The metric calendar relates earthly dates to the Sun on which all life on Earth and also the state of inorganic things depend. While our planet revolves about this incandescent body, its position changes with respect to the latitude of places on Earth. Movement is relative tho, and while it is this planet which revolves, it is as if the Sun moves across the Earth's latitudes: from the equator to the southern tropic --as we will call it--, from the southern tropic to the equator, from the equator to the northern tropic, and back to the equator. The accompanying change of seasons is one of the most significant phenomena of the natural world we live in, particularly in the temperate and moderate regions. Not only do many plants and animals around us depend on this yearly cycle in which seasons succeed each other, but also the weather and --it is sometimes said-- even the mood of human beings. Moreover, this seasonal diversity is timeless. It is as old as the age of this planet, and will remain with human beings so long as they inhabit this planet. It has also acted a major role in the life of human beings from the beginning on, or from the moment they migrated from the tropical region to temperate and colder regions.

Those whose work was or is in the field have always related their activities to the time of the year, that is to the movement of the Sun. (But, naturally, calendar names such as Wine-Month, Frost-Month and Harvest-Month are territorially exclusivistic, if meant to be universal.) And they did not connect only their work with the Sun and the seasons, but their world-view, too, often reflected their immediate dependence on the land, the seasons and the Sun. Still today the life of human beings is closely related to the orderly movement of the planets about this star. This orderly movement is practically eternal, and so is the succession of seasons. The regular movement of the Sun across the Earth's latitudes epitomizes in this way the fascinating order of the whole solar system we live in, if not of nature itself.

Let us now describe the relationship between the Sun and the Earth's latitudes in catenical terms. Of all these latitudes the equator is the central or neutral one; places in the northern hemisphere are located at a positive latitude, places in the southern hemisphere at a negative one, or vice versa. One of the predicates of the Sun is its position with regard to these earthly latitudes. It is in a positive position when between the equator and the northern tropic, in a neutral position when above the equator and in a negative position when between the equator and the southern tropic. This predicate concerns only the position of the Sun with regard to our own planet, and it does not have any universality, but since there is no question of any universally (known) positive, neutral and negative position, we may, being on Earth, relate the Sun to this planet and its latitudes. Altho this is an exclusive choice from the perspective of the whole universe (if there is such a perspective), it is not exclusive with regard to the situation on Earth, so long as we do not apply our conclusions or our symbols to systems greater than or outside this planet (for example, to other planets).

On the Equinoctial Days (Prime 14 and 40) the Sun is above the Earth's equator and in a state of latitudinal neutrality. After these days it starts to move away from the equator. The force which causes the Sun to do this is, so far as this aspect is concerned, an unneutral-directed force, because it brings this star in a state of latitudinal unneutrality. On New Year Solstitial Day (Prime 1) the Sun reaches the southern tropic or most negative latitude, and after this moment it starts to return to the neutral latitude, the equator. The force which causes the Sun to do this is then a neutral-directed force, and a period of neutral-directedness has set in. A second period of neutral-directedness commences on Midyear Solstitial Day (Prime 27), when the Sun returns to the neutral latitude from the northern tropic or most positive latitude.

In the short term, taking the span of only one year, the forces which make the Sun move from the equator to one of the tropics, and back, are both neutral-directed and unneutral-directed forces, neither sort being stronger than the other. But in the long term, taking the life of our solar system, the force which keeps the Sun moving across the Earth's latitudes keeps this star on the average above the equator by perfectly balancing the period of time it is above the positive latitudes and the period of time it is above the negative ones. The nanaic force which maintains this latitudinal neutrality of the Sun when differentiating over the life span of the solar system is, of course, nothing else than the force of gravity. It is gravitation which keeps our solar system (and also our galactic system) in an orderly condition. And it is gravitation which is the creative power behind the movement of the planets (and stars), that is, the 'creator' of nature in a physical sense.

We are human beings who live in terms of years, the life span of a solar system being something practically incomprehensible for us. Having such a short life, the seasonal movement of the Sun means something to us, ephemeral as it may be compared with the life of a solar system. As throughout the universe, our world is a world of neutrality and unneutrality, of nanapolar and unnanapolar or nan-nanapolar catenality, and when the Sun is above the neutral latitude, this may be regarded as symbolic of ananicity; and when the Sun is above a positive or negative latitude, but starts to move in the direction of the equator again, this may be regarded as symbolic of nanaicity. Those for whom these symbols are meaningful may observe the special days that the Sun is above the neutral latitude, or has started to move back again from one of the extreme latitudes. So the succession of the seasons can be related to the all-nanaic and the creative, nanaic or nonnanaic, transient forces; and it can be related to the all-ananic and the neutrality or unneutrality of momentary solar positions.

Yet, there is no obligation to observe the special days on which one quarter succeeds the other, because by merely observing them no-one is less or more nanaic (in a direct sense) than anyone else to whom this symbolism does not appeal. But for those who recognize these Sundays they represent ananicity and nanaicity, and can rightfully be called "Days of Neutrality". (It should be borne in mind that a name like Sunday is a nondenominational one, whereas Day of Neutrality is a denominational name typical of the DNI's symbolism. Moreover, we will discuss shortly why a Day of Neutrality is not necessarily a Sunday. If it is, however, one may always say "Sunday" instead of "Day".)

The DNI does not force its symbolism on anyone, even not on an adherent of the Ananorm, but it forbids the use of symbols or the perpetuation of symbolism incompatible with the DNI's fundamental principles. This aspect of our doctrine carries especially much weight on the four quarter days, regardless of whether one personally observes the Days of Neutrality or not. Thus, no person living under the denomination of the Ananorm shall, on a Sunday in particular, accept or give away money contaminated with a theodemonist or party-political symbol or any other antisymbol. Thus, no person living under the denomination of the Ananorm shall, on a Sunday in particular, recognize a state constitution, law or regulation opening or closing with, or otherwise contaminated with, a theodemonist or party-political symbol or any other antisymbol. And thus, no person living under the denomination of the Ananorm shall, on a Sunday in particular, submit to any forcible confrontation with religious or party-political symbols, unless resistance to religionism or political dictatorship on such a day does not serve the supreme goal of neutral-inclusivity in the end.