The working Calendar of Aremorica and Celtica:
As Aiia described to Demetrios her families belief in the way the world works, how the seasons are the embodiment of gods and goddesses in a way that he, the Greek, can understand: “We believe that the winter is Cronus, the Summer is Aphrodite, and the spring Persephone, and that we call them by these names and believe that from Cronus and Aphrodite all things have their origin. Cronus is asleep in the winter and awake in the summer, we will sing lullabies for him in the winter and in the summer chants to arouse him, after the manner of those Bacchic worshippers. Even though he sleeps – his powers are of this world – the dreams of Cronus as he sleeps in his cave deep in golden rock on the island in the western ocean. He even anticipates in his thoughts everything his son Zeus does.”
Ocean: Mori
Winter is time for lobster and crab to come close to shore and enter the traps from September 23 through March 22 (Sepit in samanios au-c gamonios etsi cammari eti crabanca sos scetos con mori-milon.)
March 23 begins the herring, anchovies and sardines swarming along the coast and runs until September 22 (Siluri-c Arinci eti Iscili)
April haddock and cod cruise along the coast of Denmark, Germany, Britain, France and Spain and run up to September 22 (Codaci eti Codi)
May is when the Mighty Atlantic Tuna (Tunni) sweep into the Bay of Biscay and through the Channel islands, and the Perch (perca), Striped-Bass (lupus), Halibut, (curroco), and Sole (palaica) will run from May up to September 22
Rivers: Abona
Salmon (Esox) run from March 23 to September 22 (the spring season)
Shad and Elvers (Alousa eti Iouincocilis) run from June 22 to September 22 (Eels = enocilis, enochilis || Elvers = Iouincocilis) (the summer season)
Minnows and Dace (Uari eti Uindisi) run in the fast flowing, icy rivers from September 23 to March 22 (the winter season)
Forest and Field: Cetio eti Clunia
June 22 to September 21 we see the rutting begin of the oxen (Uri) and the bison (Uisontos) with the bear (Artios) hunting the salmon in the rushing river in the hot months of summer.
September 22 to March 22 the running of the boar (Torcuos) in the forest, the hare (casnos), rabbit (cuninca), coney (laurex), short-eared mountain-rabbit or pika (hysex), elk (Alcis) and deer (Gammos) herald the cold winter months return, all during the dark half.
March 23 to June 21 the song birds (Etni) all hail the coming spring and the hunting of the geese (ganti eti anaganti), pheasant (tetaros), woodcock (cetiocaliacos) and other fowl on their return to the breeding grounds.
March 23 to September 22 the lowing lion (marocattus) in his pride hunting the oxen (uri), buck (caruos), elk (alcis) and bison (uisontos) during the light half.
Of Farm and Pasture: Storo eti Etu
Ambaxtios || Samanios : (Libra, the Scales is the Cauarian lord Belenos, with serpentine legs) (September – October): a time to harvest peas; breed cattle; harvest honey; plow fields for winter grain; sow winter wheat and rye; harvest apples, blackberries; take excess stock to market. Fruits picked and dried or stored, grapes picked and pressed for juice and wine. With my flail I earn my bread. Rye, the grain, is sown at this time, germinates, and overwinters in the fields, resuming growth in the spring.
Dumomandios : (Scorpio, the Scorpion is the serpent entwined egg that Toutatis Medurix will be born of) (October – November): Sow winter barley and oats; harvest grapes; make wine and grape-juice; breed sheep; let pigs forage on acorns and beechnuts. Gather nuts, roots, and berries, and mushrooms, fields’ plowed and empty fields sown with winter wheat, repairing and cleaning equipment. And here I sow my wheat so red. "Broken flax and hemp stalk" time (indicating the traditional time of processing flax and hemp for the production of linen, a process which, as a waste by-product, created light-weight dendrites floating in the wind. Festival of Farewell to the Lark occurs halfway through the circuit of Scorpio when we bid fare-flight to the Lark as he flies to his distant hiding place in the south. This is the “Setting of the Doves” and is a festival of lights on the full moon coinciding with the setting of the Pleiades setting in November this effectively ends the deep water sailing season on the rough Atlantic, which also signals the time of plowing your fields and starts the slaughtering season.
Riuregus : month of the frozen rye (RIV), sleeping peacefully under the frozen earth (RI). (Sagittarius, the Archer is Epos, Riuos, Sucellos, Half-man, half-horse, a prodigal son of Epona (who is Reiia) and Belenos) (November – December): The time when unsuspecting pigs get fatter and fatter; threshing and winnowing continue through the winter. Firewood is gathered, split, and stacked for themselves and peat for the hearth is also gathered, pigs and cows slaughtered and meat smoked, flax and hemp processed to make thread and rope.
Anagantia : (Capricorn, the Goat is Gabronos the goat with the huge primal penis) (December – January): The slaughter of Mid-winter Geese; and it’s never too early to shovel manure. Trim trees, grape vines pruned, and hunting. And we drink our red wine.
Ogorunia : (Aquarius, the Water Carrier is Esus and his pruning knife approach the tree of the universe) (January – February): Clear ditches; cut wood; breed sows; spread manure; lambs are in the belly and some early lambs are born. Work indoors repairing hunting nets, sharpening tools, making utensils - on mild days work outdoors gather firewood, prune vines and mend fences. By this fire I yet warm my hands.
Cutios : (Pisces, the Fish is Iscos the whale) (February – March): Prune grapes and fruit trees; prune and mend hedgerows; mend fences; kill moles; plant willow; add lime, chalk and manure to soil; lambing continues; calving begins. Work indoors repairing hunting nets, sharpening tools, making utensils - on mild days work outdoors gather firewood, prune vines and mend fences. And with my spade I delve my land. Festival of the return of the Lark halfway through the constellation of Pisces marks the coming springtide and the festival of the Mother goddess, when peace reigns and all weapons are sheathed.
Sonnocingus || Gammionia: (Aries, the Ram is Gabronatirx, the Ram-Horned serpent) (March – April): Plow and harrow as soon as the ground is soft enough; sow spring grains; calving continues. Work in the fields, plowing and cultivating. Here I set my thoughts to spring. The Raven, Crow or Rook time symbolizing the struggle. Rooks increase their activity at this time, building their nests and mating. The alternate derivation, to struggle’ refers to the struggle between winter and spring. This is when deer hunting begins under the auspices of Artiona.
Simiuisonna: (Taurus, the Bull is Taruos and Trigaranos hiding in the tree of the universe which Esus is chopping at) (April – May): there is a pause to celebrate the new life bursting out of the ground, the vigor and vitality coursing through the world’s veins. Plant onions and leeks; plant flax; wean calves; get milking and dairy work underway; furrowing (birth of piglets). Clean ditches, pruning trees, fixing sheds, hauling timber, and repairing roofs. I hear the fowls sing. Spring Time Sowing. The Pigeon month, which at this point has begun to coo, nest and mate. The rising of the Pleiades in May signals the beginning of the deep ocean sailing season and the fishing season as well as the beginning of the spring harvest. Pregnant spring in all her myriad forms overwhelms our senses with colors, tastes and the pungent rutting smells.
Ecui: (Gemini, the Twins is Eposognatos, the divine twins and the herds that they watch, march together, armed with spears, shields and swords) (May – June): Weed winter corn; remove moss from thatched roofs and repair; sow pulses; capture swarming bees; mark sheep; plant beets, carrots, cabbages, and other garden vegetables. Hunting of the lowing Stag, sheep cleaning and shearing, planting and field maintenance. I am as light as a bird in her bower. The cuckoo. Its call is felt to herald the final arrival of spring.
Eluembia: (Cancer, the Crab is The cauldron that feeds the world, with the fruit of the harvest, boils and seethes, this is party time) (June – July): Wash and shear sheep; shear lambs later in the month; start mowing hay. Mowing hay crop and raking it into piles. And I weed my corn well I-know enough. This is the traditional time of gathering the larvae of the carmine insect (coccon) to make a red dye from the carmine scales. The birch, which flowers during this month, its branches are used as decorations during this time. A canopy is created under which oaths are taken. Midway through this month is the “Time of Giants” (Cauariama) when whicker work giants parade through town and village, and those giants from the year prior are burned in sacrifice and their ashes spread across the fields to bring in a prodigious harvest.
Edorinios: (Leo, the Lion is The Great-Hound of Sucellos, rests beside the cauldron of prosperity, lapping from its contents) (July – August): Keep mowing that hay; harvest flax and hemp; begin harvesting winter corn. Harvest grains, bundle sheaves, weeding gardens. With my scythe my meadow I mow. The elm tree (lemos), which flowers during this month; the flowers pleasantly scent the air, are used to make herbal teas, and attract honeybees.
Cantolegios: (Virgo, the Maiden is Reiia or Riia Matir, The beautiful goddess, she is the Earth-goddess, Mother Earth, mother of the gods, Goddess of the harvest, and of sexuality, love, pregnancy, birth, child bearing, rebirth, child-rearing, she is pregnant and she carries a sheaf of corn) (August – September): Finish harvesting winter grain, begin on spring grain; gather in straw; plant turnips. This is the Falconer’s season. Threshing and winnowing of grains, grinding of grains into flower, The Lord and Lady go a Falconing. And here I shear my corn full low. The time of Bread making, beer making, winnowing, milling, brewing.
The Gaulish planets:
Sun: Sauelios, Sonnos, Sonna, Grannos, Grenna, Sulis
Moon: Luxna, Leucara, Leucaros, Diuona, Gontia
Mars: Cocidios, Roudios
Mercury: Lugos, Luxtos, Boudios
Jupiter: Tectos, Taranis
Venus: Reiia, Riia, Uasnia
Saturn: Melnos, Uosiros, Nucturos.
Uranus (maybe since it was barely visible in the best of conditions): Cenos “the distant one”
The Stars = tSironae
Source: Celticaconlang
Michael.Cassell@portsamerica.com
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