If you're reading this, then you probably use the Ternus Calendar, which is a holdover from ancient Terra. There are twelve months, and seven days in the week, just like the ancient calendar of the Dragonflights.
Anyway, before we go any further we should talk acronyms. When you see dates with letters appended they correspond to one of the following:
- PGW - Pre-Godswar
- EDF or DF - Era of the Dragonflights
- BSC - Before Shayan Calendar
- SC - Shayan Calendar also known as the modern era.
- TC - Terran Calendar.
My research into the Terran calendar suggests that both the months and the days of the week correspond to ancient deities, real or imagined, or to cosmic bodies.
For example
Thursday is Thor's Day.
Wednesday is Woden's Day.
Friday is Freya's Day.
Saturday belongs to Saturn, a planet in the Terran system.
Sunday is the day of the sun.
Monday, or Lunae in their ancient tongue, corresponds to the moon.
The ancient calendar of the dragonflights was separated by a hundred millennia, and thousands of light years, yet is nearly identical. What's interesting, and frightening, is that both have 365 days. In the case of the ancient Terran calendar their scholars know why. The Calendar was tied to the rotation of the planet around their star. Makes sense, right?
So why is the holy, ancient, cosmic equivalent almost identical? Why does it have the same number of days? Did it originate on earth somehow? That shouldn't be possible, and the Calendar of the Dragonflights is much, much older than Terra's.
It's a mystery I intend to solve. There is a divine significance in the way the calendar works, in the number of months, and days. Like most patterns in our universe it repeats over and over, everywhere I look. There must be a reason.
The Calendar of the Dragonflights
- 12 months, each 30 days long.
- 5 days of Calibration (December 26 - 30), when the laws of the universe are in abeyance.
Each month is numbered, so January roughly corresponds to first month, and February corresponds to second, etc. Their days of the week break down like this:
- Monday = lifeday = Ankhday
- Tuesday = airday = Shuday
- Wednesday = dreamday = Khonday
- Thursday = fireday = Khetday
- Friday = earthday = Gebday
- Saturday = spiritday = Tuatday
- Sunday = waterday = Mymday
Scholars will note that
void got shafted, and doesn't get a day. Instead, the five days of Calibration are devoted to the void. They are considered a time to redress wrongs, conduct illicit business, end relationships, and otherwise press the reset button on your life.
Once Calibration ends and we enter the first month the renewal begins, and whatever happened during Calibration stays there. If the myths are to be believed some universal laws and concepts shatter during Calibration. Imagine something like wind, or gravity, or something else we take for granted just...stopping. It's gone for five days. I don't know how true it is, but if you search Quantum you'll find a ton of anecdotal stories.
This is why people avoid leaving the house during Calibration, even if they think it's just a silly superstition. I use that time to reflect, and goof off, and play video games.
We don't know the true origins or significance of the Dragonflight Calendar, but theirs is certainly the earliest example I can find of the pattern I mentioned. Given the seeming divine connection I suspect the Calendar may actually be woven into the Great Cycle itself.
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