like in pocketbooks, the indians use summers and moons in refering to their age of time lapsed instead of days or months. what is the equivalent of one summer to days or months? how about months?
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2006-09-21 15:36:30 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
like the indiabns in pocket books, some people use the terms summer and moons to indicate age or time lapsed. what is the equivalent of summers to days and months? how about moons?
2006-09-21 15:42:18 · update #1
one summer possibly 120 moons(if moons counted daily.... or 4 moons (full moons only counted) = 4months....
2006-09-21 15:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by steelmadison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Summers describes years. A summer is one year, the next summer would be two years... and on and on. An Indian brave of 18 summers would be 18 years old (or so). The moons are used to describe a time frame shorter than a year. Since they did not have the concept of time as we did, they were not as concerned about absolute time. A longer than normal summer did not concern them nearly as much as whether or not the buffalo would be coming back soon.
I have heard (and appreciate) the saying "One more ice cream season" to refer to a girl who is ALMOST dating age.
2006-09-21 22:43:16 · answer #2 · answered by damndirtyape212 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Summers-years
Moons-months
2006-09-21 22:46:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Summer indicates summers...for instance 3 summers could be 3 summers ago...or roughly 3 years. Moons usually refers to full moons which are once a month.
2006-09-21 22:40:49 · answer #4 · answered by Shaun 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One summer to the next is what it means. It was just a way of estimating years before Europeans introduced the Gregorian Calendar.
2006-09-21 22:38:11 · answer #5 · answered by Ironwolf56 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You see, summers are like years because from one summer to the next is one year.At least thats what I think.Thats what makes sense to me. I think moons are like months.
2006-09-21 22:42:29 · answer #6 · answered by Mysterious 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't have calenders such as we know them. One moon...one month...one summer...one year
2006-09-21 22:40:21 · answer #7 · answered by eastern_mountain_outdoors 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋