Valware - 2. Time
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Written history
- The Nuńwu do not keep written accounts of their history.
Time
- The Nuńwu do not have a well-defined sense of time. Time does not 'come' and 'go'. It just is. This is reflected in the dearth of time words in their vocabulary, nothing before "day before yesterday" or after "day after tomorrow".
Calendar
- The Nuńwu do not have a complex system of time keeping. There are only four units of time.
- The day (savi) begins at first light. There is a morning (yala), a noon (kari savi), and an evening (hole). The night is called yolu. The planet's rotation gives a 28-hour day.
- The month (ńeri) is measured from the first sighting of the waxing crescent of the moon (seńe).
- There are only two seasons on the islands, a wet season (vuru tose) and a dry season (ara tose).
- The year (mevi) begins when the first rains begin to fall. It is 384 Litorian days in length.
- The closest thing to a week is the four phases (rori) of the moon.
- The Nuńwu do not have any other words to describe the passing of time except yesterday (ue savi), the day before yesterday (ue ue savi), tomorrow (ua savi) and the day after tomorrow (ua ua savi).
- Other than these, only general terms are available, such as "gone days" (he vota savi yi) and "coming days" (kawa savi yi).
The Lunar Cycle – seńe foʻa
- The Nuńwu no have concept of months. They know about the phases of the moon, but do not relate that to the solar year.
