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Calima is the planet where the Calima Saga takes place. The Pioneers space mission travelled there to colonize it.[1]
It lies in a future time, and a lot of concepts differ from the ones we are used to in the present: language, environment... even some aspects of the human morphology.[2]
Language
The words spoken in Calima are older than anyone who uses them. They were made by the ancestors (or the old gods, or the dreamers, depending on who you ask) whose world was not this one, for things that time contained and this one does not. Those things are gone... probably. The words have stayed, though.
These are not translations, because nobody noticed there was anything to translate. Some words have changed over the cycles because the old terms were too strange or went out of style. Others are still used today because their meaning was powerful and clear enough that nobody needed to invent another.
The language of the ancestors was not one but many, and some kept words that described an idea perfectly, while others simply fancied how they sounded.[3]