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Question about months

DrPizza

DrPizza

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sept - 7
oct - 8
octopus, octagon, etc.

Why is October the 10th rather than 8th month?

- which months were added to the 10 month calendar, were they July and August?
I've read a bunch of sources that said Caesar moved the start of the year back from March to January.

And other sources said 2 months were added in.

And other sources said July and August were added (I do know that at the very least, days were added to July and August.)

However, if March was the 1st month and July wasn't added in, then October wouldn't have been the 8th month.

Thus, if July and August were added, January had to have been the 1st month prior to this change.

If July and August weren't the two months added in, which two months WERE added in? The change occurred when the calendar went from 10 to 12 months.

Thanks.
 
Not sure, I'd have to dig. I do know the roman calendar began with march, so that explains the sept,oct,non,dec pattern. Also janus was the god of doors which January was named after. July I think was for Julius, and August for Augstus. So my guess is June and Feburary. particlarly since feb has a strange number of days to compensate on the updated calendar. My second guess is Jan and Feb. Since June is named after godess Juno.

Leave it to a Titan to know greek and roman myths 🙂
 
The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius "March", Aprilis "April", Maius "May", Junius "June", Quintilis "July", Sextilis "August", September "September", October "October", November "November", December "December", and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January" and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius to Januarius and changed the number of days in several months to be odd, a lucky number. After Februarius there was occasionally an additional month of Intercalaris "intercalendar". This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number of days in many months and removing Intercalaris.

http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html
 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius "March", Aprilis "April", Maius "May", Junius "June", Quintilis "July", Sextilis "August", September "September", October "October", November "November", December "December", and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January" and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius to Januarius and changed the number of days in several months to be odd, a lucky number. After Februarius there was occasionally an additional month of Intercalaris "intercalendar". This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number of days in many months and removing Intercalaris.

http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html
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I scare myself sometimes.
 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius "March", Aprilis "April", Maius "May", Junius "June", Quintilis "July", Sextilis "August", September "September", October "October", November "November", December "December", and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January" and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius to Januarius and changed the number of days in several months to be odd, a lucky number. After Februarius there was occasionally an additional month of Intercalaris "intercalendar". This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number of days in many months and removing Intercalaris.

http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html
Click to expand...

You rock. Thanks.
 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
The original Roman year had 10 named months Martius "March", Aprilis "April", Maius "May", Junius "June", Quintilis "July", Sextilis "August", September "September", October "October", November "November", December "December", and probably two unnamed months in the dead of winter when not much happened in agriculture. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius, the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January" and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius to Januarius and changed the number of days in several months to be odd, a lucky number. After Februarius there was occasionally an additional month of Intercalaris "intercalendar". This is the origin of the leap-year day being in February. In 46 BC, Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar (hence the Julian calendar) changing the number of days in many months and removing Intercalaris.

http://www.crowl.org/Lawrence/time/months.html
Click to expand...

wow. thanks for that info!
 
Now what about the days of the week?

Sunday - gets its name from Sunna, or Sunne the Germanic sun goddess
Monday - gets its name from Mani (Old English Mona), the Germanic Moon god.
Tuesday - from the Nordic god Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu)
Wednsday - from the Old English Wodnesdæg meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden
Thursday - Thor, the Norse god of thunder
Friday - Frige, the Norse god of beauty
Saturday - named after the Roman god of time Saturn


So remember when you say TGIF you are in a way paying homage to theNorse god of beauty.
 
Originally posted by: Titan
Now what about the days of the week?

Sunday - gets its name from Sunna, or Sunne the Germanic sun goddess
Monday - gets its name from Mani (Old English Mona), the Germanic Moon god.
Tuesday - from the Nordic god Tyr (in Old English, Tiw, Tew or Tiu)
Wednsday - from the Old English Wodnesdæg meaning the day of the Germanic god Woden
Thursday - Thor, the Norse god of thunder
Friday - Frige, the Norse god of beauty
Saturday - named after the Roman god of time Saturn


So remember when you say TGIF you are in a way paying homage to theNorse god of beauty.
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Friday is a beautiful thing.
 
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