Calendrical Notes
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Calendrical Notes
The Duchy of Min divides up the 360-day year into 15 months of 24 days each. New Year’s Day is celebrated at the beginning of autumn; each season is about 90 days long. Each day is 14 hours but one hour on Osecou is about 1.65 hours on Earth; thus, the days are about the same length as Earth days. Minae count the years from the date of landing on the island; the story starts on 24th Cufaito in the year 709.
The months are as follows, with any key solar holidays in parentheses.
Shyshik (Goavimus/New Year’s Day/First of Autumn) Airoreiph (Daer/Autumnal Equinox) Ibog Sephai (Loasil/First of Winter) Cufaito Sur (Toash/Winter Solstice/Shortest Day) Beilok Ishei (Oroaralra/First of Spring) Waiwod Phamei (Thoans/Vernal Equinox) Ashqi Cige (Ininneli/First of Summer) Oidu Rew (Adivus/Summer Solstice/Shortest Night) Nocu (Lenma; End of Year Celebration)
There is also a lunar calendar of holidays; they fall in different places each year. The two key holidays in this story are Shoron and Saeas Night. Shoron is the closest full moon to the Shortest Day, or Winter Solstice, and Saeas Night is the first new moon after Shortest Day.
Chapters done from the point of view of native Minae will have the dates at the beginning. The rest of the chapters will not.
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