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==Composition== As described in the ''Principia Discordia'', the Discordian calendar has five 73-day seasons: [[wiktionary:chaos|Chaos]], [[wiktionary:discord|Discord]], [[wiktionary:confusion|Confusion]], [[Bureaucracy]], and [[wiktionary:aftermath|The Aftermath]]. The Discordian year is aligned with the Gregorian calendar and begins on January 1, thus Chaos 1, {{Dis-year}} YOLD is January 1, [[{{CURRENTYEAR}}]] Gregorian. The Erisian week consists of five days: Sweetmorn, Boomtime, Pungenday, Prickle-Prickle, and Setting Orange. The days of the week are named after the five basic Discordian elements: Sweet, Boom, Pungent, Prickle, and Orange. There are 73 of these weeks per year and every year begins with Sweetmorn. Every fourth year in the Discordian calendar, starting in 2 YOLD, an extra day is inserted between Chaos 59 and Chaos 60 called '''St. Tib's Day'''. This is because 4 years + 1 day = 5, a holy number, but the Discordian [[leap year]] also coincides with the Gregorian one. The result of this is that any given day of the year in the Discordian calendar may be taken to correspond to the same day of the year in the [[Gregorian calendar]], and vice versa, although some users of the calendar believe that it is tied to the [[Julian calendar]] and so will diverge from the Gregorian in 3266 YOLD (AD 2100). St. Tib's Day is considered outside the Discordian week. There are Apostle Holydays on the 5th day of each season, named after the 5 Discordian apostles: Mungday, for [[Hung Mung]]; Mojoday, for Dr. Van Van Mojo; Syaday, for Sri Syadasti; Zaraday, for Zarathud; and Maladay, for Malaclypse the Elder. There are also Season Holydays on the 50th of each season: Chaoflux, Discoflux, Confuflux, Bureflux, and Afflux. {| class="wikitable" |- ! Holyday ! Discordian calendar ! Gregorian calendar |- | Mungday | Chaos 5 | January 5 |- | Chaoflux | Chaos 50 | February 19 |- | St. Tib's Day | St. Tib's Day | February 29 |- | Mojoday | Discord 5 | March 19 |- | Discoflux | Discord 50 | May 3 |- | Syaday | Confusion 5 | May 31 |- | Confuflux | Confusion 50 | July 15 |- | Zaraday | Bureaucracy 5 | August 12 |- | Bureflux | Bureaucracy 50 | September 26 |- | Maladay | The Aftermath 5 | October 24 |- | Afflux | The Aftermath 50 | December 8 |} Only these eleven dates are named in the ''Principia Discordia''; however, Discordians have felt free to invent other holidays which have become popular to varying degrees. Some of these include Discordians for Jesus/Love Your Neighbor Day (March 25/Discord 11); Jake Day (April 6/Discord 23 or occasionally May 23/Discord 70), a day to send tongue-in-cheek letters, emails or faxes to an official or bureaucracy; Saint [[Harold Camping|Camping]]'s Day (May 21/Discord 68), a day to make End of Days predictions and share them in social media; Eris Day (May 23/Discord 70), a day to gather and celebrate Goddess; [[Towel Day]] (May 25/Discord 72); Mid Year's Day (July 2/Confusion 37); [[X-Day (Church of the SubGenius)|X-Day]] (July 5/Confusion 40); and [[Undergarments|Multiversal Underwear Day]] (August 10/Bureaucracy 3).<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 25, 2009 |title=Holydays from the Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia |url=http://discordia.loveshade.org/ek-sen-trik-kuh/holydays/}}</ref>
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