The Sequani Calendar is an interpretation of an ancient Celtic calendar found in Coligny, France, This calendar is brought up to date so that it is relevant and useful for people today.

The cover of the Sequani Calendar

It is an alternative to using our current calendar, yet includes today's dates and days. The Sequani Calendar offers a daily account of the lunar, solar and stellar activities that is easy to follow. It enhances the knowledge of the night sky through its use of mythology.

The PRINNI/PRINI's, on the calendar are related to the moon, but are distinctly different from the moon. The PRINNI/PRINI's refer to the fifteen brightest stars in the Northern Hemisphere and charts these stars rising relevant to the months. Using these stars rising generally at eight P.M. instead of twilight, we were able to capture the old sky lore from the Greek star names. We correlated this sky lore with Celtic mythology. A full account of this is found in our book The Myth of the Year: Returning to the Origin of the Druid Calendar,
(University Press of America, 2003.).

The months begin on the first quarter moon, so that the first half of the month is in the light of the moon. The second half of the month is in the dark of the moon. We found out that these ancients knew the evening when the ecliptic, due East/West, moved North and South heralding the coming spring called BRIG on the calendar.

This calendar is a five year calendar. When we expanded it to nineteen years, we found the exact number of nights 6585, which is very close to the Saros cycle, at the end of year three and 6939 nights, very close to the Metonic cycle, at the end of year four. Then we found out that we were not the first ones to do this. Alban Wall had done this count before us. We felt we had a nineteen year calendar for sure. We have successfully translated six years of the calendar so far, from 2001 to 2007.

INTERCALARY MONTHS

The balain, or Druid's Egg. Click link for more information.

The intercalary months also revealed themselves to us. For a month every two and a half years, you just get up when the moon rises. Through this process, you can see all the stars as they are marked on the calendar throughout the year. We have been most surprised when the "T" marks, +// /+/ //+, on the calendar revealed themselves to us. We will leave this for your surprise also.

We would like to acknowledge Martin Doutre for the work he has done on the frame of the Coligny Calendar which he believes has all of the standard ancient measurements. See this link.

The Sequani Calendar celebrates the goddesses and gods as forces of the seasons in their sky lore. We continue our research into this amazing calendar and publish it every year. Visit our web site http://www.sequanicalendar.com/