Timelore

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    the knowledge or study of time; chronology nonstandard, rare, uncountable

    "That's a minimum of 2,592,000 years ago, assuming we are almost at the end of the Kaliyuga (the worst of four yugas and an age of darkness), and we calculate only up to the end of the Satyayuga, which itself lasted 1,728,000 years, according to Vedic timelore."

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"That's a minimum of 2,592,000 years ago, assuming we are almost at the end of the Kaliyuga (the worst of four yugas and an age of darkness), and we calculate only up to the end of the Satyayuga, which itself lasted 1,728,000 years, according to Vedic timelore."

Etymology

From time + lore.

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