Journey of the Stars

Long Ago, after the Zut Invasion and the forming of the Niechela, wise Eis laid hands on a Stubtu. The idol gave much wisdom and more knowledge. On the sharing of this knowledge the Hasyuthin of the Niechela people agreed on a common calendar, based on the revelations that the Stubtu bestowed on Eis. The Calendar year is ten irregular months long all based on climate and celestial patterns centered around the largest moon, Jun.

The first months, called "yit" in Hamusu, pass as the moon passes through the sky. The year begins as Jun, the largest moon first creeps above the horizon at night. It takes fifteen nights for Jun to rise and rest at the Horizon. Those nights make up the yit Kurei or The Wandering.

The next months are thirty nights long, and are Niin or She Rises, Mag'Hithen or Near Highest, Tshunin or She Flirts, Bril'Hithen or After Highest, and Miseidh or We Harvest.

As Jun settles against the horizon at the end of Miseidh, there is a fifteen night yit known as Nlajidh, or We Mourn as the moon passes into the great darkness.

After the Jun passes, the nights are unusually dark and cloudy for around thirty nights. This yit is named Zhothajut or The Great Darkness. After this is a sixty night long period of increasing cold and storms, where most plants die and all harvests must finish. Speg, or Autumn is the name for this strange season of burgeoning death and is a word loaned from the Maker's language. Most call it Zlamatup'pu or Dying Time as it is when the creatures of the plains are at their most dangerous. Finally the year ends with a ninety night period of hunger, sweeping storms, and bitter cold - Tshim or Winter. This loan-word is actually unchanged among our people.

Our year is divided this way to honor Batu-Jun, and her creation, Jun. We welcome her creation and exalt her through it in the hopes that she will send it again to end the Tshim each year. Jun is bright, verdant, and the reason our world is reborn. The darkness of Tshim cannot stand the brilliance of Jun. For six lifetimes, our Way has worked. Honor Batu Jun, children, and keep the moon returning.