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Month: Merrymoon
Roman information
Non. Mai.
the Nones of May
Month: Maius
The Nones was originally the first Quarter Moon (half of a moon, a quarter of the lunar cycle) of the
month in the early Roman lunar calendar. The Latin word nones meaning “ninth”. When counting days,
the Romans included both the start and end day (in the modern West we skip the start day). Using the
Roman counting system, there were always nine days (eight using modern counting) between the Nones
and the Ids of any month. The actual average time from the lunar First Quarter to the lunar Full Moon is
about 7.4 days, but the Romans rounded up. The Nones occurred on the seventh day of March, May,
July, and October, and on the fifth day of all other months.
The Roman month of Maius is named for Maia. Maia was a daughter of Atlas. May was sacred to
Maia, Roman Goddess of spring.
The earliest Roman months were lunar. According to Roman mythology, the ten month solar calendar
aligned to the vernal equinox was introduced by Romulus, the founder of Rome, around 753 BCE. In
Romulus’ calendar, May (the third month) had 31 days. Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven
traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, May had
31 days. Gaius Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus (supreme bridge-builder, a religious title),
reorganized the calendar on the first day of 45 BCE. In Caesar’s calendar (the Julian Calendar), May
had 31 days. Caesar’s calendar was calculated by Sosigenes, an Egyptian astrologer/astronomer. In 8
BCE, Augustus Caesar fixed errors by pontiffs after Julius’ death and made other minor modifications,
resulting in the modern Western calendar. The modern Gregorian Calendar, named for Roman Catholic
Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, was a realignment in 1582.
Today totals 7 in modern Western numerology.
numerology
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