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[Saxon Hawke]

The Calendar is still a work in progress, with Art giving it much love and attention.

http://www.evechronicles.com/imgs/art/apocryphal/mci/intaki_v_lunar_calendar_large.jpg

Art's explanation of how to read the graphic calendar is as follows:

1. The center pinwheel (there should be 20 divisions) represent TWENTY (20) Eve Standard Time months. The EST months are merely for representative and comparative purposes; their purpose is to assist the user of the Intaki V Calendar to compare the length of an Intaki year compared to an EST year.

2. The next section from the center are the holidays. Most of them correspond to annual harvest festivals (hutsavar means festival in Modern Classic Intaki. The following is a listing of the festivals listed on the calendar:

> Kumhbelaa - eleven day holiday, celebrated every 5th year; serves as calendar correction
> Hutsavar Juhambhaatun - New Year Festival
> Hutsavar Idatun - Ida Festival (celebration of all things Ida and Idama)
> Hutsavar Woirhvaaptun - Grapevine Harvest Festival
> Hutsavar Shaylaamyatun - Harvest Festival (general harvest)
> Hutsavar Intaktun - Intaki Festival (celebration of all things Intaki)
> Hutsavar Laangetun - Grain Harvest Festival
> Hutsavar Palandutun - Palandu Harvest Festival
> Hutsavar Vatamatun - Vatama Harvest Festival

For any fiction writers out there: this by no means is representative of all Intaki holidays either on Intaki V or throughout the Diaspora; I only put down the ones that seem to be obvious in a society like that which would exist on Intaki V. I'm sure there are hundreds more that can be explored elsewhere.

3. The next section correspond to the Intaki V seasons, and display the length of each season in relation to the Intaki month, which are the following:

> Vitlakal (Winter) - Juhmbhicandra to Aahmicandra
> Valanay (Spring) - Ramacandra to Intk^hcandra
> Vilaad (Summer) - Naracandra to Shurbhucandra
> Vharlaad (Autumn) - Ca^hacandra to Ulsacandra (and, of course, Kumhbelaa)

4. The following section (the outer wheel) displays the 21 Intaki V months. To reiterate...the Intaki V year is composed of 20 months, each month being 30 days long for a total of 600 days per year. However, the Intaki V solar revolution is actually 602.2 days long. This results in a deviation of eleven days after a period of five years. Thus, the Kumhbelaa celebration serves to correct this deviation. Incidentally, this is why the calendar is referred to as a lunar calendar as opposed to a solar calendar; it is based on the phases of Intaki V's 20 moons, and not on the planets position in relation to the system's sol.

[Isobel Mitar]

The wheel is pretty.

Regarding the harvest festivals, since the year is so long, have you thought about what kind of growth seasons / cycles Intaki Prime might have? Do the native grains and plants have correspondingly longer growth seasons? More harvests in a year?

Contemporary Earth agriculture gets several grain harvests in a year in the warmer areas (2-3). I think Intaki Prime was somewhere referred to as a tropical world, habitable only nearer the poles?