Which way is up?

Second Life is an interesting place. There are four "second life" days in a single regular day. If you watch the sun you must come to the conclusion that the planet that makes up Second Life does not have a tilt to its axis so at "noon" the sun is always directly overhead. The sun is never to the north or to the south.

So, does the sun rise on the left and move to the right, or on the right and move to the left? In Second Life the answer is "it doesn't matter". But in the real world, on a cold winter day, you can distinctly view the sun as rising on your right and setting on your left. Or is it the other way around? And now we get the the crux of this post.

It has never bothered me that in my world, where the Elves live, the sun rises on the right and sets on the left while in the few times I have visited the human world, in a place called Japan, I have noticed the sun does just the opposite. They are different worlds after all. Besides, I have a good friend in Second Life who also lives in the human world in a place called Tasmania. She says the sun rises on the right and sets on the left, too.

What made this start to bother me was the calender. Yes, the calender. You see, I realized that the human world and our world have the same equinoxes. Our years are the same length. The axis of the worlds seems to be tilted at the same angle. Our magnetic poles are the same. You might say that the planets that make up our two worlds are identical and exist in identical solar systems. Of course, it isn't true. Our land masses are different. But still, it is peculiar.

Getting back to what is bothering me. So when my Tasmanian friend mentioned the sun for her also rose on the right I thought "Okay, so where we live is relatively the same". Now she lives in a place where the sun is to the north, and I have always considered the sun is to the south. Maybe we just have north and south confused! But that doesn't explain it either. You see, our seasons match those in your northern hemisphere, not your southern hemisphere, and Tasmania is in your southern hemisphere. So the question remains, why does the sun rise to your left, or perhaps, why does it rise to our right?

I have considered possibly time runs in opposite directions for the two worlds, but that does not make sense as I can't remember your future. I briefly thought perhaps, given a planet is a sphere, we lived on the outside and you lived on the inside, but that doesn't work either. You would never see the sun.

Something odd is at play here, something I don't understand. I just know we can enjoy a nice eastern sunset!

When did it begin?

When did it begin? When did what begin?! Well, everything of course! I have researching this question and have decided to write here as I discover things or make my own deductions. As a child growing up I had heard of the crazy old man who lived outside the village in a large stone house, or should I say library? Coincidentally, he happens to not live so far off the trail I run when escaping to the forest for meditation. It also turns out that he has a great great great great grandson named Conyore who is to be my mate just over 5 years.

So back to the question. Well, it is said that after thirteen upon thirteen generations we had forgotten God and God intended to destroy our world. It was the Hobbits and the Eleventh Angel that gave God reason to not destroy our world. That was also, the books have it, that God created the Earth and the humans.

It was about 6,000 to 8,000 years ago we first noticed Humans. If that was the time God intends to destroy our world then it must have been 13 upon 13 generations prior to that that our world was created, or more to the point, when Dawn created the first Elves. Some have suggested the texts imply it was only 26 generations, but most, including myself, take it as 169 generations. So how long is a generation? There is a common belief it it also 169 years, while others consider 128 years as the number, though this seems short.

Recently I have been working on making New Eleven Calenders, associating them with the Human calender. Our New Year starts at what in your world is called the spring equinox. What is interesting is the location of the spring equinox shifts a little each year, taking nearly 26,000 years to circumnavigate the globe. This is called "The Great Year" among other names by Humans. Given the importance the equinox plays in our calender I believe the 169 generations covered one great year.

It is now time for me to curl up into a small ball on my shakedown and gather some sleep.