Peonian Calendar

The Church of Peoni has an ancient calendar for use in its cycle of seasons and festivals. Like most Kethiran calendars, it is based around the phases of the moon. Peonians divide the lunar month into seven four day weeks. The days of the week are named for the four Aerlathos: Belsirase, Tirrale, Maerme, and Yselde. Lesser Sapeleh always falls on Yselde. Greater Sapeleh begins on Tirrale and cycles completely through the four aspects of the Aerlathos, as well as the four seasons, during its celebration. The last two days of the lunar month are known as Yaeldyne and Yaelmerke, literally "moon of man" and "moon of woman" in an archaic dialect of Jarind. The first day of the month is often known as Ffresyaele, and the day of the full moon, the fifteenth of the month in Tuzyn Reckoning, is known as Llawnyaele.

The twelve moons periods of the year, referred to as months, are:

Autumn (Hydref): Diolkgarwch (month of thanksgiving)
Glaon (month of rain)
Lladdon (month of slaughter)
Winter (Gaeaf): Olfion (month of Olfar)
Tywllon (month of darkness)
Ion (month of ice)
Spring (Darthell): Ffresyaelon (month of the young moon)
Adferon (month of restoration)
Tyfon (month of growth)
Summer (Haf): Kolinon (month of the young sun)
Golaon (month of light)
Cynhaeon (month of harvest)

Note that the Peonian calendar begins in autumn, so Diolkgarwch is the equivalent of Azura.

The most important days of the Peonian year are the Restoration Festival on the fourth day of Peonu and the Harvest Home on the Fourth of Azura. The origins of these festivals are ancient. The Restoration Festival celebrates the renewal of life after the cold of winter, and the Harvest Home blesses the harvest. The Harvest Home is the conclusion of four days of prayer, meditation, and fasting, ending with a lavish feast at which newly harvested crops are eaten. In the years that preceeded the coming of the Aerlathos, the Harvest Home festivals tended to be riotous or violent debauchs. Now they are peaceful, if merry celebrations.

The calendar dates events from the arrival of the Aerlathos at Perna, beginning the reform of the Church and the Second Age. Events before this occured in the First Age. Each subsequent return of the Aerlathos will herald the beginning of a new age. Church doctrine maintains that the Aerlathos have yet to return for a second time.

HYDREF	DIOLKGARWCH	GLAON	LLADDON
Autumn	month of thanksgiving	month of rain	month of slaughter
Belsirase:	Yselde the Trothmaker
Tirrale:			Kuvan
Maerme:
Yselde:	Harvest Home Festival	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:		Orgin
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:			Brigid
Belsirase:
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Maerme:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Yselde:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Belsirase:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:
Belsirase:			Shime
Tirrale:	Aldo
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Yaeldyne:	Ranal the Good
Yaelmerke:			Manut

GAEAF	OLFION	TYWLLON	ION
Winter	month of Olfar	month of darkness	month of ice
Belsirase:	Belsirasin the Weeper
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:		Bane
Tirrale:
Maerme:			Esa
Yselde:
Belsirase:
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Maerme:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Yselde:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Belsirase:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Tirrale:		Eshaela
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:			Nare
Belsirase:	Tera the Crone	Nele
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Yaeldyne:
Yaelmerke:		Elana	Melise

DARTHELL	FFRESYAELON	ADFERON	TYFON
Spring	month of the young moon	month of restoration	month of growth
Belsirase:	Tirrala the Handmaiden of Renewal
Tirrale:	Glinde the Midwife	Harin
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Restoration Festival	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:			Dwyn
Maerme:		Urbrin
Yselde:			Balor of the Cave
Belsirase:	Laryn	Gwene
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Maerme:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Yselde:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Belsirase:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Tirrale:	Brant
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:			Shale
Maerme:	Balfo		Conwan
Yselde:		Alys
Belsirase:
Tirrale:
Maerme:	Ferin
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Yaeldyne:
Yaelmerke:	Karen

HAF	KOLINON	GALAON	CYNHAEON
Summer	month of the young sun	month of light	month of harvest
Belsirase:	Maermal the Lord of Labor
Tirrale:
Maerme:	Harbraen of Shorkyne	Arslesa
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:	Owin	Frin	Rasumonde
Maerme:
Yselde:		Din the Lawgiver	Safransi of the Sheaf
Belsirase:
Tirrale:			Hanuk
Maerme:
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:			Rogin
Tirrale:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Maerme:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Yselde:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Belsirase:	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh	Greater Sapeleh
Tirrale:
Maerme:		Mare
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Belsirase:
Tirrale:
Maerme:
Yselde:
Belsirase:			Rabin
Tirrale:
Maerme:		Aldin the Golden
Yselde:	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh	Lesser Sapeleh
Yaeldyne:	Dael the Son		Hos
Yaelmerke:	Chesla		Elsbit the Mother