Ghyll:Bursine Calendar
The Bursine Calendar is so named for Bursine the 14th, an otherwise unremarkable Hive-Lord of the Nitenmangrey. Bursine the 14th made a gift of the calendar to his Paramount Queen, Litivia, on their joining day. While any other great works he may have forged have been forgotten by time, his calendar has survived. I applaud the Encyclopedants for adopting it into their new EC notation for this project's Encyclopedant Calendar with nothing more than a reset of the zero year. The old counting system was getting quite unwieldy, so I deem this an acceptable change.
For those unfamiliar with the specific names of the days of the week and months of the year in the old Bursine Calendar (as well as the new dating system adopted by the Encyclopedants for this great work), allow me to list them for you.
Days of the Week: Tuesday, Ulfsday, Varhookan, Ween, Xarochsday, YinYin, Zalestra.
Months of the Year:
- Ablinth
- Baros
- Conti
- Darwina
- E
- Fusil
- Gomin
- Homin
- Ikk
- Jole
- Kendrit
- Lom
Therefore, today's date in EC reckoning of 0/1/12 EC is also "YinYin, the 12th of Ikk of the year 0." I think the old date and day names have much more personality than the dry numerical notation, so I will attempt to use them both in my future entries, and I hope my fellow researchers will as well.
One additional note of interest about the Bursine Calendar is that the best minds of Ghyll still have no idea why, when rendered into core script as I've done above, the days of the week, and months of the year fall into alphabetic order. Core script clearly post-dates the Nitenmangrey by at least a few centuries, so either Bursine himself could see into the future and crafted an elaborate joke for us, or more likely, the original translator of the Bursine Calendar into core script took some aesthetic liberties.
Citations: Encyclopedant Calendar, Hive-Lord, Paramount Queen.
--Qwentyth Pyre 00:29, 12 Sep 2004 (EDT)
