Sviran Calendar
Twelve months in a year, 30 days in a month (360 days/year)
Calmar - the month of Peace
Tylain - the month of the World
Moc - the month of Strength
Zalu - the month of Passion
Bohatsvo - the month of Fortune
Estral - the month of the Stars
Mudri - the month of the Sage
Prirody - the month of Nature
Umier - the month of the Scythe
Stastna - the month of the Sun
Hene - the month of the Moon
Vdek - the month of Mortals
The seasons of the year roughly follow the pattern of those in the Northern Hemisphere of Earth.
"The order of the months is unlike any other system structured on the Pantheon in Sviran culture. While in the vast majority of references you will find the deities organized in the same way - Peace Strength Fortune Nature Passion Sage Scythe Sun Moon - in the calendar system there is no recognizable pattern, and the deities are interspersed with more rarely-used symbology: that of the Stars, the World, and most rare of all, the Mortals. Nowhere else in the study of Svira is there such a blatant acknowledgement (and, frankly, honoring) of the peoples who worship, rather than those who are worshipped. Astonishing as it is, there also seems to be a claim of freedom in the last month being dedicated to themselves, after eleven months of slogging through everyone else. But I digress.
If one plumbs the depths of bureaucratic documents and interparty memos, one can indeed discover the origins of the strange arrangement of the months. It appears that each Church wanted to be the first of the year, of course; but they also each wanted the month most aligned with their deity, and not to be next to their opposite, and definitely not last, while there were other factions fighting for representation, one even radically suggesting the naming be based on something, anything, that was NOT the patheon (and I believe this faction is responsible for the unique inclusion of mortals in the final decision).
And though I know I do go on about this at length now, but one last interesting point of notice is that the lingual origins of the chosen names vary greatly between the months. As it turns out, this is mostly due to miscommunication, disagreements, spite, and other shortcomings quite common in mortals."
as written by Scholar-Mage Ehsan Farah
Tylain - the month of the World
Moc - the month of Strength
Zalu - the month of Passion
Bohatsvo - the month of Fortune
Estral - the month of the Stars
Mudri - the month of the Sage
Prirody - the month of Nature
Umier - the month of the Scythe
Stastna - the month of the Sun
Hene - the month of the Moon
Vdek - the month of Mortals
The seasons of the year roughly follow the pattern of those in the Northern Hemisphere of Earth.
"The order of the months is unlike any other system structured on the Pantheon in Sviran culture. While in the vast majority of references you will find the deities organized in the same way - Peace Strength Fortune Nature Passion Sage Scythe Sun Moon - in the calendar system there is no recognizable pattern, and the deities are interspersed with more rarely-used symbology: that of the Stars, the World, and most rare of all, the Mortals. Nowhere else in the study of Svira is there such a blatant acknowledgement (and, frankly, honoring) of the peoples who worship, rather than those who are worshipped. Astonishing as it is, there also seems to be a claim of freedom in the last month being dedicated to themselves, after eleven months of slogging through everyone else. But I digress.
If one plumbs the depths of bureaucratic documents and interparty memos, one can indeed discover the origins of the strange arrangement of the months. It appears that each Church wanted to be the first of the year, of course; but they also each wanted the month most aligned with their deity, and not to be next to their opposite, and definitely not last, while there were other factions fighting for representation, one even radically suggesting the naming be based on something, anything, that was NOT the patheon (and I believe this faction is responsible for the unique inclusion of mortals in the final decision).
And though I know I do go on about this at length now, but one last interesting point of notice is that the lingual origins of the chosen names vary greatly between the months. As it turns out, this is mostly due to miscommunication, disagreements, spite, and other shortcomings quite common in mortals."
as written by Scholar-Mage Ehsan Farah
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