: Oh, and if you could, please set up a chart or explain in
: greater detail your theory. I can't quite grasp the
: concept. Thanks.
Sure. First, I'll repost my old post:
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According to GURPS, the number is the Heron's number of initiation from that septannual group; so, One Crocodile Skull would be the first person initiated
on the date of Crocodile Skull. Two Crocodile Skull would be the guy initiated right after that. Three Crocodile Skull.... etc. Normally there are up to six
initiates per tournament, though in wartime there are up to fifteen, and even higher numbers are expected now in the time after Alric's coronation.
As for the rest of the date, as I said in another message, someone pointed out a while back (look in the archives) that the Heron calendar symbols correspond exactly to the Mayan calendar symbols. So find a Mayan calendar somewhere, and that's the Heron calendar.
I found the Mayan calendar online at:
http://www.resonate.org/places/writings/mayan/jenkins1.htm
Since the symbols are pictures loosely translated into words, I've made a nice little list to show how the symbols on that page correspond to actual
Heron-name nouns.
Alligator - Crocodile
Wind - Wind, Fan
House - ???
Lizard - Lizard
Serpent - Serpent
Death - Skull
Deer - Deer
Rabbit - Rabbit
Water - ???
Dog - Coyote, Dog
Monkey - Monkey
Grass - ???
Reed - Reed
Jaguar - Jaguar, Puma
Eagle - Eagle, Heron
Owl - Vulture
Quake -Motion
Knife - Flint, Obsidian
Rain - Rain
Flower - Flower
However, there are a few anomolies that don't quite fit. I'm sure I could make them fit if I looked at that old post in the archives, but I'm too lazy. The anomolies are: Sun, Cactus, Pride, Drum, Stone, Shadow, Tongue, Flower, Moon, Talon, Devil, Star, Fire, Claw, Collar
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Now, based on that, you would have years proceeding like:
Crocodile Wind
Crocodile House
Crocodile Lizard
Crocodile Serpent
Crocodile Skull
Crocodile Deer
Crocodile Rabbit
Crocodile Water
Crocodile Dog
Crocodile Monkey
Crocodile Grass
Crocodile Reed
Crocodile Jaguar
Crocodile Eagle
Crocodile Vulture
Crocodile Motion
Crocodile Flint
Crocodile Rain
Crocodile Flower
House Wind
House Lizard
House Serpent
House Skull
etc...
It's like numbers. You have numbers 1 through 20. So you have 1 - 2, 1 - 3, 1 -4... and then you have 2 - 3, 2 - 4... then 3 - 4... and so on. This is presuming you never have, say "Crocodile Crocodile" (1 - 1), as we never see anything like that in Myth.
