Gaelic Birth-wood

[bennmorland]

EDIT: Check the comments for some fact-checking. But continue to read behind the cut if you'd like a little "work of poetic imagination."

The ancient Celts followed a lunar calendar, and as such divided the year into thirteen parts. Each of these parts was given a wood, and so when a youngster was born, the child would be made a gift made of their

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Uh, no, not at all.

[caitriona_nnc]

Sorry, but this is fiction.

Robert Graves made up the Tree Calendar in his "work of poetic imagination", The White Goddess. It is not Celtic, and certainly not Gaelic.

Though the twenty-five (not thirteen) ogham letters are assigned to trees and plants in some of the ogham lists, and though some trees are connected to some of the seasonal festival celebrations due to flowering or fruiting at that time, they were never arranged in a linear calendar.

Yes, many occult and newage authors repeat this fiction, ad nauseum, but it is simply not an authentic part of Gaelic culture.

Re: Uh, no, not at all.

[bennmorland]

Thank you for telling me that. I'll rescind it right away.