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World Religious Calendar 756
Day 27
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: Masculine
Planet: Jupiter
Archetype: Dagda
Symbol: golden wheel
Folk Names:
Moon of Strength
Moon of Security
Bear Moon
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Haymoon
Roman information
prid. Non. Quin. or prid. Non. Ivl.
(pridie) eve of the Nones of July
Month: Quintilis or Quinctilis or Ivlivs or Julius
The pridie Nones is the eve of the Nones. Pridie (abbreviated prid.) is Latin for “the evening before”.
The Roman month of Quintilis (or Quinctilis) is named for quin, because it was originally the fifth
month of the Roman solar year. In 45 BCE, the Roman Senate renamed the month Julius (July), for then
Roman Emperor Julius Caesar. July was sacred to Jupiter (Ivppiter), Roman King of Gods.
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, Quintilis (the fifth 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, July 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), July had
31 days. Caesar’s calendar was calculated by Sosigenes, an Egyptian astrologer/astronomer. The Roman
Senate changed the name of the month Quintilis to Julius (July) in honor of the Roman Emperor Julius
Caesar. 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.
numerology
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