A calendar for our culture

[Spiffor]

I've just been on CFC, and someone asks us when are our holidays. It made me think we have nothing to describe a calendar here :

- no names for days
- no names for weeks (if that applies. Just imagine a system like "Monday Centauriweek September )
- no names for months
- no name of a Biblical reference or somewhat, which is the start of our calendar.

We also didn't decide how many days there are per year (since we have mathematics, the estimate we'll make now will be pretty accurate, and will last for the rest of the game), and thus ho many weeks / months.
Don't forget our planet is not earth, so we can perfectly have less or more days per year than IRL.

[Spiffor]

My suggestions :

First the math. I think we shouldn't have too many days per year.
Maybe 5 days per week, 5 weeks per month, and 14 months for a year. This means 350 days per year.

Such a suggestion would give us to name
- 5 days
- 5 weeks (if we want to)
- 14 months


I don't have all ideas for days, but I suggest days are kept basic : they revolve about fire, water, light, darkness and life, or their respective gods.

If we are to name weeks, I think we should name them after great scientific advancements by the time of Mathematics. For example the "Week of Law" or something. I think this because describing weekly patterns was a breakthrough of science when mathematics came out.

Months should be named after events of people whose very existence honor us. It could also be a way to honor people who were precious for the DemoGame (maybe we could name a month after Trip once he's away)
Our victory on the Americans would clearly deserve becoming the name of a month. How does "Victor" sound for a month ?

A concrete example could be : let's say "Pyro" is the first day of the week, "Lowal" the first week, and "Victor" the first month.
We'd call our virtual 1st day of the year "Pyro Lowal Victor" (ok, I admit Pyro 1st Victor would be easier , but hey, we're here to invent something new, don't we ?)

My suggestions sound pretty lame, even to me. I know we have people with tons of imagination here. Are you interested in elaborating new names ?

[Ninot]

I humbly suggest we use "The Simpsons" as our bible, to which we may quote if we must.

but other than The Simpsons (written by the great Apolytonian writer, Homer).. i suggest most of our little customs and holidays reflect our jungle origins.

[Spiffor]

Ah, BTW, the Biblical reference I'd suggest as the start of our calendar would be our exhodus. Remember : at the very beginning of the game, we pushed our settlers one tile east, to found Apolytonia where it currently lies.

To us, in the comfort of our modern stone houses with whith chimneys and as many bananas as we want, it seems nothing. But to them, this move was a massive undertaking the people never imagined before. They moved for 50 years in hostile forests, to found our Apolyton jewel, to find the promised land.

[/roleplaying]
Actually, this exhodus was the only event to happen 4000BC, and we need a convenient starting point for our calendar if we don't want to lose track with the years the game shows. If our starting point was 1627 BC (random number), we'd lose track extremely quickly.

So, we'd currently be 2950 AE (after exhodus)

[civman2000]

Days should be named after fruit:
Strawbday, Bluebday, Cherriday, Appleday, Peachday, Grapeday, and of course, the holy day, Bananaday.

[GodKing]

Jungle days
banana festival
Watch out for the giant mosquito day
beach party day
coconut clothing day
Trip day
Ninot day
future prez day
porn day (gotta try....)
panther ate my goat day
rainy season
dry season
new year, or death of old year
day of the dead (or walking dead)
the solstice (ie summer day, fall day... not realy good in a jungle)
how many moons do we have? we could have a lunar callender instead of a solar.
Day the big rock hit, killing all the giant lizards
Constitution day
today.

just some ideas

[Spiffor]

Maybe an idea for moons :
We could have 2 moons which revolve around the earth geostatically (I mean, a bit like artifical satellites : they seem not to move when you look at them form the Earth). Each of them would be on one pole, and could be seen only from an hemisphere or another (the nearest you are from the equator, the less you can see their glow).

I'd say the moons should have different colours, to add to the mystical aspect of their glow. Scientifically, this could mean one a volcaneous planetoid (red), and the other a rocky barren planetoid (Moon IRL).
Maybe we could add more geostatical moons, like one for Abananaba major, one for Abananaba minor, one for the other continent (if any), one for the huge ocean (if any).
They could also have yellow and purple glow if we want them to (let's just say there's a thick atmosphere there, which gives these particular colours).

I support having several moons, esp. with different colours and specific locations to spot them, as they'll create many legends.
What do you think ?

[Kramerman]

porn day (gotta try....)

Well, our origins were of skimpy clad jungle amazons being mugged by the neighboring male tribe. The resultimg mix, of course, spawned our civilization. We should remeber our skimpy clad jungle mothers, who fought so hard to protect their femininity, with a day.

Hey, if you guys want, and i would love to try my ability being an ametuer writer i am (check my below link to the current story im writing in the stories forum), I could write up a quick and creative origin of our civ. It could be funny or serious, what ever you want. If not me, I know of a bunch of capable writers in the stories forum who would enjoy a try at this. It would just be for fun.

I second Ninot's idea of the simpsons, civmans fruit idea, and all of Godkings ideas.
EDIT: and spiffors moon idea.

Kman

[Sheik]

Spiffor your moon idea is cool. This overall is a great idea.

[Ninot]

Originally posted by GodKing
Trip day
Ninot day
future prez day

lol, when are we gonna get lazy and declare the three be merged into "Presidents Day"?

[Aro]

Your Creation Myth in “The Epic Tale of Navalon” is very good. I would like to see what you could do for Apolytonia’s myths, our ancient heroes, tales, and legends. Maybe a collection of tales, you can call it "The Origin", or "From the Beginning"...
You can include many ideas, and make this funny and serious at the same time. Follow your heart!
Oh, the Spiffor's moons are remarkable!. Don't forget that!

Lot's of fun.

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Maybe an idea for moons :
We could have 2 moons which revolve around the earth geostatically (I mean, a bit like artifical satellites : they seem not to move when you look at them form the Earth). Each of them would be on one pole, and could be seen only from an hemisphere or another (the nearest you are from the equator, the less you can see their glow).

If the moons revolve around the planet geostatically, they would not be on the poles, at least in this universe ; in fact, to rotate comfortably, any planet uses an axis where the poles are situated

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by Spiffor
My suggestions :

Maybe 5 days per week, 5 weeks per month, and 14 months for a year. This means 320 days per year.

I would say this means rather 350 days per year !
The normal choice for the number of months could have been 10, 12, 15 or 16 (which are numbers dayly used by primitive people). Your choice for 14 proves that either we, Apolytonians, are not so primitive, or we are original, or both

[Spiffor]

I love civman's idea of weekdays named after fruit. It rocks, especially if we use jungle fruit above all. Godking's idea for holidays are also cool, but I think we don't really need a "President day" (we're a Democracy, we'd rather need a "Citizen day"
I think we could add some Monthy Python to the St Homer's bible, and some absurd prophecies of our own

(like : "In many years, a terrible war will happen between the defensers of the Banana faith, and those tainted with apple worshipping. During this war, a great hero will emerge and lead our troops to victory. He will single-handedly slain the antebanana and hundreds of his minions, but will die from his wounds. Without protection from the hero, the dark cult of the Apple will spread throughout our people. Banana trees will wither, shocked by such an insult, and it will be the doom of Apolytonia" OK, I'm not a writer, but you get the jist )


About the moon idea :
Thanks, but I'm not its author In fact, the idea comes from Skies of Arcadia, a Japanese RPG on Dreamcast (and on PS2 - GameCube in several months). If you like Japanese RPGs, this one is a must !

Oh and Davout : Where did I put my mind ? Number corrected.

[civman2000]

Kman, I think you might be a good historian for next term.

Let's say we have a moon that is actually so big it's more like a twin planet .

How about 6 days a week, 6 weeks a month, and 10 months a year? Also, once a month there is a big eclipse from the moon blocking the sun from getting any of the planet except a couple small areas.