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Calendrier Gaelique Celte Polaire Gaelic Celtic Polar ERIC BASILLAIS GAL CALENDRIER GAELIQUE CELTE POLAIRE GAELIC CELTIC POLAR CALENDAR VOLUME 9 ERIC BASILLAIS LIVRES GRATUITS FREE-BOOKS EDITEUR GAL ERIC BASILLAIS 0,8 DRUMAN 2077 25 De0 ...NOËL (Chrismas), rise of the Boreal Sun after the Winter Solstice. The present GAL [2020-2080] Calendar covers 60 years, i.e. 2 Gal centuries of 30 years each, or else 12 Gaul lustres of 5 years. On December 25th 2019, 00h00 GMT it's 0/2020 in this new Gal Calendar! I dedicate it to my Celtic friends, Frances Mac Farlane (''This, I'll defend''), Angela Gough, & Renaud, a roofer-tinman who gave me several modillons' photos. To access to the CONCLUSION, go straight to day 365, at the end of the GAL Calendar. 1,1 1,4 1,7 RIUROS DRU RIU 2058 2039 2020 26 De1 Traditionnally, Midnight, the New Moon and the Winter Solstice mark the beginnings of their respective cycles. Ancient Gauls used Twilight, the First Quarter and Autumn, probably because of a late non traditional astronomical progress (retrograde Saturn in Taurus)1. 2,6 2,9 DRU DRU 2066 2047 27 De2 Day names are replaced by numbers : NOËL / Chrismas is 0 and years end on 364, unless they are dividable by 100 but not by 400 (leap years), in which cases, they end on 365. Between 2020 and 2080 no year is dividable by 100. So leap years are those dividable by 4, like 2020, 2024... and 2080. 3,2 RIU 2028 28 De3 Each day, from 0 to 365, from 2020 to 2080, are given New Moons (unity in days), calculated with J. Meeus's formula, with a maximum uncertainty of 0,6 day (14 h, 24 1 http://www.david-romeuf.fr/Archeologie/CalendrierGaulois/SyntheseRestitutionsCalendrierGaulois.html GAL min). Any larger inaccuracy would come from Eric Basillais... All translations are from Eric Basillais too... 4,1 4,4 4,7 DRU RIU DRU 2074 2055 2036 29 De4 In the garden, for purgings etc... one relies on big tides (sizygies) : New Moon (Black) & Full Moon (White). 5,6 RIU 2025 30 De5 To a New Moon, add +7,4 days to know the First Quarter, +14,8 for the Full Moon, and +22,1 for the Last Quarter. If the result is over 364 days, discount :-364. On leap years, if the result surpass 365, discount -365. 6,1 6,4 RIU DRU 2063 2044 31 De6 Day numbers ease calculus, erase jewish artificial weeks and unreal roman solar months, all non Celtic. Symbols : Solstices : ☼ , ❄. Equinoxes : ♥ , ♣ 7,2 7,6 7,9 RIU DRU RIU 2033 2071 2052 01 Jan7 The Irish Celts modulate time in Cuicthi (= 5 days) : the years of 365 days (= 73 x 5) accounts for exactly 73 Cuicthis ; it's then possible to institute a day off every 5 days, instead of 7, the simplest being on all multiple of 5 (day numbers ending by 0 or 5).... ERIC BASILLAIS 8,7 DRU 2041 02 Jan8 ...That means 73 days off, plus religious or seasonal Celtic feasts, and 3 big tides for every sizygy, roughly separated by 15 days (=3 x 5), or 3 Cuicthis. 9,1 9,1 9,4 RIU DRU RIU 2022 2079 2060 03 Jan9 In the Polar Tradition, the 12 first days of a new year are used to guess the qualities of the next 12 lunar months. 10,3 10,6 DRU RIU 2049 2030 04 Jan10 Beginning with NOËL (Chrismas), the 12 ordinary Celtic lunar months of the ancient Coligny's Calendar usually are : RIUROS ANAGANTIO OGRON CUTIOS GIAMON SIMIVIS EQUOS ELEMBAN AEDRINI CANTLOS SAMON DUMAN. Those months are written once, then abbreviated. I shall write the ancient GAUL names in capital letter, and tiny, those medieval Celtic languages such as Irish, Welsh, Breton, Cormic etc... 11 11,8 RIU RIU 2068 2057 05 Jan11 The most frequent lunar month around Chrismas is RIUROS (= Frost). Three nights before the RIUROS' Full Moon, occurs the Gal Feast, BRIGIOMU. 12,1 12,5 RIU DRU 2038 2076 06 Jan12 GAL The unique panCeltic Goddess has many names : BRIG, Brigh, Brigit. Pun of words : BO RIG = Queen of Cows. Boann, Boand, Boinne : Bo+Ann : Shining Cow. Bo+Ande : Big Cow. Bo+Vinda = White Cow. Bo + Ana : the Cow Ana. The Boinne is the Big White Shining Cow, perhaps ''Ursa Major'', likely the Milky Way, near the North Pole. 13,3 13,6 13,9 RIU DRU RIU 2065 2046 2027 07 Jan13 On RIUROS, BRIGIOMU, spells to BRIG, BO RIG, the Queen of Cows, Big White Shining Cow, Milky Way, to grant abundance of Milk and fertility of Cows, the traditional Celtic economical basis... 14,8 RIU 2073 08 Jan14 The western GAL world, used to spread from Portugal and Spain (Galicia, Tajo, Guadalquivir ~Tartessos, Catalunia) to Ireland, (Great) Britain and the mouth of the Baltic sea (Denmark), through the Gaul (France), the Belgian Gaul, and the Rhine, up to the swiss, italian, austrian, & czech Alps... 15,1 15,4 RIU RIU 2054 2035 09 Jan15 ...The eastern GAL world was spotted on the Danube and, around the Black sea, in Dacia (Rumania) and Galatia (Turkey). Eventually, let's recall the GAL toponimy of the Golan & Golgotha mounts, and the Jordan & Litani rivers, i.e. the greater GAL-ilee. 16,7 RIU 2062 10 Jan16 ERIC BASILLAIS Unless special cases, all quotes are given by 2 french specialists of Celtism, both disciples of Dumézil : Christian Guyonvarc'h & Françoise Le Roux2. The references of Eric Basillais, written like : [Cf. GAL, Vol.9] can be accessed at the Calendar's end3. 17 17,3 RIU RIU 2043 2024 11 Jan17 The GAL Calendar crisscrosses 4 solar cosmic feasts with 4 lunar religious feasts, forming an 8 rays wheel, famous in the Celtic & Roman Arts : Winter Solstice (Chrismas)-BRIGIOMU, (Candlemas)-OCIOMU-Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltain, Summer Solstice, Lugnasad-(Assumption), Autumn Equinox, & (Halloween-AllSaints- AllSouls)-TRINOXSAMONI-Samain. 18,2 18,5 18,8 RIU RIU RIU 2070 2051 2032 12 Jan18 The 4 irish Celtic quarter feasts, on February 1st, May 1st, August 1st & November 1st, form a fix cross in the solar Christian calendar. But the Gal Calendar of Coligny testifies that continental ancient Celtic feasts, TRINOXSAMONI-Samain, BRIGIOMU and OCIOMU-Imbolc depended on the lunar calendar. 19,7 19,7 RIU RIU 2021 2078 13 Jan19 The Celtic year splits into 2 cosmic semesters : the great dark season, from Samain to Beltain ; and the great clear season, from Beltain to Samain : '' In that sea, there is an island of golden sand ; and there is another sea, which rises from Beltain to Samain and comes from Samain down to Beltain ; meaning half of the year to increase and half of 2 : Christian Guyonvarc'h & Françoise Le Roux : Les Druides. Ed°s Ouest-France (Mai 1986) 3 Besides, we thank the following authors, without whom we would never had discovered anything about Celtism and the Polar Tradition of subpolar Races, the Red & the White (fully : Aryans, Basques, Kartvalians, Uralians) : Christian Guyonvarc'h & Françoise Le Roux, Marcelle Delpastre (about Limousin), Albert Bayet, Salomon Reinach, Jean-Claude Lozac'hmeur, André Leroi-Gourhand, George Dumézil, Gilles Le Hello, Bernard Dedet, Camille Jullian, Alla Kravchenko, and the anonymous crowd of archeologists, discoverers of priceless art pieces, and peasants who transmited tales... GAL the year to decrease. The animals of that sea and whales, yell as long as it rises and shut up as long as it comes down''. 20 20,3 RIU RIU 2059 2040 14 Jan20 Every 30 months (2,5 years), an extra month plugs the Sun-Moon's delay. This month is called, BANTARAN in Spring, QUIMON in Autumn. 21,2 21,6 21,9 RIU RIU RIU 2029 2067 2048 15 Jan21 The [2020-2080] span harbours, 95 % sure, the Critical Time, accumulation point of the global technosphere crises : then, antinatural chimeras and Satanism (spiritual negation and inversion), will end up in a technical & demographic collapse. This Celtic Calendar enlightens the Polar Tradition, the most ancient european, siberian & amerindian tradition in order to brace for that test. 22,7 RIU 2037 16 Jan22 Celtism displays a religious moral order with a Heaven, the Sid (=Perfect), and a Hell, Camlann, Plain of the False and the Crooked (=Camm). Contrary to a misinterpretation spread by Greeks, namely Pythagoras, souls don't reincarnate in the Cosmos, but go to the Sid or Cammlann. 23,1 23,4 RIU RIU 2075 2056 17 Jan23 Diogene Laërte (Vies et opinions de philosophes illustres, Prooem., I) attributes 3 moral precepts to Druids & Gymnosophists, namely the Yogis of India : ''Honor the gods, don't act wrong, train to be brave''. ERIC BASILLAIS 24,2 24,5 24,9 RIU RIU RIU 2045 2026 2064 18 Jan24 Long ago considered with scepticism, the comparison between Celtism and Indian Yoga, is confirmed by Mythology [Cf. DRVID, Vol. 4], Archeology and the extensions of the ancient Celto-Germanic Art into the Roman & Viking Arts. Far from being an exception, it's a circumpolar rule, in Europe, Siberia & America [Cf. PALEO YOGA, Vol. 2]... 25,8 ANAGANTIO 2053 19 Jan25 ...For example, Yoga postures (asanas) are encountered around -200 at the sanctuaries of Entremont and Roquepertuse (~Aix-en-Provence, Marseilles, France), associated with a skull cult spreading up to Catalunia (Spain). In France, Belgium and at Gundestrup (Denmark, ~ +200), are found sat gods with crossed legs, sometimes tricephals, with torks and serpents (Cf. Photos4)... 26,1 26,5 RIU RIU 2034 2072 20 Jan26 After the Greeks & Cesar, the Gal warriors did not fear death, for the Druids taught them the immortality of the soul, excited their braveness, promising a post-life in the Sid.
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