Nandegakkovian calendar

This is a list of the festivals and months in Nandegakko's traditional calendar.

(P) - public holidays

## Sándimaifal (July)

The month's name means "Whiteflower"

* 1 - (P) Midsummer, New Year's Day - drums, fireworks, boat races and parades, markets, lunch, stargazing, wearing red and white hats. Colours: yellow, green

## Sáijamaike (August)

* 23 - Red Sails Day - red sails are set up to honour the heroes and kings of ancient Resparin lore. Colours: red.

## Ráitwokwesa (September)

* 8 - (P) Fruit Harvest - a fruit competition. The pumpkin is the symbol of this festival. Colours: green, orange
* 16 - (P) Crop Harvest - feasts at the villages, food cloned and donated to poorer planets. Colours: green, gold, white.

## Átul (October)

The month's name means "cross".

* 5 - Teacher's Day - a day to honour all teachers, including the founder Kurita (who was a mathematician). Colours: red, green, white
* 16 - (P) Crop Harvest - feasts are held at every village, settlement, and town square, and food is being cloned and donated to poorer planets.
* 28 - Navigators' Day - stars arranged in the shape of crosses are held up to honour all navigators and travellers. Colours: orange, white.

## Dwéntol (November)

* 18 - (P) Founding Day - dinner, history dramas. Colours: blue-black-green-yellow

## Rĩsdol (December)

* 7 - Music Day - all kinds of music is celebrated on that day.
* 9 - Festival of the All-Seeing Eye - in the southerly town of Auzirotri, the chief priest or the president gets a book printed from a nearby shop. It is a grey book with all the discoveries of the year, up the previous 9th day of Risdol. The president or priest burns the book as an offering to the Norse god Odin, as a symbol of information being added to Nandegakko's knowledge, and that of all sapientkind by extension.
* 23 - (P) Unowane, Cold Rains - pots, dance, rains, ships built from scraps and released to rivers to make a wish. In major cities, people celebrate Unowane by holding lavish parades celebrating heroes and ancestors.
	+ Unowane became the centre of a controversy where a human governor during Igarin rule attempted to ban the festival to impose his American culture. He angered the atheistic people, who rioted and banished him to his homeworld.

## Mĩr (January)

* 12 - (P) Kunewano - the day of heavy rains and snow. It is celebrated with bonfires and colourful lanterns shaped like stars. Colours: blue, white.

## Kjõr (February)

Because Kjôr was the month where Turtles' Day takes place, religious Resparins regard this month as "the holy month".

* 12 - (P) Turtles' Day - in ancient Resparin culture, this was the day when baby turtles hatch from their eggs and run to the sea; Resparins regarded this day as the holiest day of the year. Nandegakkovians celebrate that day by raising emblems shaped like sea turtles, or dancing around fountains or near bodies of water. Colours: green, blue

## Čartaiksa (May)

* 28 - (P) Independence Day - This day celebrates the end of the millennium of Imperial oppression, when the Malendors saved the Nandegakkovian resistance from being exterminated by the Imperial fleets. To celebrate, people wave blue flags, light fireworks, and burn effigies of Igarin gods. Colours: dark blue, red (optionally gold and orange are also used).

## Ős (early June)

* 17 - (P) Remembrance Day, Ribura, Red Day - This is a day held to honour the Resparin ancestors and their civilisation. It was also the Resparin New Year. Traditions include drums, bonfire, studies, history, dramas, and easier travel between Nandegakko and other Resparin nations.
* 20 - (P) Sea Day - Considered the holiest day in the traditional Resparin calendar, it was celebrated with blue sails and raising turtle shells to worship the sea god Sailachro. In atheist Nandegakko, it was enacted as a public holiday to celebrate the republic's religious minority.

## Mídol (late June)

* 7 - (P) Salekka, Fire Parade - A popular Igarin festival that honours the discovery of fire. It is celebrated with bonfires, fireworks, lanterns, and torches. Colours: red, yellow.

## Glossary

### Lunar phases

* gunofjãna - new moon, hidden moon
	+ Ancient Resparins offered fish as sacrifices to the sea god.
* waésobit - first crescent
* waerafjãna - first quarter
* waéromi - waxing gibbous
* prúnafjoma, prútawjo - full moon, sea moon
	+ Ancient Resparins celebrated full moon nights by sacrificing sharks and dragons to the sea god through a bonfire. In Nandegakko, this custom continues by dragging paper effigies to bonfires.
* nöéromi - waning gibbous
* nöerafjãna - last quarter
* nöésobit - last crescent

### Seasons

* tanáje - season
* sãsada, sãsad - sun season (July-December)
* juwírui - windy season (December-February)
* jónokon - storm season (March-July)

### Others

* jẽwaire - day
* močéwaiz - yesterday
* jodáken - today
* ečjéwaiz - every day
* kalséwaiz - tomorrow
* túkalča - eight days, week
* múoto - month
* dwésa - year

## Trivia

In Nandegakkovian culture, the thirteen months are represented by crocodiles known as Chorantcho Frâjes. Each month-crocodile bears a different kind of good luck for its month.

## See also

* Igarin calendar
* Novantirna calendar
* Resparin mythology
* Nandegakkovian glossary