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<strong>World</strong> <strong>Religious</strong> <strong>Calendar</strong> 982<br />

The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.<br />

Celtic (ancient Druid) information<br />

Ogham tree calendar<br />

Muin (M)<br />

Vine Moon<br />

Day 1<br />

The Celtic calendar started out as a moon calendar, but was aligned with the solar year during<br />

antiquity. Robert Graves proposed the Celtic tree calendar described here. While widely used by<br />

Neo-<strong>Pagan</strong>s, many critics dispute the authenticity. The Beth-Luis-Nion calendar (the one used here)<br />

starts with New Year on the Winter Solstice. The Beth-Luis-Faern calendar starts with New Year on<br />

Samhain.<br />

Each Celtic tree month (or moon) is named for a Celtic Ogham letter (first line above) and a tree<br />

(second line above). All of the Celtic months also had additional folk names (folk names for this month<br />

listed below). Robert Graves claimed that the Celts used a 13 month tree calendar. Critics dispute this<br />

claim. Graves’ claims are based on 19th century work by Edward Davies, who found references to the<br />

trees in the 1685 work Ogygia by Ruairi Ó Flaitheartaigh, which was in turn derived from oral history<br />

and older works such as Book of Ballymote and Auraicept na n-Éces.<br />

Polarity: Androgynous<br />

Planet: Venus<br />

Archetype: Branwen or Guinevere<br />

Symbol: swan<br />

Folk Names:<br />

Moon of Celebration<br />

Asatru (ancient Norse) information<br />

Month: Shedding<br />

Roman information<br />

a.d. IV Non. Sept.<br />

4 days before the Nones of September<br />

Month: September<br />

The a.d. IV Non. designation means ante diem or four “days before” the Nones (First Quarter<br />

Moon) of the month. When counting days, the Romans included both the start and end day (in modern<br />

Western culture, we skip the start day). When the Romans switched to a solar calendar, they continued<br />

to use the lunar day names.<br />

The Roman month of September is named for septem, because it was originally the seventh month of<br />

the Roman solar year September was sacred to Vulcan (Vvlcan), Roman God of fire.<br />

The earliest Roman months were lunar. According to Roman mythology, the ten month solar calendar<br />

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