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Gorean Book Quote Requests
Requests 1-173 were asked and answered back when there were only 25 books.
Also, some of the early questions were unintentionally truncated and cannot be restored. However, the answers are shown in their totality.
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| 317 | Is it correct to call the 5 day period a week or a hand when referring to the Gorean calendar... ie:A year consists of twelve months and thirteen hands. Each month equals five weeks, each week consisting of five days. This means a Gorean year has 365 days.
or is this correct? "Eleventh Month
~First Hand (Jan. 15-19)
~Second Hand (Jan. 20-24)
~Third Hand (Jan. 25-29)
~Fourth Hand (Jan. 30-Feb. 3)
~Fifth Hand (Feb. 4-8)
Eleventh Passage Hand (Feb. 9-13)
I thank you in advance for your time Master...
Answer
To answer your question, no, it is not correct to call the 5 day period a Hand.
Just because we are speaking of five days, and there are five fingers on a hand, does not make the two synonymous.
If we used that logic, a foot has five toes, why does no one call a Gorean week a Foot?
There are five pennies in a nickel, why does no one call a Gorean week a Nickle?
Each set of five, five day weeks, is separated by another five day period which is called a Passage Hand.
But this five day period is never referred to as a Hand. It is always referred to as a Passage Hand.
No comparison of a Passage Hand to a human hand should be made.
I also direct you to this page on Weeks
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