THE TRUTH ABOUT HOLIDAYS AND WHAT MOST DON'T KNOW

The Sequence

1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20+21+22+23+24+25+26+27+28+29+30+31+312+33+34+35+36 = 666. It’s not ‘Evil,’ It’s Math, unless you REALLY hate Math.

To make it simple, Druwayu embraces 3 Main Holidays, recognizes 8 primary Seasonal Festivals, and 12 Monthly Observances. In other words we have three calendar systems interconnected as one so they naturally overlap. These are based directly in much older and much clearer context than many of the things that tend to be presented as authentic that are not as authentic historically as they claim to be, and would have done better to have simply admitted to such being inventions for whatever thing who ever was constructing from their own inspirations.

At first some of it will seem complicated, however, for the sake of simplicity the specifics will be listed. Again, note that it is stated these are inspired by Old calendars. However, they are our own modern adaptations based on these ancient alignments.

Some will wonder how this can be tied or is tied to the concept of the One and Three especially in regards to the example above. One might see it in the center associated with the One and the end points with their openings for the Three and they wouldn't be completely off on that. However, it would be more accurate to state the three ends of the triangle are as the three faces of the One God associated with the three main Holidays and each of the three Goddesses are aligned with the renaming three months and that would also be a reasonable alignment that will be demonstrated.

However, it actually also has the alignment where each month represents the One God and the three subsections called Decans represent the three Goddesses and a decan represents three subsections of 10 and in that sense is 9 x 4 = 36, or if one wishes, alternatively 3 x 12 = 36. Also 10 x 36 = 360 representing the degrees in a circle. Of course because you can also create a sequence of 1-36 as shown above you can arrive at 666 which is often claimed to be an "evil number." This was the basis for associating the concept of the One God as "The Devil" and the Three Goddesses as his brides and as "She-Devils" in later medieval sources which is something often not considered, unrealized or just ignored. This is also the basis for creating things like the so called Magic Square of the Sun.

The basic principle is to take the same 1-36 sequence and arrange each number in a 6x6 grid so that each row equals 666. However, you also have to count the columns which adds another set of 666 because like the row it is a sum of 111. In addition there is the cross angle sections which are also sums of 111 which then is 111 x 2 =222. So when you do all the proper math it comes to a total of 1,554. This discounts the often claimed "evil" associations right off. The example is shows here as proof of this to discount the nonsense.

There is the fact it is also associated not just with the Sun and the hexagon, but also with the concept of the Cube with six sides or faces, the numbers 1, 2, an 3, when added or multiplied together are equal to “6,”and to discount the 666 as "evil" or that the square only totals 666 has been proven wrong clearly, the square was considered “magic” because the sum of any row, column, or diagonal are equal to “111.” Half of this would then equate to 777, yet we have to count it all to have the correct total of 1,554.

Of course then there are the other fictions imposed such as claims the Babylonians had 36 main deities when in reality there were no fixed organized "pantheon" and there were a lot more diverse deities than that but is a common claim of fake conspiracy types. There were a lot of later medieval coins using these "kinds of things" as some sort of special amulets as a result of not understanding the simple mathematical connections and concepts like the ones presented in the example below.

There is really nothing that supernatural about any of it. If you lay an array of numbers in a grid, and the sums of the numbers in each row, each column, and both main diagonals are the same…congratulations! You’ve got yourself a magic square. It does not all have to align just to those associated with "astrology" or its later incarnation as "astronomy." Of course it cannot be denied that on the more basic side of things Magic Squares have fascinated mathematicians for centuries and is used as a tool to teach young students mathematics, geometry and computer science as a fun learning tool.

Such foolish or uninformed ones who think they are "on to something big and bad" also neglect to recognize that the oldest known one is from around 5000 years ago and comes out of China. The pattern was a 3x3 grid of nine squares, each containing one of the numbers between 1 and 9. No matter which way the 3 numbers in each row, each column and both diagonals of the square were added, the sum was always 15. as shown here for example totals 120.

However, such will add some nonsense about that as well. Its just what people do for no good reason at all, and if not produced by a legitimate nut case, than its done by those who wish to make everyone who hold specific beliefs the nut case claims to be seem like they are all insane like that and its not true either. Suffice it to say one should not bother themselves with those types and be prepared to challenge the nonsense if and when such things are brought up. For example, some will even misrepresent the number count of a hexagram saying its equals 666 because it has 6 points, 6 triangles and a 6 sided polygon. That part is true but that doesn't equal 666 obviously.

Some will also use a single triangle point out each point is composed of a section of three lines at 60° angles and then claim you just remove the 0 to get 666. Again, its bullshit because 6 x 3 = 18 and leaving the 0 in represented 180° which is half a circle and when its in a hexagram of two opposite yet interwoven or overlapping triangles it comes to represent the full 360° circle, which then does do down when divided by 10 to 36 and we can return to the 1-36 sequence but there is still nothing inherently "evil" about any of this. Its complete fiction from misrepresentation which is all too common.

If anything its 6 x 3 = 18. However, using the same claim, one has to count things more accurately. For example, a hexagram is composed of 2 opposing triangles each with three outer points and a center point and when merged has 7 points because the two center ones have merged into one. Each of the six outer triangles is 3 points plus their centers so its 4 x 3 which equals 12, and the six sided polygon also has its center to total 7. So it adds up as 7 x 2 = 14 + 12 = 26 / 2 = 13 if you want to add the division. Whoops; no more 666 nonsense there.

Of course the same will also try and link the cubed form of the hexagon and octahedron as "evil" because they can be formed into cube and then try to make that connection with the Tefillin worn by orthodox adult Jews in their weekly morning prayers and the Kaaba in Mecca as the Great Mosque in Saudi Arabia and failing to see it can also be unfolded into such as a Christian Cross and from the cross back into a cube and so forth as shown here in this visual example showing how this works visually. Whoops again.

We can of course take this even further with the interconnected geometry when we present such things in the following examples with all the various expressions of alignments, proportions, ratios and more. Of course few ever make these specific connections either as we also have herein pyramids, the golden ratio, and the irregular triangle of the Hypotenuse and demonstrate here how three types of triangles also combine to form a pentagram though if we overlapped them within the hexagon it could be counted as a decagram and become a filled in colored area in the hexagram when you realize how to see it all.

In any case, we need to return back to the Calendars because its through such measurements and concepts we find much of the natural geometry expressed in many diverse ways which does go back to ancient times and in several varieties. There are a few important factors to note here which must be respected and understood and when one takes the time to do so and really dig deep and realize things like Google and Bing are fine for basic references but its actual libraries where one will find what they need, and requires hard work on their part, if they undertake such, they will arrive at similar conclusions.

What is not a modern adaptation is the actual etymology employed that is used and as stated many times before, many old sources spelled things several different ways even within the same texts. For example, the word city has occurred as sittee, cittee, siddy and so forth even in the same page when quoting a ruler's narration and decrees. This tends to occur the most when a particular ruler is clearly being long winded, repeating themselves and engaging in more of what seems like a recital or stage performance than just getting to the point and the particular writer is getting tired and jots it down rapidly and does not bother trying to correct it later. Because those documents were preserved its clear the corrections were not made.

All the same, many of the commonly claimed meanings of such as the days of the week will be a direct challenge to what is commonly regurgitated. For example, one of the claimed names of a month or about the modern month of April is often placed as Góa claiming the name is "unknown" till you find its other version as Gói which is taken from Hebrew meaning Nation rather than "gentile" which is derived from Latin Latin gentilis ‘of a family or clam' rather than a whole nation. There is nothing racist about that, though many racist Jews have applied it in such a pejorative manner and some even refer to themselves as "just a gentile" blind to the nonsense of placing themselves as inferior to others. Truly idiotic.

Those are the kinds of things people need to pay closer attention to which most don't, even the ones complaining about others "lack of authenticity." Its also one of the reasons why Druwayu was created to strip out ll the nonsense, get to the core of things and rightfully abandon instead of trying to preserve things that are frankly useless and has no real value to building the necessary bonds of commonality and cooperative mutual benevolence and benefits. Otherwise it becomes little more than role playing.

THE THREE HOLIDAYS

The first calendar is the Holiday Calendar. These three Holidays come from measuring only three primary seasons of Winter, Spring and Summer. These aliments are North for Winter in the month of December, Southeast for Spring and April, and finally Southwest for the Summer and August. There are many extremely ancient remains of such seasonal markers with these specific alignments as the major Holiday Seasons. Because such are Holidays a symbol of a Holiday is a Drinking Horn, which also held medicinal brews, though in this case represents festivities. This is the basis for the symbol of three being interlocked and thus tied to the Holidays as Healing Days that renew community bonds and sometimes called Godan’s Horns.

There is also an example of such a pattern in an ancient structure called the Goseck Circle in Germany (which dates to around 4000 to 5000 years old) or alternatively Woodhenge with three openings face the three primary directions. The alignments are the same as this example that adds the segments for the 12 months often associated with hours of light. The subdivisions are 3 x 12 = 36. The association is of course the 360° of a circle.

These sub sets of 3 x 1s are called decans based on the simple math that 360/10 = 36. We can also see that the cross quartered segments also equates to 9 x 4 = 36, and 36/4 = 9. 360° / 4q = 90°. If we apply the concept of 12 x 2 equals 24 hours of a complete day then we arrive at 36 x 2 = 72. This is how ‘72’ is associated with a single day and also ‘720°’ within a circle as another expression of the same basic concepts. Our ancient ancestors were not as ignorant as has often been claimed.

Celebrating Non Druan Holidays and Festivals

There are no such restrictions. The ones presented here are based in historical context from much older sources than is usually mentioned or noted. If for example someone embraces Druwayu but their relatives are Christian, even though we do not believe in Christianity, one can still celebrate with their relatives the various holidays and observances if they choose to do so. There is no reason to be petty over such things. Likewise if someone says something like Merry Christmas, we do not get bent out of shape over it and out of respect have no issues with wishing the same back to the one who says it. That being said, the following are the basics. The following three major holidays are associated with the three faces of the One God. These are remaining months tend to be dominated by the three Goddesses. The full list will be present with the 13 month alignments.

THE ONE GOD: GODAN

WINTER/DECEMBER: WULDER (WIELDER) Associated Winter Storms and with festivity and sharing of resources and gestures of peace and friendship.
SPRING/APRIL: SADAN (SEEDER). Associated Light and Life, with young male animals beginning to fight for dominance and to attract mates of the opposite sex.
SUMMER/AUGUST:: GRIM (GRIME) Associated with hunting and harvesting and the selection of animals to be slaughtered for food resources.

Winter Time
December 21 - January 1

Winter Time or simply Winter, was the original name for what has come to be called Yuletide and Christmas. All the customary decorations of this season from wreathe and garlands, trees and mistletoe are all part of the decor that is common this time of the year festivities. The word Yule itself comes from the variants of ġiell, giul, ġeōl, and jól as well as gelos. It’s of Greek to Latin origin meaning ultimately ‘Yell’ in a sense of cheering, and shouting in. This was later used to push the claim that the purpose of such loud cheers and festivities was to “drown out the noise” of people and animals being “sacrificed” to blood thirsty deities, and a host of other nonsense.

Frithgard simply means Freed Yard as in a reserved ground along the lines of a Sanctuary. It is often used figuratively as a place of peace and also a location not to be disrespected or trespassed. It was also considered a place of protection and those responsible for enforcing such concepts were called a Frithgild, literally Freed Guild but also meaning Freed Gold in gold was to be used as a means of payment for such services maintained.

It should also be noted that in the 10th century Haakon den gode (Hakon the Good) went about eliminating one of two Yule moons (months), and moving the calendar backwards one month from January to December to force Yule to coincide with the Catholic Christmas (on the Julian Calendar Solstice, Dec 25), not the first full moon in January. The Iceland Althingi followed the example as part of establishing the concept and custom. This is of course confirmed as actual history in the Hakon the Good Saga 15 which records the process along with the unfortunate examples of forced conversion by a ruler as tends to be how things are actually done (even now when its alleged such things don't happen like that anymore but we must not do the same since two wrongs never make for a right).

Do Note this fact:

It is false to claim such calendars were themselves "pre-Christian" considering Christian influences came with Rome and conversion processes were already underway when the Empire of Rome established Catholicism in the 3rd-4th centuries CE and already sending our "missionaries" to convert and even bribe financially various rulers from at least the 5th century onward to engage in conversion processes which began to get a foot hold by 7th century CE onward, especially in what is now known as France.

Winter, however, tended to be presented as spanning the four modern months of November through February. It was a time when many clans and tribes would take shelter in ancient forests and mounts and exchange gifts of peace. Its present reduction of time is based on the observation of the Winter Solstice and the advent of the New Year celebrations completed by January 1st. The three colors of Red, Green and White represent the colors of Evergreens, especially when it comes to Holly with its Green Leaves, White Flowers and Red Berries.

The sharp spikes of the leaves represented protection naturally and became a symbol of preservation during winter. Pine also was added to the list of Evergreens, both for its fragrance and as a symbol of the forests nomadic people use to follow caribou herds into as natural warmer locations during said time of year, and the custom of giving gifts were gestures of peace between clans and tribes that often met up in these same locations and shared resources and the foundation of Hospitality customs.

As a time of celebrating such hospitality and friendship, and as a way to renew and strength bonds of peace and alliance, large bonfires as community fires were constructed and around which tents of animal skins were commonly placed and raised. The fires served both as a means to keep people warm and a source of light in the long hours of dark, as well as to discourage and keep dangerous predators away that were known t be more than willing to snatch someone, usually a child, as a meal of opportunity due to the scarcity of game animals that other predators including humans, were directly competing with one another for.

Many old stories and log forgotten ones can be imagined to have been told of such encounters as lessons and warnings as well as stories of pure luck and good fortune of having averted a certain death. Such stories wouldn’t just be about predatory animals either, naturally. We only know this from the very few cultures that survived into modern times that tell such things with far less mythical tones.

Spring Time
April 2 – 14.

JADE RABBIT

The Moon Bunny and Basket

Better known today as Spring Time or Lent by others, the original source and name Lent was Langantide, literally meaning Longer Time. This was based on the simple observation that the hours of light were becoming noticeably longer and the season was becoming warmer. With the increased hours of light and increased warmth, flocks were returning and laying eggs and hatching them, wild animals were waking and spawning offspring everywhere, and more plants and herbs and flowers were beginning to bloom more frequently as everything was more active day and night.

While it’s also true that among the many species, Hares and Rabbit are noticed to be particularly in full overdrive in breeding, it’s not the primary association of Hares and Rabbits during this season, especially those associated with Easter which simply was award meaning Eastern in reference to the Sun rising in the East, and as such the so called Ester Bunny. To note, Hares and Rabbits, though similar, are not the same species. They’re related but different. As with other parts of the world, the image of the Hare or Rabbit with a basket it’s based on the dark parts on the face of the Full moon as shown here.

The Icon of the Triple Hare or Rabbit comes from China. It’s claimed the symbolism isn’t known or cannot be understood. It’s actually a direct representation of the “Jade Rabbit” (the Moon Hare as the maker of the elixir of immortality) and his three primary associations, which are specifically selflessness (compassion), respect (piety), and giving (sacrifice). These are in turn considered qualities of a kind and gentle soul worthy of remembrance within such context and have its basic roots in Taoism from around the 5th century CE.

It was later adopted and applied to all sorts of other trinity or triad based concepts far removed from its original sense and expression after it had been introduced into Europe at some point during the medieval period, but did not exist or have any representations in Europe prior to that. Those that make claims of an “ancient Celtic” origin are full of nonsense. It is true the Moon and the Hare and Rabbit at different times were associated with “Love, Sex, and Birth,” Time such as ‘What Once Was, What Is Now, and What Will Be,’ and more loosely as Past, Present and Future, as well as concepts more or less being Cause, Course and Consequence. So pretty much all the associations of Easter fall in this.

However, it’s not as ‘ancient’ as claimed and certainly not "Celtic." The most common and oldest themes are based on the qualities and primary associations of the Hare and Rabbit which is based on factors of reproduction and the spring. That isn’t even in and of itself a mystery, however, is also true the concept of the egg laying rabbit or hare was a literally invention of humor, not “pre-monotheistic” ideas. What is most likely as previously expressed, its more likely a later import from Buddhism. The three hares as shown occurs at sacred sites from East Asia, the Middle East and the churches of Devon, England (as the "Tinners' Rabbits"), and later historical synagogues in Europe.

Summer Time
August 2 - 14

Boar Skull of the Hunt

The custom of eating Roast Ham

Summer preserves much of its old associations in name and concept; however, there have been more than a few fallacies applied. It is the time associated with the beginning of main hunts and harvests in preparation for the coming Winter Cold. That much is true. The word itself comes from Somar. The four months associated as Summer Time tended to be presented as July through October which is important. This time of August Second -14 based on when the first Full Moon occurred at this time marked the actual seasonal holiday.

The claimed etymology of Samhain and much of the fiction around it that has since been heaped on top of it actually started in the 1800s CE. Samhain said to be pronounced Sowan or Sow-ain doesn’t make a lot of sense in itself. Even the etymology of this is demonstrably false. The Sumer’s End claim was more or less a stretch by claiming it’s a combination of the reseeded samara/summer and fuin meaning end as Samrfuin. While samar/somar/summer is reasonable enough as it is true, along with sunn/sunna/sunnan to name a few is true. However, the word fuin means ‘bake’ in Scottish and Irish Gaelic. Hain is actually just a different way of spelling Heim ‘home.’ Samhain or Sunnheim is Sun’s Home as a reference to the Sun setting in the West.

Sowan or Sow-ain are just forms of Sowin, Soween, Sawen, Sowun and Souin, refers to a Wild Boar called a Swine if male or Sow if female, but also the fact that sow is also linked to the word sowing as in digging ditches and planting seeds in preparations for future crops. The animal also provided a large amount of food and being a dangerous and powerful animal, taking one down in a hunt was considered a high honor and display of skill and strength which common trait of all hunting based cultures which all human cultures originated as factually. Some lore claims the Wild Boar first taught mankind the arts of agriculture by showing us how to plough the Earth before "sowing" seeds by rooting up the ground with his tusks. It’s no accident that sowing and sow and swine all share the same root word. The hunters were often called Alfar/Ulfir/Elves.

The word is also related to Svinfylkar literally meaning “Swine Folks” for a class of warriors akin to Berserkers ‘Bear Shirts’ and the Úlf Héðnar ‘Wolf Heads’ (also meaning wolf hoods, hides, and cloaks). All had to be skilled in a type of martial arts often called glíma, which literally means glimpse or flash which is a reference to causing fear by a glance and a swift sudden and precise strike to disable or end a foe. I also had the express connection to some basic values of self reliance, self control, and the ability to fight both with and without weapons, while also having the will without hesitation to die for their people, especially family or kin. These also now have been added to the “parade of the dead” as the Wild Hunt. Like all the others, humans could turn into these animals and these animals could turn into humans, and it is often linked directly to the concept of travel to the other world, or t aid other souls make the journey.

THE EIGHT FOLD SEASONS

This is based on the ancient association with the life cycles of Caribou which are also commonly called Reindeer. People who depended upon and followed such herds in more nomadic life styles also synchronized their activities throughout the year based on these migration cycles as the established order or “way of things.” Many other such 8-fold calendars are nothing more than erroneous constructs far removed from these actual associations. In any case this is the true link. Aligned names for God and the three Goddesses are included.

Pre-Spring: Pregnant caribou cows inspire the move the herd to leave the ancient pine forests and the shelter of mountains and hills and begin their journey through the mountains to seek the open fields as the glow of spring is seen. Festival of Light in celebration of the first light of the New Year and the association with pregnancy, often having attributes representing cattle and rain rather than snow falling as things become warmed by the Sun. The 1st Goddess Fulla (The name means full)
Spring: Snow melts and flowers grow while the caribou calves are born in the foothills and fields as herders light bonfires to keep predators at bay and to pick off any stragglers they can for their own survival. Festival of Birth in celebration of new life being born renewing the world, and associated with eggs, and baby animals, including infant humans and a time to celebrate motherhood and fatherhood. The 2nd Goddess Bird (Bird comes from the word meaning Birth)
Pre-Summer: A calm period for the caribou and herders, the animals graze on the fresh growth and nurture their young while the herders maintain the fires and seek to keep them burning for the reasons already stated. Festival of Flowers in celebration of youth, when young animals begin to play, flowers are blooming, leaves are full of life and mother animals begin teaching the young how to survive, and is as such often learning customs, and guidance. The 3rd Goddess named Lyfa (The name means Life)
Summer: Under the light of the midnight sun, herders mark their new-born caribou calves, repair tools and tents and tell various stories to pass the time. Festival of Oak in celebration of strength, when the young are able to provide more for themselves, and begin to play fight to become stronger in preparation for establishing their place among the herds. It is often associated with sports, exercise, as well as crafting. God as Hernan (The name means Horned One)
Pre-Fall: Caribou bulls, fat from the summer, are sorted for slaughter to remove the week from the herd and save resources, and a time to make tools and clothing from the hides and bones of the animals, and cast the remains off for scavengers. Festival of Feasting in celebration of food and abundance, and a time of sharing and giving thanks. It is also a time to make tools and clothing from the hides and bones of animals, trade goods, and also has connections to hunting and harvesting. The Goddess as Fida (The name means Feeds)
Fall: Herders fish for food while the caribou bulls battle for breeding rights to mate with the caribou cows in estrus, and also go about seeking other harvested food resources from the trees, plants, fungi and vines. Festival of Love in celebration of selection of mates, consummation of weddings and feasting, fishing, harvesting, hunting, romance, virginity, and weddings as well as mid time harvests. The Goddess as Lofia (The name means Love)
Pre-Winter: The herders now travel out of the frost-covered mountains into marshlands following caribou to where green growth is still available and the people also slaughter the selected and week animals for food. It is also the time the full hunting season begins. Festival of the Hunt in celebration hunting and preparation of the coming cold, storing up food reserves and gathering the last of increasingly scarce resources with return of the dark hours where the Moon becomes the more dominate source of light. It is also often associated with death for obvious reasons as it is the time when the world beings to go into a state of rest and hibernation, and it is also a time to honor the dead, often through recounting their stories and renewing cultural memory. The Goddess as Hunta (The name means Huntress).
Winter: After dividing the caribou herds the families move with the caribou to the pine forests where winter fodder is more accessible and the various clans come together and meet again and reside together for a time till the herds begin to move, and gifts are given to welcome and make and keep peace with other herding clans and to show hospitality to the strangers to insure peace among them when sharing the common camp grounds. Festival of Friendship in celebration of friends, family, neighbors and hospitality to strangers, with the tradition of sharing resources and mutual support in the forms of gifts and an expression of gratitude for mutual provisions, survival and well being, and a time where mutual customs/laws are respected to keep the peace among the diverse people who must share a limited space and limited resources responsibly. God as Eldan (The name means Old One.

All around the world there are many such patterns that are often claimed to be “solar wheels” though this is more or less inaccurate modern assumptions. In any case, these eight fold divisions of cubed and circular forms all are based on the associations with the directions, rotation of the seasons and the associated times of the day in this example.

THE TWELVE FOLD MONTHS

It is no secret that the 12 month calendar had various times in history varied from region to region and cultural source to cultural source, sometimes reducing in number to increasing, and likewise going back to 12 as a solar lunar calendar. It also is not a secret that the original names of these different months were simply named by number as in 1-12. Its later other names were applied arbitrarily. It is also from the observations of how things played out during these cycles that associated symbols as well as various times of work and rest were also outlined as expressing the normal traditional activities.

One can find many such examples of this design and variations thereof throughout the ancient world because people were making the same observations everywhere on the surface of this Earth. Of course it is seldom noted that the symbolism of the World Tree also aligned in design with these associations as a predominately geometric design from ancient concepts, such as this example provides for visual reference and which also have specific connected alignments to the three “Faces of God” and the three Facers of the Three Goddesses” which will be demonstrated and clarified soon enough, yet also explains a lot more about this tree symbol and its form I created to include a lot of symbolism. Many diverse observances also play out through these various monthly expressions. Yet again we have clear symbolism as follows:

Example 1

January: New Year Month

February: Bear Month

March: Swan/Stork Month

April: Snow Crust Month

May: Reindeer Calf Month

June: Acorn Month

July: Hay Month

August: Molt Month

September: Harvest Month

October: Rut Month

November: Hunters Month

December: Yule Month

Example 2

January: Full Wolf Moon

February: Snow Moon and Polar Bear Month

March: Full Crow and Worm Moon

April: Full Pink Salmon and Egg Moon

May: Full Flower Corn Planting Milk Moon

June: Full Strawberry and Rose Moon

July: The Full Thunder and Buck Moon

August: Full Sturgeon and Green Corn Grain Moon

September: Full Corn and Harvest Moon

October: Full Blood, Hunter’s and Second Harvest Moon

November: Full Frosty, Beaver Trapper's Moon

December: The Full Long Night and Bright, Cold Moon

The Twelve Traditional Monthly Labors of Farm Life

January: Feasting and Drinking.

February: Enjoying a warm fire.

March: Pruning trees, or digging holes for seeds.

April: Planting, and picking flowers and herbs.

May: Hawking, and seeking a spouse.

June: Hay harvest, and storage.

July: Wheat harvest and fence mending.

August:Wheat threshing and bread making.

September: Grape harvest and wine making.

October: Purging and Plowing fields, last harvest and sowing seeds.

November: Gathering acorns as food for pigs.

December: Killing and cooking pigs and weaker animals for feasts.

Name of the One and Three for the 12 Months: These are based more in meaning of the names themselves which when properly understood will make more sense. The easiest way to understand how the patterns are distributed it is simply taking a triangle and rotating it on a circular plane divided into 12 sections with God and each of the three Goddesses.

FOR GOD: GODAN

WINTER/DECEMBER: WULDER (WIELDER) Associated Winter Storms and with festivity and sharing of resources and gestures of peace and friendship.
SPRING/APRIL: SADAN (SEEDER). Associated Light and Life, with young male animals beginning to fight for dominance and to attract mates of the opposite sex.
SUMMER/AUGUST:: GRIM (GRIME) Associated with hunting and harvesting and the selection of animals to be slaughtered for food resources.

THE THREE GODDESSES:

WEVA (WEAVER), SPINNA (SPINNER) AND KUTA (CUTTER), All three associated with crafting tools, clothes, and mending such as tents used for temporary shelters, making of nets to capture fish and other animals, as well as measuring the conditions of life for all things.

FOR GODDESS 1: WEVA (THE WEAVER)

JANUARY: LITA (LIGHTS) Associated with the first glow of the Sun.
MAY: BLOMA (BLOOMS) Associated with the abundances of flowers.
SEPTEMBER: GIFA (GIVER) Associated with the bounty of the harvests.

FOR GODDESS 2: SPINNA (THE SPINNER)

FEBRUARY: FULLA (FULLNESS) Associated with pregnant caribou and animals.
JUNE: GRANI (GRAIN/GREENS) Associated with wild crops growing.
OCTOBER: HELIA (HEALER) Associated with medicinal herbs and also shelters.

FOR GODDESS 3: KUTTA (THE CUTTER)

MARCH: BRYD (BRIDE) Associated with springtime abundance.
JULY: RUNA (RED) Associated with the reddening of berries and fruits.
NOVEMBER:: SKADI (SHADY) Associated with last light of the Sun.

Correct Source and Meaning for the Seven Days of the Week

It is already well known that most of the given names stem from Latin sources. The fiction is the claim of the associations with Scandinavian sources that do not equate which has resulted is fraudulent inventions that have simply been repeated without validation and where the current names for them actually come from. Despite all this, before hand, as with the 12 months that were only named originally based on the words for each number 1-2, the same was true for each day as 1-7. The following will clarify the facts and while many will oppose this they are factual.

Sunday is the Seventh Day: Sun is from Sunn – Plural Sunn-an.

Monday is the First Day: Moon is from Monn –Plural Monn-an

Tuesday is the Second Day: Tues is from Tu-an (Twain) - singular Tu mean Two.

Wednesday is the Third Day: Wednes is also Witnas meaning Witness.

Thursday is the Fourth Day: Thurs originally was Thurstan meaning Thirsts/Dry/Parched

Friday is the Fifth Day: Fri simply means Free as in such as Frith meaning Freed or Frithdom for freedom. It’s not ‘Freya-day or Freyr-day.”

Saturday is the Sixth Day: Sadan from Sad = Seeding, also Sadar = Sower (falsely linked to the word Shatan which becomes “Satan” later on).

So when one digs this deep you can find completely different contexts were actually being applied for other reasons that were other “motives.” While direct search of the names and where they come from will repeat the same nonsense of assumption and regurgitation, one can find the factual meaning and context by looking up the ones given. As for some other such related words when one searches such out:

Day = Dag. Week = Wik/Wic. Night = Naht. Sun Rise = Sunn Risan (Risen and Rising). Sun Set = Sunn Sidan (Sits and Seats). Times = Timan. Tide = Tidan (Hours). Minutes = Huil (While = Moment). Seconds = Luttil Huil (Little While = smaller moment). Month = Monath. Year =Iar.

Then there are:

Heavan = Heave – on (lifted up as in the top of a hill, mountain, etc.). Earth = Aerd/Urd (akin to -gard = yard). Hell = Hel (akin to Hall from Hal, and Heal from Heli, and also Holy from Holi and Hole from Hol). North = Nord, Ast = East, South = Suth, and West = Uast. Sky = Scio, Sea = Seo, Land = Lond. Cloud = Clud (originally clod as a lump of rock and dirt), replacing wolkan = walks/moves), Ice =Is, Rain = Regan. Snow = Sno. Light = Liht. Dark = Dirk, Shadow =Skado (It also was the word for shade as skad), Bright = Berht (also for birth and bird from burd), Shine = Skin, Gleam = Glim/Glam, Tree = Tri (also a word for three, and also triu and trien meaning trees and threes). Root = Rot (Also as Rod = Rood). Wod = Wood, plural Wodu and Wodan means Wooden. Wido and Widu is the source of Widow.

Most do not realize that the word blessing comes from blod-sian literally a combination of blood and sign, and replaced Latin and Greek terms meaning benefit and praise and Hebrew words meaning bow down and kneel in a gesture of submission. Blod also became blot being used as a term for "covering in blood." Its gross but its true.

Counting was also limited:

An = One, Tuan = Two, Dri = Three, Fiyur = Four, Fyf = Five, Seks = Six, Syfen = Seven, Aht = Eight, Nyun = Nine, Tian = Ten, Anlyfan = Eleven, Tualyf = Twelve, Dritian = Thirteen, Fiyurtian = Fourteen, Fyftian = Fifteen, Sekstian = Sixteen, Syfentian = Seventeen, Ahttian = Eighteen, Nyuntian = Nineteen, and then the next sets. Tuan-tig = Twenty. Hunterod = Hundred, Thusand = Thousand.

After this there are different sources for million, billion, and trillion and so on, though this also varies from region to region and country to country, even with English specific or related languages. This simply demonstrates such things created by necessity when such things are needed which also expresses the dynamics of life and language and culture, for better or worse. One can see already a lot of things that do not mean what most have been told.

World Tree Symbols like this one also tend to be commonly linked to all of these traditional alignments and concepts. The figure 8 or Infinity serpent place upon a tree like symbol is far less mysterious than is also often claimed.

The Figure 8 Snake represents the analemma of the sun and where the snake is placed as biting its own tail, it represents the transition point or "place of the crossing" of the Sun in this Infinity loop at the Spring and Fall Equinoxes.

The Tree itself combines concepts associated with both the 8 Seasons and 12 months and may also at times include the 3 holidays if they are recognized by a particular any culture.

Sometimes the three Goddesses as Triads are presented by the bottom, middle and top nodes while the three aspect of God as Creator, Maintainer and Destroyer is associated with the three segments, all being a triadic division of Light with the top part, Twilight with the middle, and Dark with the bottom. This is often obscured by sources that speak of such things with regurgitated jargon of Upper World, Middle World, and Underworld or the even further distracting context of Heave Above, Earth in the Middle and Hell Below.

The Tree itself simply becomes the Cosmic Axis. Its simply the cosmological concept of the Earth as the World Tree when all things are said and done. Sometimes the Snake is also given Seven Heads to represent the Sun, Moon and the 5 main easily visible Planets since ancient times, though these sometimes were replaced instead with seven horns, and may be given wings to make the connection with the Sky.

This is based on a real artifact: Rune forms were also used to create calendars where the only important factor was their different shapes for distinction and not n associated meaning. For example, this pattern is based on an actual historic design. The primary segmentation of a circle into 7 parts clearly has the context of the 7 days of a full week. In the secondary ring we start with the top ‘rune’ it with three more before the next segment begins. 7 x 4 then gives us the count of 28 days representing a true lunar month. We simply multiply that by 13 to get a 364 day year and then add a day.

This Runic calendar, also referred to as a Rune almanac, served as a perpetual timekeeping tool throughout Northern Europe until the 19th century. Structured with lines of symbols, it marked significant astronomical events and celebrations, including solstices, equinoxes, and Christian holidays. These symbols were often etched onto parchment or carved into various materials such as wood, bone, or horn.

On one line, 52 weeks of 7 days (a week) were laid out using 52 weeks as a repetition of the first seven runes as shown in the above examples. On another line, many of the days were marked with one of 19 symbols representing the 19 year long Metonic Cycle, also at times called a "golden number." In early calendars, each of the 19 years in the cycle was represented by a rune; the first 16 were the 16 runes of the so called Younger Futhark, plus t3 special runes called the 3 Golden Numbers improvised for the remaining 3 years as specialized symbols. The new moon would fall on that day during that year of the cycle. So again its not really all that complicated.

Supplementary insights are provided through ‘runstavs’ and ‘primstavs.’ ‘Runstavs’ served as runic sticks used in divination practices, while ‘primstavs’ were Norwegian wooden calendar sticks primarily employed for timekeeping and weather prediction. A primstav specifically is the ancient calendar stick. These were engraved with images instead of runes. The images depicted the different non-moving/fixed religious holidays. The oldest primstav still in existence is from 1457 CE. The example of a Runestav using a 13 month cycle is represented below.

Now, with all that said and done for clarification, this set of "Druish Script," sometimes called Warlock Runes, was created specifically for the Druish Culture and tradition, originally formulated in the 1990s, even before the chosen name some two decades later had been finalized. To Simply follow the patter, one starts with the Letter A with its corresponding symbol around the circular pattern and in which one can count both sets in the ring form to better track which one represents what. Naturally it won't be compatible with many other systems or concepts and that is because it was intentional and not meant to be as an FYI.

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