About this archive

Neithlore is an encyclopedia of Neith, the lost moon of Venus, and of the peoples, creatures, sciences, religions, and histories associated with it: the Chickens who made Neith their home, the Rumps who took it, and the astronomers on Earth who glimpsed it.

Where this archive and the history books disagree, the archive holds that the books were tidied.

Finding your way

• Collections gather entries by subject, from the Rumpnillion Bastadons to the Shvitz Gods.
• The A–Z index lists every entry, with alternative names and spellings as cross-references.
• The chronology sets every dated event on one timeline, and celestial places shows which bodies orbit or lie on others.
• Search ignores accents and ligatures, so “Chaembo” finds “Chæmbo”, and it finds entries by any of their recorded names.

The calendars

The archive's dates use two pairs of calendars.

• AD and BC are the Earth calendar, used for the astronomers of Earth and their sightings.
• CP and BCP count the common era. CP years count forward from the first year of Chæmbo’s Peace; BCP years count back from it. A CP year is close to, but not exactly, an Earth year.

The one fixed point between them is that 1777 AD is “now more widely known as 1898 CP”. Each date is given as its source gives it; the chronology adds an approximate conversion, marked ≈, counted from that point. So 234 CP is about 113 AD, and 327 BCP about 448 BC. The further a date lies from 1777 AD, the less exact its conversion.

How to read the entries

• Qualifications in the sources — “believed”, “rumored”, a named speaker's accusation — are kept, and marked in facts and dates where they apply.
• Names recorded with more than one spelling list each spelling with the entry, so a search for any of them finds it.
• Some entries are brief because little is recorded of their subjects. They grow as the archive does.

Links

Every entry has a permanent link of the form /id/… that keeps working if the entry is renamed, and every section of an entry can be linked to directly.

Contributors

The archive is maintained by its author and a small number of invited contributors. Every change is recorded in the entry's revision history.