Further NOTES for the Celtic Tree Calendar

The Celtic culture and epistemology has innumerable synchronistic parallels with Australian Aboriginal counterparts, the first civilisation on Earth from which all others are derived. One of the ‘clues’ is the consonant ‘Ng’ found in Celtic language (theirs was orally transmitted with the aid of iconography, song and dance, just as Aboriginal culture was, and required the same whole-brain ‘pattern-thinking’ as do all non-written indigenous cultures) – it is said that it was pronounced ‘Ny’ but I doubt that – if it was, why didn’t they write it Ny? I believe it was pronounced the same as Aborigines do, as in si’NG’ing, and is a relic from the archetype Aboriginal language, which was obviously first as it came tens of thousands of years before any other culture! It is more or less the same as Aboriginal calendars (many on the internet now…) being a seasonal calendar describing the flowering and harvesting times for all the plants and animals they utilised in their daily activities. Ancient Cultures in both northern and southern hemispheres are currently experiencing revivals of their lost knowledge streams.  Aboriginal cultures are the most advanced and highly evolved of all.

So the Tree Calendar, originally conceived by the Druids as a secret/sacred language, evolved into a teaching aid for all the community – if you delve in more deeply, you can uncover an entire encyclopaedia and epistemology for the life-cycles and uses (practical, medicinal and ceremonial) of all the plants and animals they shared their world with … exactly the same as Aboriginal teachings.  The Tree-cycle encompasses virtually all the folk-lore, every aspect of the culture that children would need to know to survive in their world.  By studying it they would learn about every plant in their local habitat and more specifically, how to manage the forests so they keep all the useful species healthy and productive. One ‘poem’ (song cycle) explained all the aspects of the wood from various trees, how to season the logs, how to utilise for carving, for heating purposes etc.

Each month of 28 days (four sever-day weeks) was attributed a consonant and corresponding tree, animal and mineral  - the four ‘stations’ of the year, the Solstices and Equinoxes plus the Day of Liberation, made up the five vowels.