(Book) Interpreting the Calendar of Raqqos

Interpreting the Calendar of Raqqos is a handbook written by Mashid Shawadih-Wadih, Scholar of Numeralism at the Raqqos Academy, and Ignatius Filo, Professor of Occidental Studies at Watchtower College, Pembleton and Scholar Affiliate of the Archaeologist's Guild, in 51 GE, and published by the Raqqos Academy Press.
The book was written by the partners "in the interests of international understanding and brotherhood" in the words of Filo, and "because everyone kept getting the dates wrong, and we realised that if we wrote a book to make converting them easier we'd make bank", according to now-Consul Shawadih-Wadih.
The book covers the basics of how the Raqqosi dating system operates, its history and cultural significance. It also includes a conversion table at the back of the volume.
== Frontispiece ==
INTERPRETING THE RAQQOSIAN CALENDAR
By Mashid Shawadih-Wadih, RA, and Ignatius Filo, UOP, AG
51 G.E. (421st Silkworm)
1st Edition
Raqqos Academy Press
== Chapter I- Introduction ==
The Raqqosian calendar is not a recent invention, like the common standardised calendar widely used in the modern Centrelands, that of the "Great Era". Yet neither is it as unwieldy or culturally dependent as those of Oriental nations such as Pem or Alleuria's regnal calendars, or the three intersecting astrological calendars that were the invention of the High Astrologers of Peshwamanar. 
By contrast, the calendar of Raqqos, and of their forebears the Ankhosi, is a splendidly simple affair, with only four official 'years' which are named after those things which the ancient citizens of Ankh, and which rotate in sequence.
These are:
# The Year of Sun
# The Year of Spice
# The Year of the Silkworm
# The Year of the City
The four-year cycle of these which the Raqqosian calendar is comprised of is commonly referred to by Raqqosians as an 'Olympiad'. It is thought that this name may be derived from an Argaivian root, 'Olympios'. 'Olym' meaning year, 'pios' meaning four. There are certainly similarities in what we know of the Argaivian dating system, which also relied on a four-year cycle. However the names of the years themselves are distinctly different from that of ancient Ankh, reflecting the wildly differing priorities of the two ancient civilisations.
All dates are written with reference to the number Olympiad they are part of, followed by the specific year of the cycle. For example: 
325th (Olympiad) City (Year)
421st (Olympiad) Silkworm (Year)
That is:
325th City
421st Silkworm
== Chapter II- The Spirit of the Years ==
According to the ancient Solar Priests of Pazamath (Paramac), each year of the Olympiad could be characterised according to certain qualities or 'spirits' which it was said to possess. Which, if one was sufficiently educated in such holy matters, would allow through some manner of prophecy for one to predict the great events of the upcoming year.
In the temporal world, each year was also associated with its own religious festival, with their own distinct rituals and celebrations.
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