Canthan Months

[Starwatcher]

I was rereading Zho's Journal the other day and this time I noticed the dates at the top of each page. For example, the first date is written as "7 Songtahn 1584 CC." I think it's safe to assume that Songtahn is a month. From the journal we can get some idea of the order of some of them. Here is the order in which they are written in the journal:

Year 1:
Songtahn

Year 2:
Saita, Nemnai, Beibacah, Yundinfang

Year 3:
Zhoyo, Nongkam, Zalfawn, Mikan, Nemnai, Yundinfang

Year 4:
Saita

Of course there could be others that aren't written in the journal. There are 9 here, but I've never noticed anything that says how many months there actually are in a Canthan year. Even if the Canthan new year happens at the same time every year for us, that would just mean that their year is the same length, but the months are different lengths than ours.

What do yall think? Does anyone know of any other references to the months of the year in the game?

[Konig Des Todes]

If you look in the Factions Manual, you'll notice on the calendar page that there are 12 months - 3 per season, which can also be found on the official wiki "Canthan calendar" page. How the months/seasons work:

Season of the Zephyr (Air aligned) days 1-90:

Changhai
Zhoyo
Nongkam

Season of the Phoenix (Fire aligned) days 91-180:

Zalfawn
Saita
Mikan

Season of the Scion (Water aligned) days 181-270:

Nemnai
Beibacah
Suzhen

Season of the Colossus (Earth aligned) days 271-360:

Yundinfang
Songtahn
Kainengtah

Edit: Something I just realized: The last month is the same as the first canthan emperor. And the first has the same name as the first ascended canthan emperor.

Edit2: Do note that there are only months for the canthans in GW1, Tyrians and Elonians go only by the seasons which each last 90 days. The Tyrian year is 5 (6 for leap year) days shorter than ours, but is apparently perfectly even in how it is divided, each canthan month even has precisely 30 days.

[Sir Jack]

Edit: Something I just realized: The last month is the same as the first canthan emperor. And the first has the same name as the first ascended canthan emperor.

This isn't so odd as some of our current months were based on Roman emperors. July was based on Julius Caesar, August on the first Roman Emperor Octave/Augustus. September, October, November and December are based on the Latin names for 7, 8, 9 and 10 (Septem, Octo, Novem, Decem), because originally March/Martius (after the Roman God Mars) was the first month of the year (because of the use of spring as the start of the year), making the numbers fit. January (after Janus, the two-faced Roman God of gates, doors, doorways, beginnings and endings) became the first month of the year only later.

It could be possible the other months are based on similar aspects.