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Time Reconning of the late Enoshian civilization
Time reconing of the Enochian and Enoshian civilizations
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The Enochians began the use of a lunar calander in which the movements of the sun are also recognized (as vampires fear and must watch the sun). The calendar was begun anew after the Deluge. From the moment that Mekhet reappeared with his (at the time, Mekhet expressed itself as a male) childer, saved from the divine retrebution of the jealous Seraphim against the Nephelim. That moment marks the first night after the flood, or Post Deluge (P.D.). The year is now 1,225 P.D. of the cycle of Caine. The Enochian year takes four earth revolutions around the sun. The year is split into four cycles (Thainu pl. Thaiul) Each cycle lasts around a modern year.
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The first cycle is the cycle of Adam (Thainu Audai), followed by the cycle of Lillith (Thainu Lailitlu), followed by the cycle of Eve (Thainu Arithu Saitla Audain), and finally, the cycle of Cain (Caine).
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These cycles are further broken down into lunar events from the full moon (Ciaan pl. Ciaauil) to the eclipse (taimul) and back. The only scientists in the Enoshian society are childer of Caine (or, at the very least, ghouls gifted with the sacred blood of the Immortals.) Cainites could not, by their very nature, study the sun, so time reconing was primarily based on the moon, with general acknowledgement of the shape of the earth and its position within the solar system and visible galaxy. Cainites gifted in astral travel mapped the world, but not without peril: for other (unfriendly) localized universes were discovered... That realm of science is covered by the Moihanai (Department of Planer Physics). These cainite scientists spend much relaTime in other realms in which the physical laws that govern this universe do not exist.
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There are no seasons in the rain forest surrounding the Enoshians, so they had no need to divide the system of time reconning further. If there was a need for more specificity, the layman could count the night by the phases of the moon. For Mekhetim, time is deliniated much further; the smallest observable incriment of time being the time in which it takes for an electron to circle the nucelus in the first valence shell (i.e., hydrogen or helium).
Edited by: Storyteller at: 10/4/05 2:02 pm
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