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The third week (eight days) of each Zoroastrian month celebrates moral qualities.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Beth (B)
Birch Moon
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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).
Polarity: Feminine
Planet: Sun
Archetype: Taliesin (Celtic God of Bards)
Symbol: eagle or stag
Folk Names:
Moon of Inception
Moon of Beginning
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Snowmoon
Roman information
a.d. VIII Id. Ian.
8 days before the Ides of January
Month: Ianvarivs or Ianuarius or Januarius or Janus
The a.d. VIII Id. designation means ante diem or eight “days before” the Ides (Full Moon) of the
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 January is named for Janus (Ianvs). January was sacred to Janus, the Roman
God of gates, doors, and entrances. Janus was an early Italic sky god that long predated Rome. Ovid
claimed that Janus said “The ancient called me chaos, for a being from of old am I.” Ovid also claimed
that after the world’s creation, Janus said, “It was then that I, till that time a mere ball, a shapeless lump,
assumed the face and members of a god.” Joannes of Lydia said, “Our own Philadelphia still preserves
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