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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SPoD" data-source="post: 4042492" data-attributes="member: 51268">Ah, OK. How about this:[spoiler]"One twelfth, a day." Or in other words, one month (one of 12) that is also a day name. A scan of the months of the year on Wikipedia reveals that no month is named after the same person/god as a day of the week--in English. However, March is named for Mars (obviously), and Tuesday is named for Tyr--and Tyr is the Norse equivilent of Mars. Further, in Romance languages, Tuesday *IS* named for Mars--"Martis" in Latin, "mardi" in French, etc. So the month that is also a day is March."One ninth, a world undersea." Man in the Funny Hat nailed this one: One of nine planets that is a world undersea: Neptune. Now, there would be some question of why an ancient civilization would think of Neptune as a world undersea--it wasn't named for a sea god until 1613, and there's no observable evidence from the ground that it's any more undersea than any other planet. However, if we're willing to assume that this ancient civilization was advanced enough to observe Neptune long before there were proper telescopes that were powerful enough to do so, then Neptune fits the bill here perfectly."The first twelve indivisible." I think this refers to the first twelve hours of the day. Unlike the other cultural uses of the number 12, this is the only one I can think of that has a FIRST 12 and a second 12. Of course, it might also be intended to read, "The first, twelve indivisible." But then I have no idea.So if it were my character, I would head to the X in March, in the morning, when Neptune was ascendant. (I don't know how I would see Neptune, but still.)[/spoiler]</blockquote>

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