Time Systems and Calendars (Part 2)

Greetings again. It has been a little while since my last post, therefore I would like to use this preface to remind my readers what was discussed previously. In short, I showed the differences between Eurothia’s time system, and how it related to Earth’s time system, and thus my birth-date on each planet. Now, I would like to pick up where I left off, and describe in more detail the 10 months. 

As I mentioned, each month is precisely 42 days long. This weather/season system I am about to describe holds true for all five planets (except Barren, because it has such an odd orbital track). Let us just dive right in. 

The first month is called Xdwytoe–pronounced “Pruinae,” much like the Latin word for frost. Clearly, you should already be able to tell our language translates into some outlandish words using your alphabet. The word I have just given was not, in fact, how it was written for us. We had our own alphabet, which I cannot write here.

I referenced the dead-language Latin. That is correct: most of our language sounds like it. Therefore, given a key, one can translate between each language by finding the correct word in Latin, translating it into the correlating letters of the English alphabet, and finally translating it into the Eurothian alphabet.

But I digress. Our language is a discussion for another time. Currently, we are focused on the months, and the reason behind their names. Xdwytoe was our first month, and it was the coldest one–thus the Latin meaning of frost. I sense a list of the months and their meanings would suffice in this scenario. Therefore:

Xdwytoe = Pruinae (Latin for frost) – First month

Hdyqwz = Frigus (Latin for cold) – second month

Desetz = Recens (Latin for breezy) – third month

Oejwwb = aequum (Latin for fair) – fourth month

Soryfwb = calidum (Latin for warm) – fifth month

Bezzyz = messis (Latin for harvest) – sixth month

Temwrazwz = nebulosus (Latin for foggy) – seventh month

Mdelygoz = brevitas (Latin for shortness) – eighth month

Sdexwzswrwb = crepusculum (Latin for twilight) – ninth month

Owdado = aurora (Latin for dawn) – tenth month

I should think that the first seven months are pretty self-explanatory. They show how the seasons progress from cold to warmth; however, the last three (shortness, twilight, and dawn) may require some extra explanation. You see, our planets had a funny orbital track. Clearly, in the cold months, we were farther away from our suns, and in the warm months, we came a bit closer. One should think that half-way around it should become cold again, but instead it stayed warm and our planets went into a mostly dark period for a month, then light came back during the last month and our cycle repeated. During this constant-twilight period, most of us try to stay indoors to observe silence and tranquility. There were a few celebrations during this time, in which we lit thousands of multicolored lights; however, for most of the month we were unable to work on much, and thus lived in quiet and peace as much as possible. Many of us considered it our de-stressing months, even though there was little to be stressed about. 

Finally, if there are any questions about the information I have given, I would be delighted to expand on my planet’s old history. 

~Ranguvar