Has your nation alternative names for days and months? Is its calendar year of unequal length to the Gregorian year?
After the establishment of the Theonomic State of Turelisa in 1820, the Gregorian calendar, whose days and months were almost all namesakes of pagan deities and heathen festivals, was considered unacceptable in a society which was fundamentally religious. It was replaced with a system of twelve months and seven days whose names almost all derive from Latin and Greek ordinal numerals.
The exceptions are 'DecadiTide', which derives from French, 'PaschalTide', the month of Lent and the observance of the Crucifixion and Resurrection, 'Midsommar', an alternative name for June when the season of summer is at its peak, 'September', a word that has no pagan denotation nor is a derivative of a Roman Emperor namesake, is retained and once again becomes the appellation of the seventh month, and 'TwelveTide', an alternative name for the twelfth month when the festival of the Nativity is observed.
Each of the names for the months are combined with the affix -Tide., a synonym for 'month.'
1 ProtoTide
2 DeuteroTide
3 TritoTide
4 Paschaltide
5 EmptTide
6 MidsommarTide
7 Jacobatide
8 OctTide
9 NonusTide
10 DecadiTide
11 EndecaTide
12 DozenthTide
1 Sunday
2 Monday
3 Jonsday ( John the Baptist is venerated on Tuesdays )
4 Midday
5 Quintday
6 Piscisday ( Piscis is Latin for fish; it is a Christian tradition to eat only fish on Fridays )
7 Septday
