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World Religious Calendar 1279
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Ruis (R)
Elder Moon
Day 1
The Celtic calendar started out as a moon calendar, but was aligned with the solar year during
antiquity. Robert Graves proposed the Celtic tree calendar described here. While widely used by
Neo-Pagans, many critics dispute the authenticity. The Beth-Luis-Nion calendar (the one used here)
starts with New Year on the Winter Solstice. The Beth-Luis-Faern calendar starts with New Year on
Samhain.
Each Celtic tree month (or moon) is named for a Celtic Ogham letter (first line above) and a tree
(second line above). All of the Celtic months also had additional folk names (folk names for this month
listed below). Robert Graves claimed that the Celts used a 13 month tree calendar. Critics dispute this
claim. Graves’ claims are based on 19th century work by Edward Davies, who found references to the
trees in the 1685 work Ogygia by Ruairi Ó Flaitheartaigh, which was in turn derived from oral history
and older works such as Book of Ballymote and Auraicept na n-Éces.
Polarity: Masculine
Planet: Saturn
Archetype: Pryderi, son of Pwyll
Symbol: raven
Folk Names:
Moon of Completeness
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Fogmoon
Roman information
a.d. VII Kal. Dec.
7 days before the Kalends of December
Month: November
The a.d. VII Kal. designation means ante diem or seven “days before” the Kalends (first day or New
Moon) of the next month. When counting days, the Romans included both the start and end day (in
modern Western culture, we skip the start day). When the Romans switched to a solar calendar, they
continued to use the lunar day names.
The Roman month of November is named for novem, because it was originally the ninth month of the
Roman solar year November was sacred to Diana, Roman Goddess of the Moon.
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