This trope needs its definition clarified and adhered to, and the Trope Repair Shop is full.
Is this about apocalyptic events that are used to start a new epoch
? The title implies this. The first paragraph outright states it.
Or is it about any epoch? This is what many—nay, most—of the examples are for. Now, this might seems like People Sit On Chairs, but to be fair, the selection (and exposition) of an event that a culture feels is epoch-worthy is tropeable.
Thus, both perspectives have validity. We might need two pages to handle them. But what should this page be?
(Of course, any example that's just describing a calendar—especially anything that starts talking about months of the year—is not this trope, it's Alternative Calendar, which is really a supertrope of this one.)
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Linking to a past Trope Repair Shop thread that dealt with this page: Not Thriving
, started by Twentington on Mar 21st 2012 at 2:40:29 AM
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