Fly the storyTWO SHIPS · ELEVEN STEPS
Use Next to move through the story. Three steps are moments you trigger yourself: Boarding, Take-off and the Shift.
In simple words
NOMOS · The 13:20 Frequency
Spacetimeship
Your body is your timeship. The Earth is the mothership of humanity. Your body keeps the 13:20 count. The Earth keeps the year. Fly through the story below, then choose any day to see both clocks.
Start hereTHE SYSTEM IN ONE MINUTE
You already use two clocks every day: the hour on your phone and the date on the calendar. NOMOS reads time with two other clocks: one for your body, one for the Earth. Six words are all you need.
- Nomos
- One of 20 avatars, like Dreamer, Guide or Hero. Every day belongs to one of them. Yours is the one of the day you were born.
- Numeral
- A number from 1 to 13. It is the strength, or vibration, of the day.
- Nom
- The energy of one day: a numeral + a Nomos. There are 260 different Noms, then the count starts again.
- Year
- The Earth's year: 18 cycles of 20 days + 5 closing days. It opens in mid-February and is held by one of four Year Carriers.
- Year Carrier
- One of four Nomos that holds the whole year. It takes its seat on the first day of the year.
- The Shift
- 21.12.2012, when a very long cycle closed. Every 21 December remembers it.
The control deckCHOOSE YOUR DAY
Type a date, pick one from the calendar, or step one day at a time. Try your birthday.
NOMClock of your body
The energy of this day. This clock never stops and never resets.
YEARClock of the Earth
Where the Earth is in its traditional year. A new year and a new Carrier arrive each February.
The tradition keeps two calendarsTWO CLOCKS
NOM · The sacred count
13 numerals × 20 Nomos = 260 days. Each day, the numeral and the Nomos both move one step. It counts every day without stopping. It is the only clock used for your Nomos and your Cross.
YEAR · The solar year
18 cycles × 20 days + 5 closing days = 365. The solar year of the living count. It opens in mid-February with the Year Carrier, and every 20-day cycle opens on the Carrier's Nomos.
Together
Two traditional calendars, turning like two cogwheels of different sizes. Neither one changes the other. They meet at the same point again only after 18,980 days, which is exactly 52 years: one full round of the four Carriers.
Your Nom tells you the energy of the day.
The year tells you where the Earth is.
THE TRADITIONAL YEAR
365 days: 18 cycles of 20 days and 5 closing days. The year opens in mid-February with the Year Carrier, and every 20-day cycle opens again on the Carrier's Nomos.
How to read itThe ring is one year, starting at the top on the day the Carrier takes its seat. Each arc is a 20-day cycle; the short dashed arc is the 5 closing days. The lit arc is the cycle you are in. Tap any arc to open that cycle below, then tap a day to see its Nom and what to practise.
PlanTHE NEXT 13 DAYS
One full climb of the numerals, from the day you chose. Tap a day to travel there.
THE 260 NOMS
13 numerals meet 20 Nomos, one step each day. The same pair returns only after 260 days. This clock never resets.
Hover a Nom · click to travel there
How to read the gridRead it column by column, top to bottom. Nom 1 is top left, Nom 20 is at the bottom of the first column, Nom 21 starts the second. Each row is one Nomos, with its sigil on the left. The bright dot is the day you chose. The pulsing dot is Nom 160, the Shift.
The shift21 · 12 · 2012
NOM 160 · NUMERAL 4 · HERO
A long cycle closed on the last Nomos. It was the close of a cycle, not the end of the world. Completion became foundation, and the timeship began to shift timelines.
The edge of the yearTHE PASSAGE
Every year ends with four moments over three days. You can live them as a ritual.
20.12 · the eve of the solstice
Boarding
Write down everything unfinished and let it go: burn the paper safely or tear it up. Then your timeship boards the mothership of humanity. Nothing unfinished boards the ship.
Midnight · 20 → 21 December
Take-off
The old light is complete. The mothership lifts off and leaves ordinary time.
21.12 · NOMOS Day Out of Time
The Shift
The sun stands still. 24 hours of silence: no screens, no work, no words. The ordinary clock stops. Your Nom keeps turning in silence.
22.12 · The light returns
Ignition
The light begins to grow again. Speak one intention out loud: your first words after the silence. The ship is new. So are you.
Measured · MeaningTHE FACTS BEHIND THE SPACETIMESHIP
What is measured, and what NOMOS reads in it.
01The Nom clock · 260 days+
Measured
A 260-day count of 13 numbers and 20 signs, kept without interruption for more than two thousand years, and still kept by living daykeepers today.
Meaning
Your Nom is the frequency of the day. It never stops, never skips, and never resets with the year.
02The body · 13 and 20+
Measured
The body has 13 major joints (ankles, knees, hips, wrists, elbows, shoulders, neck) and 20 digits. The old count was built on base 20: the fingers and toes of one body.
Meaning
Your body is built on the same numbers as the count. It is your timeship.
03Forming a human · about 260 days+
Measured
A human pregnancy lasts around nine months, close to the length of the 260-day count. The tradition links the count to the time a human takes to form.
Meaning
You arrive already carrying the rhythm of the timeship.
04The year · 18 × 20 + 5+
Measured
The living count keeps a solar year of 18 cycles of 20 days plus 5 closing days. A year of 365 days is 18 × 20 + 5, so each new year opens 5 Nomos further on. Only four Nomos can ever open a year.
Meaning
The Earth is the mothership of humanity. Each year it is held by one Carrier, one for each direction.
05The Day Out of Time · 21.12+
Measured
Around 21 December is the solstice: the sun's rising point stops along the horizon before turning back. "Solstice" means the sun stands still.
Meaning
Once a year the mothership stops in silence. On 22 December the light returns.
06The shift · 21.12.2012+
Measured
On that date a long cycle of the ancient count closed, on the 20th sign with the number 4. It was the close of a cycle, not a prophecy of an ending.
Meaning
Completion became foundation. The timeship began to shift timelines.
07The two gears · 18,980 days+
Measured
260 and 365 line up again only after 18,980 days: 73 cycles of 260, and 52 cycles of 365. The old cultures honoured this 52-year return, and whoever lived through it became an elder.
Meaning
One full turn of both gears is one full round of the four Carriers, and one full turn of a life.
0812:60 and 13:20+
Measured
Our 12 hours and 60 minutes come from the ancient Babylonian base-60 system.
Meaning
12:60 is mechanical time. 13:20 is the rhythm of the body and of the traditional count.
09The Passage · 20, 21, 22 December+
Measured
Many cultures close the year with a night of clearing and a day of rest. In Bali, the year ends with a night of releasing and a full day of island-wide silence.
Meaning
Board light, take off, cross the day out of time in silence, and ignite the new year with one intention.
10What the year changes+
Measured
Your Nomos, your Cross and your NOMOSOM are calculated only from the Nom clock. The year and its Carrier are never used in those calculations.
Meaning
The Carrier is the weather of the year. It changes nothing about who you are. It only tells you which wind is blowing.
The numbers are measured.
The meaning is ours.
18 cycles · 20 days · 5 closing days
13 numerals · 20 Nomos · 260 Noms
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