If you were making up names for the days,weeks,months&years of a far away fiction/fantasy planet, would?

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you see it fit to base them on the atmosphere, on moods,or temperature, or rocks,gases, patterns???
Any suggestions? I need replacement names for monday,tuesday etc, january,february etc,.They could be number relevant if anyone knows something extraordinary about numbers!!?? Many big thanks! Sorry it's odd & vague!

Answer 1

This is a beautiful question and it really needs a little time to answer it.
I would suggest that you imagine, a growing cycle of flora on this planet, and name the months, after the plants which grow
at certain times of the year.(Obviously you need to invent names for the plants first and decide how long a year is on this planet).
Years I would do numerically, starding from when you first made landfall.

Days are difficult and you would have to decide how long your week was going to be.
There is no reason, why your days should not be based on some of the old earth gods, very similar to our own system.
Better yet invent some new gods and base your days on them.
I truly hope that I have been of some small assistance and thank you for the most interesting question this week.

Answer 2

Good question but lets take a real planet as an example.

Say the future settlers of Mars get sick and tired of using the old geocentric 12 month a year system. It wouldn´t work anyway since the martian year has 686.98 days. And those are earth days too. The martians would want to cast off the shackles of earth and become truly a world of its own. They would start using their own day which is 24 hours and 37 minutes long. That gives them a year of 669.79 "real" days per year. But now a decision needs to be made: to scrap the earth system of dividing up the year altogether or come up with something new? Say they want to keep using the old months with 31-30 days what would they call the new martian months? The earth system covers 365 days. That leaves about 10 more months. Some of the earth months were named by roman emperors. July by Julius Caesar and august by Augustus Caesar. Maybe the martians would name their months after those that inspired humans to go there in the first place. How about months with names like Zubrin, Bradbury, Sagan, Heinlein etc. The planet itself got the name from the roman god of war. I hope the future colonists will be wise enough to denounce religion and religious extremism. So you can bet there won´t be a month called Bush...

Answer 3

First, realize that our grouping of days into 7-day weeks and 12-month years is completely arbitrary. On another planet, days probably wouldn't be 24 hours long, and years probably wouldn't be 365 days - whether you're talking earth-days or new-planet days.

The reason we have 12 months in our year is probably because our moon orbits the earth roughly that many times per year. If this fictional planet of yours has a different setup with its moons - it may have no moon, or one, or several - then the "month" system likely wouldn't apply.

What would apply, then? Seasons. Of course, seasons depend on the planet's axial tilt, but more than likely you would have a very clear summer season and winter season. Take the midpoints on each side, and you'd have a very clear spring and fall season. I'd start with the four seasons, and make "months" based on that. Beyond that, the main impact of seasons is on agriculture. This could lead the locals to name at least some of their "months" after planting and harvest times for various crops.

As for 7-day weeks, those are entirely a cultural construct. Historically, different cultures here on earth have had "weeks" of different lengths. If the locals on your planet have ten fingers, then I'd probably go with a ten-day week, with the names based on religion or politics (just as July and August are named after Julius and Augustus Caesar).

I'll leave it up to you to invent names for your gods and politicians. My main point is that in a realistic science fiction scenario, this planet of yours would *not* have 7-day weeks and a 12-month year.

Answer 4

Rage. BQ1: Not particularly. BQ2: Ankles crossed, hands in lap. Probably awkward looking at all times lol. BQ3: Foggy. BQ4: Frightened. BQ5: Can't think of any english word. Pretty much every word in every other language I stumble on when volume is required. BQ6: Not too often, though it's always trying to have it's own way. The thing has a mind of it's own. BQ7: Maybe sight, followed by sound and smell. Capricorn sun. Gemini moon. This was a fun question. ^-^

Answer 5

It would depend on the settlers of that planet. Are they colonists from Earth--then base it on mythology of that group.

If original people of that planet--anything is fair game.

Full Moons
January Wolf Moon
February Snow Moon
March Worm Moon
April Pink Moon
May Flower Moon
June Strawberry Moon
July Buck Moon
August Sturgeon Moon
September Harvest Moon
October Hunter's Moon
November Beaver Moon
December Cold Moon

Answer 6

Replacement Names For Days Of The Week : Sunday [ Fire-day]
Monday [ Steel-day]
Tuesday [ Olympus-day]
Wednesday [ Ra-day]
Thursday [ Calypso-day]
Friday [ Moon-day]
Saturday [ Holiday]

Answer 7

Would have thought fictitious local gods like we use would be the obvious choice.