"Long ago, three bright moons once hung high in the night sky. These three moons were sisters ... They navigated the heavens above in their silver carriage, alternating with one another thrice a month. If the reign was not promptly passed from one sister to the next, a terrible disaster would occur that very day."
This one's not anything heavy like my Sumeru stuff so don't worry. I just wanted to point out a possible inspiration for the moon sisters specifically how they have to take turns being the moon every month. If we think about that there are on average 30 days per month and there's 3 of them. So each of them should get 10 days right? Allow me to introduce you to the traditional Chinese 10 day week!
In my Kusanali theory I talked about why we have a 7 day week. In short there was a thing about Seven Classical Planets and our days of the week are named after them. Sunday for sun, Monday (moonday) for moon and so on.
But of course China has no ties to Babylon so they developed their own stuff like astrology, elements and also measurements of time like the week separate from the Babylonian versions. Called the 旬 xun the 10 day Chinese week was based on the Ten Heavenly Stems (this counting system in China) and these names coupled with the Twelve Earthly Branches together also name the years of an Emperor's rule. With a 30 day month this neatly splits into 3 of these xun weeks. [emoji]
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Now this last part is totally speculation and I have nothing really to back it up so feel free to skip over it. Anyway I think most people know that this calendar system in China is a lunar system while the system we use today is a solar system. So what if the whole point of Genshin's moon sisters (besides pointing out that the world existed for longer than Grampy Zhongli [emoji]) is just an easter egg about the fall of the lunar calendar system and the rise of the solar one that was developed by Rome and was used in old Christian society? (Yes I know the lunar system is still in use in Asia. We're doing an event about a holiday from that calendar right now. But there was a lunar system in the west too all derived from the Babylonian one. Christian holidays like Easter are still calculated each year based on that lunar system.)
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