Edenian Calendar
The Edenian Calendar was established by the Council of Five in 10 CE and aimed to honor the traditions of the five influential cultures who had come to dominate day-to-day life since their arrival a decade earlier. Sadly, however, no one in Eden actually uses it.
Despite the hard work of the five representatives over the course of that year, the calendar fell out of use during the Second Age. The stubborn Earthling refugees who arrived in 114 CE refused to adopt the new system. Once they realized that an Edenian year had exactly the same amount of days as a standard year on Earth, the humans decided to stick with their old, reliable Gregorian calendar.
The rest of the world, seeking the path of least resistance, soon followed suit.
Description
The Edenian Calendar is a lunisolar calendar with 13 months of 28 days each, plus a single-day intercalary period called “Phina’s Day” Each year in the system is exactly 365 days long and is identified by a consecutive year number.
Months are based on the movements of the Yellow Moon in the night sky. A month begins on the day that the moon moves clockwise past 0° north as part of its circular orbit around the point known as volcanus infinitus—a metaphysical extension of the peak of Dükuhüo Aüki.
Weeks are marked by the movements of the Red Moon, the volcanic satellite which passes 0° every seven days.
Month Names
The names of each month were derived primarily from Munchkin and Kédalikín traditions. The Munchkins and the other halfling refugees had long used a 13-month lunisolar calendar, while the Kédaikín had come from a world with five moons. Each contributed six month names to the calendar, while the thirteenth—Yuletide—was taken from Bekiskish, since everyone on the Council liked the sound of it.
| Edenian Month | Gregorian Equivalent |
|---|---|
| Ahappo | January 1–28 |
| Keexkoose | January 29–February 25 |
| Huonu | February 26–March 25 |
| Dobeetae | March 26–April 22 |
| Arabae | April 23–May 20 |
| Reboose | May 21–June 17 |
| Dodeeho | June 18–July 15 |
| Lendatae | July 16–August 12 |
| Abaepo | August 13–September 9 |
| Yookneek | September 10–October 7 |
| Ekatta | October 8–November 4 |
| Mokeedleep | November 5–December 2 |
| Yuletide | December 2–December 30 |
| Phina’s Day | December 31 |
Day Names
Humans, dwarves, and elves split the naming of the first six days of the week evenly amongst themselves. The final day of the week was a Kédalikín contribution. Following a contentious game of Five Card Draw amongst representatives from each culture, the Bekiskish suffix of -day was used for each day name.
- Thuthday, named as a warning against the untruths and willful ignorance of Thuthli’uc—one of the gods despised by the Godless
- Vodinsday, named for one of the 12 holy peaks of the Mountain Worshippers
- Theedsday, named for Thida—the triceratops goddess of the ancient Bekiskapan religion of Hornaism
- Faeday, named by the elves in the hopes of honoring—and pacifying—any malevolent fairies who might be eavesdropping on the meeting
- Saulupsday, inspired by the Thünard word for “flood” and named in honor of the goddess Mira of The Old Faith
- Sonsday, the traditional day of rest for the men of the Bekiskapan culture
- Molsday, inspired by the Moldése word for 'red' and the appearance this day
I love the fact that it was thoroughly developed and that everyone's input was taken and especially that no one uses the damned thing! Very very very much like real life!
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Thanks, man! It was an interesting moment when I added that part in. I was like halfway through the article and I realized "I'm never going to use this in the comic, not with the more general audience I've started to assemble, when I could just say Wednesday or December and have people understand." But I didn't want to throw out all the work I'd done, so I came up with this "nobody uses it" and have been laughing ever since.