Sod Ha-Ibbur

ט"ז באייר תשס"ז

The Celtic (Coligny) calendar, like the Jewish calendar, though primarily lunar-based, intercalates both lunar and solar time into its calculations. Unlike the civil calendar which is a solar-based calendar and has 12 months, the two calendars which calculate time by both the lunar and solar cycles each have 13 months. The Celtic model adds an intercalary month every 2.5-3 years. The Hebrew model adds an intercalary month 7 times every 19 years, which calculates out to every 2.9 years.

In other words, both the Celtic and Jewish calendars operate on a 19-year cycle; both intercalate solar time into the basically lunar calendar. Both of these lunar-solar calendars are ancient.

The New Year of the world, also unlike the civil calendar, is another feature shared between the Celtic and Jewish methods of timekeeping. Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, both occur in autumn as opposed to in winter. The civil dates of both (astronomical) Samhain and Rosh Hashanah vary year to year.

The new day begins at sundown in both Keltoi and Jewish timekeeping.

Consequently, the data suggest that there is advanced knowledge (sod ha-ibbur) embedded within these two particularly congruous ancient methods of timekeeping. This knowledge was characteristic of both the ancient Celts and the ancient Hebrews.

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