Gandahrahn time

An hour is made up of three hundred minutes
A day is 24 hours long
Breakfast is during the 5 th hour
Lunch is during the 12 th hour
Dinner is longest, during the 19 th and 20 th hours
Twelve days makes up a Gandahrahn week, called a juuni. The names of the days in order are:

• Haerasuto
• Lajurosu
• Faras
• Adorun
• Dagoru
• Marujuin
• Karuninguru
• Bararu
• Ianto
• Earenya
• Garachirion
• Kabedo

Each season has three months of seven juuni each. There are celebrations at the beginning of each season, of five days each. The year starts with the winter season, followed by spring, summer and autumn. The months of the year, with their rough oldEarth correlations, are:

• Arenya (December)
• Bara (January)
• Paruma (February)
• Roende (March)
• Sarun (April)
• Yanta (May)
• Rasuto (June)
• Tararu (July)
• Jurosu (August)
• Maruju (September)
• Karuni (October)
• Ujun (November)

There is also the year-end Rialla festival, lasting three juuni. Thus, in total, there are 1064 days in a Gandahrahn year.

It should also be mentioned that since Humans came to Gandahrah, the more peaceful of them have brought along the ideas of some holidays. Thus, there are Gandahrah equivalents of, most notably, Valentine’s Day (more commonly known as Lover’s Day), Easter (Renewal to Gandahrahns), as well as Arbor Day in September, Halloween (or Liar’s Moon, as it’s the one night of the year when everyone can pretend to be something else), Thanksgiving, and Christmas (without the religious connotations). Of course, any of these holidays tend to be three times as long as their oldEarth counterparts, given the extreme length of the Gandahrahn calendar year.

Zodiac

As with any civilized world, time is viewed as a cycle of sorts. Thus is the case with the months and years of Gandahrah, which belong to a zodiac of 12 for both months and years. The following list is a brief description of each zodiac sign, as well as their correlating month and year in a twelve-year cycle.

• Manticore – The legendary man-lion of Indian folklore, this manticore has the face of a human, the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion. The Manticore is the sign of Arenya, as well as the first year of the cycle.
• Kueta – A relative of the dragon race, this creature has dragon-like wings, two feline forelegs, large hindlegs, and fur that resembles a leopard or a jaguar. The Kueta is the sign of Bara, and the second year.
• Bantenari – A king of lion/tiger creature, four-legged with a set of underdeveloped arm-like forelimbs and two, sometimes three, heads. The Bantenari is the sign of Paruma, and the third year.
• Rainbow Dragon – A legendary figure of Dragon lore, considered to be the greatest ancestor of the draconic races. The Rainbow Dragon is the sign of the fourth year, and the month of Roende.
• Skywhale – A creature that resembles a whale with several long tails and wings like a dragonfly’s. The Skywhale is the sign of the fifth year and the month of Sarun.
• Sky Fox – A mythical figure, considered a form of Inari, and thus, one of the most sacred star-pictures. The Sky Fox is the sign of the sixth year and the month of Yanta.
• Yaba – A bizarre, yet naturally-evolved, Gandahrah creature, with the arms, chest and torso of a human, head of a lion, the short legs and feet of a bird, fin-like wings and the tail of a snake. The Yaba is sacred to the seventh year and the month of Rasuto.
• Star Bear – A mythical constellation from ancient times, also known on oldEarth as Ursa Major. The Star Bear is the sign of the eighth year and the month of Tararu.
• Lavaleopard – A natural creature of Gandahrah, which resembles a fire-red, gold and black leopard of flame. The Lavaleopard is sacred to the ninth year and the month of Jurosu, during which it is forbidden by divine edict to hunt the animal.
• Star Rider – Also known as Taslinka, the Faerie First One, this sign is a Faerie woman astride a horse. The Star Rider is the sign of the tenth year and the month of Maruju.
• Nightwalker – A mysterious sign, this zodiac is often depicted as a human-like figure with no distinguishing marks or features, derived from ancient legends of a ghoulish figure that devoured all that makes a person unique and individual. The Nightwalker is the sign of the eleventh year and the month of Karuni, which are thus considered times of ill omen.
• Night Dancers – This sign is depicted as a pair of dancers, who can be any gender known. The Night Dancers are sacred to the twelfth year and the month of Ujun.