The
meaning of history lies not in the future but in the moment. It
is never anywhere but within our grasp. And if the history of man,
terminated, should turn out to have been but a brief flicker in
the midst of unnoticing oblivions let it at least have been worthy
of the moment in which it burned.
But perhaps
it would prove to be a spark which would, in time, illuminate a
universe.
---Explorers of Gor
, p 230
Time
The clock
the ihn...
the Gorean second. (1.35 earth seconds)
the ehn... the Gorean minute, it consists of 80 ihn. (1.8 earth
minutes or 1 minute, 48 seconds)
the ahn... the Gorean hour, it consists of 40 ehn. (1.2 earth hours
or 1 hour, 12 minutes) the Gorean day consists of 20 ahn
the tenth ahn... the Gorean equivalent of noon or midday.
the twentieth ahn... the Gorean equivalent of midnight.
It
was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or hour, the Gorean Day is divided
into twenty Ahn, which are numbered consecutively, the tenth Ahn
is noon, the twentieth, midnight. Each Ahn consists of 40 Ehn, or
minutes, and each Ehn of eighty Ihn, or seconds
---Outlaw of Gor
, p 26
The calendar
the hand...
the Gorean week, five days
the Gorean month... it consists of 5 hands
each 5 week month is followed by a 5 day period called the "passage
hand", this hand is not included in the month ending nor the
month beginning.
The Gorean year... 12 months
At the end of the twelvth month, the usual passage hand of five
days passes and is then followed by another hand called the "waiting
hand" which seperates the years. So in effect then,
the Gorean year consists of 73 hands: twelve 5 hand months, 12 passage
hands and one waiting hand.
There
are twelve twenty-five day Gorean months, incidentally, in most
of the calendars of the various cities. Each month, containing five
five-day weeks is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage
Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this,
which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first
month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only
by a Passage Hand, but by another five day period called the Waiting
Hand.
---Assassin of Gor
, p 78
It
was now the month of the vernal equinox on Gor, called En'Kara,
or The First Kara. The full expression is En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, which
means, rather literally, The First Turning of the Central Fire.
Lar-Torvis is a Gorean expression for the sun. More commonly, though
never in the context of time, the sun is referred to as Tor-Tu-Gor,
or Light Upon the Home Stone. The month of the autumnal equinox
is called fully Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, but usually simply, Se'Kara,
The Second Kara, or The Second Turning. As might be expected, there
are related expressions for the months of the solstices, En'Var-
Lar-Torvis and Se'Var-Lar-Torvis, or, again rather literally, the
First Resting and the Second Resting of the Central Fire. These,
however, like the other expressions, usually occur in speech only
as En'Var and Se'Var, or The First Resting and The Second Resting.
---Outlaw
of Gor, p 178
...during
the ninth passage hand, that preceding the winter solstice.
---Assassin of Gor
, p 192
Chronology,
incidentally, is the despair of scholars on Gor, for each city keeps
track of time by virtue of its own Administrator Lists...sometimes
cities are willing to add, in their records, beside their own dating,
the dating of Ar, which is Gor's greatest city...Time is reckoned
"Contasta Ar", or from the "founding of Ar."
---Outlaw of Gor
, pp 178-179
He
did so late in the spring, on the sixteenth day of the third month,
that month which in Ar is called Camerius, in Ko-ro-ba Selnar.
---Assassin of Gor
, pp 234-235
...for
the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to
the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure the year from
summer solstice to summer solstice; Goreans generally, on the other
hand, figure the year from vernal equinox to vernal equinox.
---Nomads of Gor
, p 11
Gor
to Earth date comparisons
En'Kara
(the first turning)
| 1st
Hand |
Mar
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
| 2nd
Hand |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
| 3rd
Hand |
31 |
Apr
1st |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| 4th
Hand |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| 5th
Hand |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
| 1st
passage |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
Second month
| 1st
Hand |
Apr
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
| 2nd
Hand |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
| 3rd
Hand |
30 |
May
1st |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| 4th
Hand |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| 5th
Hand |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
| 2nd
passage |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
Third Month
(Camerius in Ar, Selnar in Ko-ro-ba)
| 1st
Hand |
May
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
| 2nHand |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
| 3rd
Hand |
30 |
31 |
Jun
1st |
2 |
3 |
| 4th
Hand |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
| 5th
Hand |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
| 3rd
passage |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
Month of En'Var
(The First Resting)
| 1st
Hand |
Jun
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
| 2nHand |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
| 3rd
Hand |
29 |
30 |
Jul
1st |
2 |
3 |
| 4th
Hand |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
| 5th
Hand |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
| 4th
passage |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
Fifth Month
| 1st
Hand |
Jul
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
| 2nHand |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
| 3rd
Hand |
29 |
30 |
31 |
Aug
1st |
2 |
| 4th
Hand |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
| 5th
Hand |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
| 5th
passage |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
(In
Ar, and certain other cities, Kajuralia is celebrated on August
12,
the Love Feast then beginning the next day for five days)
Sixth Month
| 1st
Hand |
Aug
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
| 2nHand |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
| 3rd
Hand |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
Sept
1st |
| 4th
Hand |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
| 5th
Hand |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
| 6th
passage |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
Month of Se'Kara
(The Second Turning)
| 1st
Hand |
Sep
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
| 2nHand |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
| 3rd
Hand |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
Oct
1st |
| 4th
Hand |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
| 5th
Hand |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
| 7th
passage |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
Eighth Month
| 1st
Hand |
Oct
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
21 |
| 2nHand |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
| 3rd
Hand |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
| 4th
Hand |
Nov
1st |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| 5th
Hand |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| 8th
passage |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
Ninth Month
| 1st
Hand |
Nov
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
| 2nHand |
221 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
| 3rd
Hand |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
| 4th
Hand |
Dec
1st |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| 5th
Hand |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| 9th
passage |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
Month of Se'Var
(The Second Resting)
| 1st
Hand |
Dec
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
20 |
| 2nHand |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
| 3rd
Hand |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
30 |
| 4th
Hand |
31 |
Jan
1st |
2 |
3 |
4 |
| 5th
Hand |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
| 10th
passage |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
Eleventh Month
| 1st
Hand |
Jan
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
19 |
| 2nHand |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
| 3rd
Hand |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
29 |
| 4th
Hand |
30 |
31 |
Feb
1st |
2 |
3 |
| 5th
Hand |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
| 11th
passage |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
Twelfth Month
| 1st
Hand |
Feb
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
| 2nHand |
19 |
20 |
21 |
22 |
23 |
| 3rd
Hand |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
28 |
| 4th
Hand |
Mar
1st |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
| 5th
Hand |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
| 12th
passage |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
(Some
cities celebrate Kajuralia on March 15)
| Waiting
Hand
| Mar
16
| 17
| 18
| 19
| 20
|