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World Religious Calendar 859
Ogham tree calendar
Tinne (T)
Holly Moon
Day 25
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: Earth
Archetype: Danu
Symbol: flaming spear
Folk Names:
Moon of Encirclement
Moon of Polarity
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Harvest
Roman information
Kal. Avg. or Kal. Sex.
Kalends of August
Month: Sextilis or Avgvstvs or Augustus
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 Sextilis is named for sex or sext, because it was originally the sixth month of
the Roman solar year. In 8 BCE, the Roman Senate renamed the month Augustus (August), for then
Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar. August was sacred to Ceres, Roman Goddess of grain.
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, Sextilis (the sixth 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, Sextilis
had 29 days. Gaius Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus (supreme bridge-builder, a religious title),
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