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I. Winter Solstice – Mourning Night and Festival of Sakor; observance of the longest night and celebration of the lengthening of days to come.

1. Sarisin Calving.

2. Dostin Hedges and ditches seen to. Peas and beans sown for cattle food.

3. Klesin Sowing of oats, wheat, barley (for malting), rye. Beginning of fishing season. Open water sailing resumes.

II. Vernal Equinox – Festival of the Flowers in Mycena. Preparation for planting, celebration of fertility.

4. Lithion Butter and cheese making (sheep’s milk pref.) Hemp and flax sown.

5. Nythin Fallow ground ploughed.

6. Gorathin Corn weeded. Sheep washed and sheared.

III. Summer Solstice

7. Shemin Beginning of the month – hay mowing. End of the month and into Lenthin – grain harvest in full swing.

8. Lenthin Grain harvest.

9. Rhythin Harvest brought in. Fields plowed and planted with winter wheat or rye.

IV. Harvest Home – finish of harvest, time of thankfulness.

10. Erasin Pigs turned out into the woods to forage for acorns and beechnuts.

11. Kemmin More plowing for spring. Oxen and other meat animals slaughtered and cured. End of the fishing season. Storms make open water sailing dangerous.

12. Cinrin Indoor work, including threshing.

^* A 360-day year with four 3-day seasonal festivals.