Pr Ntr Kmt World Religious Calendar Pagan Holy Days

World Religious Calendar 549
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Saille (S)
Willow Moon
Day 28
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: Moon
Archetype: Morgan le Fay
Symbol: serpent
Folk Names:
The Witch’s Moon
Moon of Balance
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Merrymoon
Roman information
a.d. IV Id. Mai.
4 days before the Ides of May
Month: Maius
The a.d. IV Id. designation means ante diem or four “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 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),
549 of 1413 7/14/08 9:29 AM