On time

Translated from the original Text “von der Zeit”

What is that, "time"? A great and yet quite everyday mystery. In Mitrasperan terms, one could say: it is the desire for change of the primordial currents, the Kral Urien, which gave rise to and sustains what we call time. The constant desire inherent in each element to prevail and thus bring about change keeps the world in motion, makes the stars wander, clouds move and hearts beat. Even though the elements themselves exist beyond time and the Kral Urien, the "souls of change" are also called "the timeless ones". Time, and with it all of Mitraspera, was attacked only once, when Ar'Nathan, the creator of the Void, caused it to flow through the contaminated portals into the entire world, making the elements themselves forget their desire for change. Water stopped flowing, fire stopped burning, and life stopped growing. The first winter, also called the 5th season, came upon the land. This was a time without time, a stasis that threatened to banish creation into eternal stasis. Only Aeris' peoples, who had change in their nature more than anyone else, were able to beat back the void, and the elements rediscovered their vitality. The only permanent change that remained was the constant change of the seasons, which had never been known on Mitraspera before. Since then, Aeris is considered the patron saint of time on Mythodea.

Time system on Mythodea

Time is also a concept that creates finiteness. But the existence itself began without any time. Only when it was possible to give forms and to work, one could determine finiteness. And this is also the time when the time itself was created.

Short time calculation- Day, Sentence and grain 

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, these are relations to the present existence. Already these simple terms are based on day and night. And with it on the presence of the golden chariot, the big fire disk, or the silver chariot, the white star.

The Golden Chariot divides the day. It indicates morning, noon and evening by its position in the sky. It shows the night by its absence. So the times of the day are divided into four. A time of day is divided into five measures. So there are 20 of them, distributed over the day. The highest position of the golden chariot in the sky is always considered as a reference point. So it is assumed that between noon and evening would be its highest position and divides the measures according to it.

The day begins with the first measure of the morning.
The daytime noon begins with the 6th measure of the day.

The daytime evening starts with the 11th measure of the day.
The daytime night begins with the 16th measure of the day.
Midnight is in the middle of the day time night.

But it is not enough to divide the day into measures. One needs the possibilities to determine smaller time, too. So one has divided a measure into 50 sentences. And one sentence is divided into 50 grains.

One grain is about the time it takes to say "Naldar".

Multiple days - One week

The Silver Chariot does not divide the day, but it gives us measure for the succession of days. Its face changes within 28 days. Since it can increase and decrease its form, one divides a moon into 4 weeks. The first two weeks for the waxing moon, the second two weeks for the waning moon. Two days each are under the sign of the Full Moon and the New Moon. The first day is the day with the first visible crescent, the last day is the day of the New Moon night.

A week is divided into 6 days. The first five are dedicated to the elements: Erztag - Earth Day, Fyrstag - Fire Day, Bindetag - Magic Day, Meerstag - Water Day, and Windstag - Air Day. The last day of the week serves as an admonition to the wicked and is called Mahntag - Admonition Day. Prior to the second creation, however, it was the day when the elements were one, a day for celebration. But that was a long time ago and is irrelevant here.

To full moon and to new moon there are in each case 2 days which do not belong to a week. The full moon days are called in each case "Full <month name>", thus e.g. "Full change" or "Full wood", the new moon days are called always "-night" and are named in each case after the opposite of the month name, thus in the wood moon "Adamant night" or simply "Adamant".

Longer Times - Seasons and the year

There are always three moons in one season - spring, summer, autumn and winter. At the end still the ice moon comes, which lasts for one moon. A year is characterized by living through all 5 seasons or 13 moons or 52 weeks or 364 days.

A month always begins with the first crescent moon and ends at the new moon.

In the yearly course the year always begins with the 1st ore day(Erztag) of the increasing moon in the month of the changing moon(Wandelmond)