Wonao calendar

The **Wonao calendar** is the traditional calendar of the Wonao peoples of Bujan and its nearby archipelagoes.

## Terminology

Other names for the Wonao calendar of Bujan include:

* Eosome calendar (erroneous as this is used all over Bujan)
* native Bujanski calendar
* Resovjandian calendar (though not exactly the same as the calendar of the Sixteenth Age)

## Overview

The Wonao calendar is a lunisolar calendar. It is made of twelve months of 29 days, and one final week of 6 days, or 7 days in a leap year.

The extra week was added during Tuksharan colonisation at the Fifteenth Age, and retained after independence from Tuksharan rule to keep track of the temperate seasons.

## Months

### Native Wonao months (Eosome language)

* March - Wīlarura - Spring
* April - Wīlatol - Tree Blossoms
* May - Datormak - Bonfires of the Sun ("dara tormakau")
* June - Tojarikaa - True Dawn
* July - Surataauva - Vast Ocean
* August - Rovjatoha - Year's Peak
* September - Sarikaa - Saffron
* October - Tsonkovjomi - Dying Leaves of a Tree
* November - Nira - Chill
* December - Notlon - Winter
* January - Zulan - Storm
* February - Yoljatoha - Year's Depth
* 24 Feb - 1/2 Mar - Lurō, Lurōri (the final week)

### Translations of Bujanski months

Some of the Eosome names for the Bujanski months were translated from archaic meanings used for the latter's month names. However, many Eosome-speakers also use the names of traditional Eosome months for their corresponding Bujanski months.

* Baitorja - April
* Datormak - May
* Konövan - June (Radiance, Sunlight)
* Ratahan - July (Month of the Sea God)
* Rovjakonö - August (Light of the Year)
* Sarikaa - September
* Tsonkojo - October (Leaf Death)
* Nira - November (Chill)
* Notlohha - December (Frozen Month)
* Artaimak - January (Blue Skies)
* Koatormak - February (Windswept Bonfires)
	+ Tormakuo - "Bonfires"
* Gjeratroi - March (Blooming)

Therefore, the last seven days of March are known as Lurō or Lurō Slavjæna ("Slavic Luro").

## Native holidays

### Twelve Holy Days

In 1294 BT, the Royal Council of Ketamaau Priests designated twelve holidays as sacred days for the Wonao religion. Three of the biggest and most important holidays are national public holidays.

1. April 29/30 - Tiragand, Day of Landing
	* Commemorates the day the ancestors of the Wonaos landed in northwestern Bujan.
	* A regional holiday in northwestern and central Bujan, and in Koscheigrad and Lidongrad.
	* Celebrated by kneeling on a flagpole and burning food as offerings to the gods; and boat races.
2. May 28 - Nokorsau Day, Day of Law
	* This was the day the Wonao celebrated the formation of the Krudaka Code, a series of laws written by the ancient king Motakol to govern his people.
3. August 12 - Nilachaum, Day of the Sea Harvest
	* This is a thanksgiving day held to worship the sea god. Fish and rich dishes are thrown into the sea as offerings.
	* Other people, especially fisherpeople and ship crew, also observe Nilachaum to worship Morskoi.
4. October 17 - Midaeta, Wonao New Year
	* The Wonao people celebrate the new year as the end of their wheat and barley harvest. It is observed with drum ceremonies and dances to the harvest goddess.
5. December 22 - Ve Sönnantau, Lantern Festival
	* Wonao people raise blue lanterns to worship the gods of winds and stars, seeking their protection against blizzards. Nowadays crossed over with the more widespread Kolieda, with Wonao rice and fish dishes also becoming festive food.
6. February 11 - Ve Mihhandau, Knowledge Day
	* Traditionally the holy day of Ujerol, Wonao god of knowledge, celebrated by recitals of poems and immersing statues of idols into water in a ritual bath. Later it is also celebrated with releasing floats full of useless books into the sea or Bujan's central bays as great drums play.
	* In the Bujanid Empire, it was designated as its own Knowledge Day to replace September 1, Darros' Knowledge Day, to symbolise independence from Darros.
7. March 2 or 3 - Darokauta Day, Wonao New Year
	* In Wonao mythology, this was the day the world was created. It is celebrated by burning wooden poles as offerings to the gods and drumming hymns.
8. March 28 - Ve Nolpatara, End of Darkness
	* Marks the day King Motakol killed off the last cannibal in Resovjant, ending the Old Hiranol. The "Old Hiranol" was a name for a great war caused by a blizzard and a famine, notorious for widespread cases of murder and cannibalism.

The kahulon is celebrated at the last day or night of each month. It is observed with white lanterns and a market fair, and boat races at night. Every different month has its own kahulon pole, which is a wooden or bamboo pole with a banner made of palm fronds and leaves.

### Other holidays

* November 23 - Vei Akrimdal
	+ The day when the tent-city of Akrindo was burned down by the prisoners. It is celebrated with red and orange lanterns put up in every street of Lidongrad, and effigies of the butcher-lords set on fire with arrows.

## Glossary

* kitap - second
* ojutsi, oitsuz - minute
* domok - hour
* honukal - half of a day, 12 hours
* ve - a day
* kalun - month
* kahulan, kahulon - end of a month
* tumakal - six months, half of a year
* hōrivjana - start of a day, dawn-line, morning, first morning of the year (on April 1)
* badalaau - all the days
* bakalba - all the moons, a year, a calendar, twelve
* rova - year
* Ve Horiwen - Day of Bonfires, New Year's Eve
* luirova - new year
* lōro - upwards, future
* lōromak - upwards in time, afterwards
* notlon - winter, freezing, Hell
* maiamai - spring, blossoming flowers, meadow, flowerbed
* wīlarura - spring (formal), coming to life, green everywhere
* kagavume, kagaume - autumn, leaves falling
* džodauro - great sun, era, reign of a king, reign, age
	+ Both for "reign of a king", "a generation", or "500 years"; which are varying lengths of time.
* kalōran - the future

## See also

* Wonao glossary
* Eosome language
* Eosome glossary
* Wonao mythology
* Bujanski calendar