Yesterday was the end of another alíta, and today is the beginning of the 5-day end-of-year festival (about which more tomorrow!). Technically only the 140 days grouped into 20-day "months" are actually part of the alíta, so at the moment, we are not in any alíta. Rather odd for a word derived from líta, "circle".
You can see a clickable calendar of the alíta just ended here.
Cool calendar!
ReplyDeleteThat was supposed to be me, not my wife saying that.
ReplyDeleteHaha, thought I had a new commenter here :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! It's actually been running since 1985, originally with one less intercalary day (till I found that it was a little too in synch with the real year that way, I forget in what way, and added chèmbel ènchënö). The language was just starting back then, and had no firm concultural foundations. So rather than growing out of any concultural concerns, the calendar has influenced them! Clearly part of the mërèchi cultural influences were tropical, to have developed a non-solar calendar...