Some more thoughts. 1. Do the users of the calendar measure the year in any fixed way? Relatedly, how formalized is this calendar? Because you could just define the beginning of the year as the first new moon after the rainy season starts, or something similar. They wouldn't ahve to count the number of days in a year at all. You wouldn't have an 11 year cycle, though, because you wouldn't have any kind of measured cycle.
2. Is the 11 year cycle the inportant artistic point, or is it the length of the year and month. If I made a more complicated, reasonably stable 11 year cycle by changing the month length around by a few days, would you be interested?
If I did this, do you want formalized counting of the number days in a month, or is it observational; .e. the month starts with the first sighting of the new moon, whatever, regardless of how many days its been. Does the year always begin at the beginnning of a month, or are the parallel runnning cycles that come back into alignment after 11 years, more like the relationship of our weeks to our months or years, than the relationship of our months to our years.
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Date: 2004-10-18 05:04 pm (UTC)1. Do the users of the calendar measure the year in any fixed way? Relatedly, how formalized is this calendar? Because you could just define the beginning of the year as the first new moon after the rainy season starts, or something similar. They wouldn't ahve to count the number of days in a year at all. You wouldn't have an 11 year cycle, though, because you wouldn't have any kind of measured cycle.
2. Is the 11 year cycle the inportant artistic point, or is it the length of the year and month. If I made a more complicated, reasonably stable 11 year cycle by changing the month length around by a few days, would you be interested?
If I did this, do you want formalized counting of the number days in a month, or is it observational; .e. the month starts with the first sighting of the new moon, whatever, regardless of how many days its been.
Does the year always begin at the beginnning of a month, or are the parallel runnning cycles that come back into alignment after 11 years, more like the relationship of our weeks to our months or years, than the relationship of our months to our years.
(I like calendar work :D)