CANTLOS
Songs
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First QuarterApril 13, 2008 At zenith at sunset |
Full MoonApril 20, 2008 Eastern horizon |
Last QuarterApril 28, 2008 At nadir at sunset |
New MoonMay 5, 2008 Western horizon |
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| SAM | DUM | RIUR | ANAG | OGR | CUT | GIAM | SEMI | EQU | ELEM | AED | CANT | |
The twelfth and final month of the Celtic year is the sixth and last month of the Celtic winter and the last month of the year. Etymology reveals that its name derives from the Common Celtic word *cantla-, 'song, to sing'. It has the meaning of "Month of Song": Diodorus tells us of the 'Hyperborean priests of Apollo' in the first century BC. He tells us that in the Land beyond the North Wind (Hyperborea, usually inferred to mean Britain), the sun god Apollo (Celtic Belinos) visited the Island and celebrated his achievements, "from the vernal equinox until the rising of the Pleiades", the time contained by the lunation of Cantlos. During this month the return of the summer constellations begins, such that the following month, the first of the following year, Tarvos once again rises with the sun. The songs of birds herald the new year, as does the anticipation of Beltaine. Thus concludes the thirteen month first year of the second cycle of the current saeculum. The following year is of twelve months - the next year with an extra 'Ciallos' month is year three where the intercalary month is met prior to the second half of the year. Dafydd ap Gwilym in the mid fourteenth century sang a song for the coming summer, an epitome of the month of Cantlos: 'Summer was given to grow leaves on trees, and turn them the fairest green. Who does not laugh when it's summer, the paradise to which I sing?
Etymology
W. can sing
W. canu,
EW. cant - celebrate in song
I. canu - song
I. canaim W. cana - sing
OI. canim - sing
Celtic *cantla- to sing
Latin cano, sing
I. caint - speech
"The blackbird sings a loud strain,
To him the live wood is a heritage"
- Song of Summer - Kuno Meyer, Four Old-Irish Songs
This month in the Southern Hemisphere
In Australia and the Southern Lands the seasons are offset by half a year and so the month of Cantlos completes the summer half of the year. As in the Gregorian Calendar, in the Southern Hemisphere all month names retain their Northern attributes. The lunation of Southern Cantlos may be named 'the Cutios moon' to express the seasonality of the Celtic calendar. The Southern Celtic Year 2007 explores the southern hemisphere perspective.
503BC: CELTIC DAWN
In 503BC, the planet Saturn appeared in Taurus marking the start of a Celtic 30 year cycle as described by Plutarch.
Caer Australis presents the hypothesis that this was the first 'Celtic Calendar Year', at the dawn of the La Tène Period.
Shown above (using Cybersky) is the European dawn of April 502BC, Cantlos.
The Celtic Calendar - Introductory Sections
| Celtic Calendar 2007 | The Southern Seasons Celtic Calendar 2007 | Celtic Calendar Forum |
Ciallos | Samon | Duman | Riuros | Anagantios | Ogronnos | Cutios || Giammon | Semiuisonna | Equos | Elembiuos | Aedrini | Cantlos
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Celtic Year 2007
Introduction Ciallos Samon Duman Riuros Anagantios Ogronnos Cutios Giammon Semiuisonna Equos Elembiuos Aedrini CantlosCeltic Year 2008
Enter Here for 2008Southern Seasons Celtic Calendar 2007 The Southern Seasons Celtic Fire Feasts 2002-2006 Cycle Saturn Return 2002 Samhain is not the Celtic New Year