the Scintillating Year

a riff on the 256-day calendar

There’s a new page regarding the Scintillating Year.

Unlike the fixed 256-day calendar, which does not apply to the Leap Day, the Scintillating 256-day calendar does. This means that every 4 years, the colours of the days of the year shift by 1, which also effects the glyphs of the 260-day calendar.

Calendar Glyph Table

comparing glyphs from 260-day calendars

	theAbysmal 260-day calendar	Maya tzolkin	Nahua tōnalpōhualli	New Age dreamspell
I	turtle	waterlily	caiman	dragon
II	wind	wind	wind	wind
III	night	night	house	night
IV	web	net	lizard	seed
V	serpent	serpent	serpent	serpent
VI	death	death	death	worldbridger
VII	deer	deer	deer	hand
VIII	rabbit	Venus	rabbit	star
IX	moon	water	water	moon
X	coyote	dog	dog	dog
XI	raccoon	monkey	monkey	monkey
XII	mushroom	rain	grass	human
XIII	tobacco	young maize	reed	skywalker
XIV	bear	jaguar	jaguar	wizard
XV	goshawk	eagle	eagle	eagle
XVI	fisher	wax	vulture	warrior
XVII	earthquake	earth	earthquake	earth
XVIII	mirror	flint	knife	mirror
XIX	storm	rainstorm	rain	storm
XX	sun	sun	flower	sun

comparison of meaning assigned to 20 glyphs in four different calendar systems: theAbysmal, tzolkin, tōnalpōhualli, and dreamspell.