Church And State II

See Church And State.

For another literary comment on church and state, see James Joyce misquoted here.

One responsibility of the Pontifex Maximus is to adjust the calendar. Thus, there was a Julian calendar and now a Gregorian calendar. (Scroll down.) I trust that, in the Terran Empire, there will still be a Pontifex Maximus, based in Rome.

Since I will entrain for London in less than an hour, this is definitely my last gasp until maybe sometime on Monday.

You all have a good weekend.

What Became Of Some Of The Merpeople

The former Liri King is now "...captain in the Royal Navy of Magyarorszag and Hrvatska..." (The Merman's Children, Book Four, Chapter VII, p. 230)

"On the feast of St. Matthew the Apostle..." (p. 239), his daughter is christened and becomes Dagmar.

Matthew is recognized as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran^[30] and Anglican churches. (See St. Matthew's Church.) His feast day is celebrated on 21 September in the West and 16 November in the East. (For those churches which follow the traditional Julian Calendar, 16 November currently falls on 29 November of the modern Gregorian Calendar). He is also commemorated by the Orthodox, together with the other Apostles, on 30 June (13 July), the Synaxis of the Holy Apostles
-copied from here.

However, what is to be the fate of the former king's son, Tauno, who refuses Christianity?

Falkayn's Age IV

Sandra Miesel's Chronology of Technic Civilization (see here) rightly puts the birth of David Falkayn seventeen years before "The Three-Cornered Wheel"  and could have placed "A Sun Invisible" exactly three years after "The Three-Cornered Wheel" instead of more vaguely in the 2420s but how was it determined that "The Three-Cornered Wheel" occurred in 2423 rather than in any other year? There is disagreement about the dating of the Chronology (see the above link) but my question is: how was any specific year decided on in the first place?

If, for the sake of argument, "The Three-Cornered Wheel" were to be dated to 2423, then "Lodestar" should be dated to 2439 for its first part and 2449 for its second part whereas the Chronology gives 2446. I am rereading "The Trouble Twisters" for any clues about Falkayn's age but not for year dates because none are given. Does Technic Civilization even keep the Gregorian calendar?

In our first sight of the trader team:

Captain David Falkayn, human, Hermetian, Master Merchant of the Polesotechnic League;
Adzel, Wodenite, planetologist;
Chee Lan, Cynthian, xenobiologist;
and Muddlehead, consciousness-level spaceship's computer -

- are playing poker in the ship, Muddlin' Through, as they do again at the very end of Satan's World. There, the renewed card game signifies that life has returned to normal after a crisis. But history will move forward, nevertheless.