Loa Luni-Ecdysial Calendar: Difference between revisions

Given the large dates being used even in daily life, Loa tend to refer to the lunar calendar when giving short term dates. For example, if one wants to refer to a date eight days out and it's the 50th of the second month in the ecdysial date while it's te 12th of the eighth lunar month, instead of saying 2/58 one could instead say 8/16. The lack of weeks also affects Loa time organization significantly, especially in business and education. Loa schoolchildren receive no weekends like in Occidental countries while employees receive free days on schedule of one day off every five days.

===Lunar Months===

==Culture==

The Silk Calendar has a significant place in Loa culture, combining aspects of lunar worship and ecdysial theology. Although the native Polynesians did not ascribe as significant of a focus to the former two as the Loa do, they still held some respect for the concepts. With the adoption of the calendar and the establishment of the Kapuhenasa and its theology, it has come to be seen of in modern religious circles as an almost prophetic vision of a Loa future, being tailor made for their culture and religion. Certain theories suggest that the Loa adapted their culture in response to the calendar, but this is rejected by both mainstream religious figures and by other historians who note the Loa's entomantic rites long before their conquest of the mainland.