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World Religious Calendar 623
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: Masculine
Planet: Vulcan
Archetype: Govennan (Celtic God of Smiths)
Symbol: chalice
Folk Names:
Moon of Restraint
Moon of Hinderance
Summer Moon
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Midyear
Roman information
Kal. Ivn.
Kalends of June
Month: Ivnivs or Junius
The Kalends is the first day of the month and was celebrated as a religious holy day to Juno, the
Roman Queen Goddess. In the earliest Roman lunar calendar, the Kalends was the day of the New
Moon. In Roman society, interest on a debt was due on the Kalends. Under the lunar calendar, a
pontifex (priest) would observe the sky and call out the first sighting of the thin lunar crescent of the
New Moon, indicating the start of a new month. The English word calendar comes from the Latin word
Kalends, which in turn came from the Latin word calare meaning to announce solemly or to call out.
The Roman month of Junius is named for Juno. June was sacred to Juno, Roman Queen Goddess.
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, June (the fourth month) had 30 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, June had
29 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), June
had 30 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 1 in modern Western numerology.
numerology
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