Brit-Am Research Sources (25 December, 2014, 3 Tevet, 5775)
Contents:
1. Mark Williams:The Pagan Anglo-Saxons used a Lunar-Solar Calendar
2. The Hebrew Origin of the English Word "Holy"
3. Mark Williams : King Alfred and The Torah
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1. Mark Williams:The Pagan Anglo-Saxons used a Lunar-Solar Calendar
Shalom Yair
And, even more surprisingly, they also added an extra month to the year
every so often
The early Anglo-Saxons divided the year into twelve lunar months
(literally 'moons'), but as a lunar cycle is about 29.5 days, this
would result in a 354 day year. After two or three 12 month years, the
lunar cycle and the solar cycle (of 365 days) would be off by what
amounted to a little more or less than a month. Every so often, the
early Anglo-Saxons would have a 13 month year to get the lunar and
solar cycles back into alignment. They inserted the extra month into
the summer sailing season, called litha, which normally covered two
months roughly corresponding to June and July. Thus, the 13 month year
was called Thrilithi (three lithas).
Source:
http://www.wyrdwords.vispa.com/heathenry/calendar.html
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2. The Hebrew Origin of the English Word "Holy"
holy
related words: hallow, halo.
The conventional etymology quoted below sees a connection between the word holy and "with Old English hal (see health) and Old High German heil "health, happiness, good luck" (source of the German salutation Heil)...."
This to our mind is an optical illusion.
In Old English the word "hale" meant healthy and strong as in the expression "hale and hearty". Hale (sometimes spelt as "hail") in Old English also meant a soldier.
This relates to the Hebrew word "Chail" which could be pronounced much like "hail" and means both soldier and strength, almost the same as in Old English!
In Hebrew we have the word Halel praise, shine, from the root HLL.
Radiating light, revealing Divine presence.
This is close to the English holy.
We also have the Hebrew word "hilah" connoting a surrounding glow. This is the same as halo.
Isaiah 14:
12 How you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
The words translated as "O Day Star, son of Dawn!" in Hebrew are
# Hilel [Illustrious one], ben [son of] Shachar [the morning]#
Conventional etymology:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=holy
holy (adj.)
Old English halig "holy, consecrated, sacred, godly," from Proto-Germanic *hailaga- (cognates: Old Norse heilagr, Old Frisian helich "holy," Old Saxon helag, Middle Dutch helich, Old High German heilag, German heilig, Gothic hailags "holy"). Adopted at conversion for Latin sanctus.
Primary (pre-Christian) meaning is not possible to determine, but probably it was "that must be preserved whole or intact, that cannot be transgressed or violated," and connected with Old English hal (see health) and Old High German heil "health, happiness, good luck" (source of the German salutation Heil)....
halo (n.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=halo
1560s, from Latin halo (nominative halos), from Greek halos "disk of the sun or moon, ring of light around the sun or moon" (also "threshing floor" and "disk of a shield"), of unknown origin. Sense of "light around the head of a holy person or deity" first recorded 1640s. As a verb from 1801.
hallow (v.)
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=hallow&searchmode=none
Old English halgian "to make holy, to honor as holy, consecrate, ordain," related to halig "holy," from Proto-Germanic *haila-ga- (cognates: Old Saxon helagon, Middle Dutch heligen, Old Norse helga), from PIE root *kailo- "whole, uninjured, of good omen" (see health). Used in Christian translations to render Latin sanctificare. Also used since Old English as a noun meaning "holy person, saint." Related: Hallowed; hallowing.
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3. Mark Williams : King Alfred and The Torah
Shalom Yair
Alfred the Great and the Importance of the Oath
by Rosanne E. Lortz
http://englishhistoryauthors.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/alfred-great-and-importance-of-oath.html
# Alfred, by quoting extensively from certain Scripture passages, was
making an argument that Biblical law should be kept by the
Anglo-Saxons. #
Interesting...