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World Religious Calendar 764
Ogham tree calendar
Tinne (T)
Holly Moon
Day 1
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). Robert Graves claimed that the Celts used a 13 month tree calendar. Critics dispute this
claim. Graves’ claims are based on 19th century work by Edward Davies, who found references to the
trees in the 1685 work Ogygia by Ruairi Ó Flaitheartaigh, which was in turn derived from oral history
and older works such as Book of Ballymote and Auraicept na n-Éces.
Polarity: Feminine
Planet: Earth
Archetype: Danu
Symbol: flaming spear
Folk Names:
Moon of Encirclement
Moon of Polarity
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Haymoon
Roman information
a.d. VIII Id. Quin. or a.d. VIII Id. Ivl.
8 days before the Ides of July
Month: Quintilis or Quinctilis or Ivlivs or Julius
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 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
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