Discordian calendar

Discordian calendar for the year 3181 YOLD (2015 AD) in French

The Discordian calendar (also: Discordian calendar ) is a calendar system used by Discordianists . It divides the year into five 73-day cycles (seasons) or 73 five-day cycles (weeks). The Discordian calendar is a solar calendar , i.e. H. The length and change of the year are identical to the Gregorian calendar used today . Each date has a clear and constant correspondence in the other system. The Discordian calendar system was first published in 1969/70 as part of one of the later editions of the Principia Discordia . Its structure is based on the Discordian Law of Five .

Calendar structure

Months

The V year times or months
I.	chaos	Chs	(Jan 1st - Mar 14th)
II	Discord	Dsc	(March 15 - May 26)
III	Confusion	Cfn	(May 27th - Aug 7th)
IV	Bureaucracy	Bcy	(8 Aug - 19 Oct)
V	The aftermath	Afm	(Oct. 20 - Dec. 31)

The Discordian year is divided into five months of 73 days each, which are also called seasons ( in leap years there is an additional day between the first and second month, but which is not included in either of the two). The terms chaos, discord, confusion, bureaucracy and the end are also used as German translations of the month names.

The Erisian calendar and the cycle of the five seasons are derived from a kind of story of creation, fully described in one of the many insets of the Principia Discordia, the Book of Uterus . Accordingly, in the beginning there was the chaos, which arose from the non-existent Chao by chance, from whose disintegration the active power of discord emerged, a subtle manifestation of the non-existent Chao, which - if it was active - the state of confusion, confusion, reached. Confusion is the time of "Balanced Unbalance" or "Unbalanced Balance". The emerging confusion was called bureaucracy. In times of bureaucracy a state of "balanced balance" or stagnation is reached. After their fall, The Aftermath ("the finale") ushered in an age of disorder. Aftermath is the time of transition and restoration of free-flowing chaos, the state of the initial “Unbalanced Unbalance”. A cycle that is said to have repeated itself five times seventy-three times.

The goddess Eris herself is referred to as the Queen of Chaos, Daughter of the Discord and Concubine of Confusion.

Days

The 5 days of the week
1. Sweetmorn	(SM)
2. Boom time	(BT)
3. Pungenday	(PD)
4. Prickle-Prickle	(PP)
5. Setting orange	(SO)

The Discordian year has exactly 73 weeks. Each week consists of 5 days of the week . Since 365 is divisible by 5, the Discordian calendar system has the advantageous property that all dates such as B. Birthdays, fall on the same Discordian day of the week every year. The year (1.1.) Always begins with Sweetmorn , the first day of the week, and ends on New Year's Eve (May 73) with the setting orange , the fifth and last day of the week. Whereby in the English setting denotes the environment in which a drug experience takes place. The days of the week are named after the five Discordian "elements" sweet (sweet), boom (roar), pungent (piercing), prickle ( sparkling ) and orange (orange). They caricature the esoteric four-element and five-element teaching .

The Soviet revolutionary calendar used in the 1930s was also based on a five-day week . The principle of the same days of the week can also be found in the concept of a world calendar .

The structure, which is bound by the law of five , leads to a discordic calendar division based exclusively on the prime numbers 5 and 23 (365 = (5 + 5) × (5 × 5) + 5 × 23), where the 23, in addition to the five, is also recognized as "holy" according to the Principia Discordia.

Discordian Holidays

The fifth and fiftieth days of the five months are declared Discordian holidays.

The 5 Apostle Holydays take place on the 5th of each of the 5 months. They are each dedicated to one of the five (presumably fictitious) name cartridges:

Patron Apostle Hung Mung ( Mung day)

Patron Apostle Dr. Van Van Mojo ' ( Mojo Day)

Patron Apostle Sri Syadasti (Syatag)

Patron Apostle Zarathud (Zaratag)

Patron Apostle Malaclypse the Elder (Malatag)

The Discordian Holidays during the year
discordian	Gregorian	Discord. holiday	weekday
5. Chaos	January 5th	Mung day	Setting orange
50. Chaos	19th of February	Chaoflux	Setting orange
-	( February 29th )	(St. Tib's Day)	(no day of the week)
5. Discord	19th March	Mojo day	Pungenday
50th Discord	May 3rd	Discoflux	Pungenday
5. Confusion	31. May	Syatag	Sweetmorn
50. Confusion	15th of July	Confuflux	Sweetmorn
5. Bureaucracy	12. August	Zaratag	Prickle-Prickle
50. Bureaucracy	September 26th	Bureflux	Prickle-Prickle
5. The Aftermath	October 24th	Mala day	Boom time
50. The Aftermath	December 8th	Afflux	Boom time

According to the Principia Discordia, in which the apostles are characterized in more detail, Sri Syadasti should not be confused with Blessed St. Gulik the Stoned , "who is not the same person, but the same apostle".

The 5 monthly holidays (Season Holydays) take place on the 50th of each month. It could also be said to take place 23 days before the end of the month. Since there are nine Discordian weeks between the two holidays of a month, i.e. a multiple of 5 days, both always fall on the same day of the week. The terms Chaofluss, Zwiefluss, Wirrfluss, Büroofluss and Ausfluss are also used as German translations of the monthly holidays.

The original orthographically idiosyncratic spelling of the holidays with y (Holydays) also makes them sound like wholly days (analogous to the phonetic puns Holy Cow and Holy Chao with wholly chao ).

In terms of calendar, St. Tib's Day is identical to February 29 and takes place as a public holiday approximately every four years, analogous to the leap day . The fact that it is inserted between the 59th and 60th day of the first month (chaos) and that no day of the week is assigned to it is the reason why the day and day of the week in the Discordian calendar always correspond to the same day in the Gregorian calendar even in leap years and vice versa.

(Leap) years

1166 BC Chr.	1 YOLD
1 v. Chr.	1166 YOLD
1 AD	1167 YOLD
1959 AD	3125 YOLD
2013 ad	3179 YOLD
2014 AD	3180 YOLD
2015 AD	3181 YOLD

The beginning and therefore the fixed point of the Erisian calendar is the year 1166 BC. Chr.

The intention behind the year counting was probably to synchronize the Discordian year 5 ⁵ = 3125 with the founding year of Discordianism through consistent application of the law of five, resulting in the mentioned difference of 1166 years to the Gregorian calendar: 1959 - 5 ⁵ = −1166.

In the Principia Discordia, the switching rhythm is "once in four years", which led to isolated St. Tib's Day disputes. In the Gregorian calendar, there are no leap days in full centuries that are not centuries, so that an anerisic-literal interpretation of the switching rules would result in the calendar systems drifting apart by about three days in four hundred years (analogous to the earlier Julian calendar ). However, it is said twice that it is a "perpetual" and a "Gregorian" calendar key. It can therefore be assumed that St. Tib's Day will be canceled in the years 2100 (3266 YOLD), 2200 (3366 YOLD) and 2300 (3466 YOLD) according to the Gregorian switching rule.

Date formats

While the Gregorian date format is standardized ( ISO 8601 ), in Discordianism numerous date variants are possible (and also desirable). In order to be able to distinguish between years, after discordic years there is often YOLD, which means Y ear of O ur L ady of D iscord ("Year of Our Lady of Discord"), a satirical allusion to the Christian "Year of Our Lord" .

Sweetmorn, 1st Chaos 3173 Year of Our Lady of Discord
SM, 1 Chs 3173 YOLD
23. Discord
Cfn 69
St. Tib's Day 3170
Bureflux 3172
73.5.3173

The program ddate ( d iscordian date ) is used to convert a date into the Discordian calendar , in which various Discordian date formats can be set; ddate is installed by default in many Linux distributions . For Microsoft Windows , ddate can be found in the CygUtils for Windows program collection .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Book of Uterus (p. 44 of the Principia Discordia)
↑ "Note: Sri Syadasti should not be confused with Blessed St. Gulik the Stoned, who is not the same person but is the same Apostle" (Malaclypse the Younger: Principia Discordia , p. 39f. , "The Five Apostles of Eris & who they be ").

Appendix: Calendar table

						SM	BT	PD	PP	SO
	Gregorian					Discordian
Jan	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	1	2	3	4th	5	I - CHAOS
	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	6th	7th	8th	9	10
	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	11	12	13	14th	15th
	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	21st	22nd	23	24	25th
	26th	27.	28.	29	30th	26th	27	28	29	30th
	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	31	32	33	34	35
Feb	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	36	37	38	39	40
	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	41	42	43	44	45
	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	46	47	48	49	50
	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.	51	52	53	54	55
	25th	26th	27.	28.	1.	56	57	58	59	60
March	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	61	62	63	64	65
	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	66	67	68	69	70
	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	71	72	73	1	2	II - DISCORD
	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	3	4th	5	6th	7th
	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	8th	9	10	11	12
	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	13	14th	15th	16	17th
Apr	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	23	24	25th	26th	27
	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	28	29	30th	31	32
	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th	33	34	35	36	37
	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	38	39	40	41	42
	26th	27.	28.	29	30th	43	44	45	46	47
May	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	48	49	50	51	52
	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10.	53	54	55	56	57
	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	58	59	60	61	62
	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th	63	64	65	66	67
	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	68	69	70	71	72
	26th	27.	28.	29	30th	73	1	2	3	4th	III - CONFUSION
	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
Jun	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	10	11	12	13	14th
	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th
	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23	24
	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	27	28	29
	25th	26th	27.	28.	29	30th	31	32	33	34
	30th	1.	2.	3.	4th	35	36	37	38	39
Jul	5.	6th	7th	8th.	9.	40	41	42	43	44
	10.	11.	12.	13.	14th	45	46	47	48	49
	15th	16.	17th	18th	19th	50	51	52	53	54
	20th	21st	22nd	23.	24.	55	56	57	58	59
	25th	26th	27.	28.	29	60	61	62	63	64
	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	65	66	67	68	69
Aug	4th	5.	6th	7th	8th.	70	71	72	73	1	IV - BUREAUCRACY
	9.	10.	11.	12.	13.	2	3	4th	5	6th
	14th	15th	16.	17th	18th	7th	8th	9	10	11
	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23.	12	13	14th	15th	16
	24.	25th	26th	27.	28.	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st
	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	22nd	23	24	25th	26th
Sep	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	27	28	29	30th	31
	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	32	33	34	35	36
	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	37	38	39	40	41
	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	42	43	44	45	46
	23.	24.	25th	26th	27.	47	48	49	50	51
	28.	29	30th	1.	2.	52	53	54	55	56
Oct	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th	57	58	59	60	61
	8th.	9.	10.	11.	12.	62	63	64	65	66
	13.	14th	15th	16.	17th	67	68	69	70	71
	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd	72	73	1	2	3	V - THE AFTERMATH
	23.	24.	25th	26th	27.	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	9	10	11	12	13
Nov	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	14th	15th	16	17th	18th
	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	19th	20th	21st	22nd	23
	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	24	25th	26th	27	28
	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	29	30th	31	32	33
	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	34	35	36	37	38
	27.	28.	29	30th	1.	39	40	41	42	43
Dec	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	44	45	46	47	48
	7th	8th.	9.	10.	11.	49	50	51	52	53
	12.	13.	14th	15th	16.	54	55	56	57	58
	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	59	60	61	62	63
	22nd	23.	24.	25th	26th	64	65	66	67	68
	27.	28.	29	30th	31.	69	70	71	72	73

[1] Book of Uterus (p. 44 of the Principia Discordia)

[2] "Note: Sri Syadasti should not be confused with Blessed St. Gulik the Stoned, who is not the same person but is the same Apostle" (Malaclypse the Younger: Principia Discordia , p. 39f. , "The Five Apostles of Eris & who they be ").