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In the American Tradition, each moon have a name. In the Farmer's Almanac, we can found some information. Between parenthesis, another naming convention. March : Sap, Crow, Lenten, (Chaste) April : Pink, Sprouting Grass, Egg, Fish, (Seed) May : Flower, Corn Planting, Milk, (Hare) June : Strawberry, Rose, Hot, (Dyad) and also Honey July : Buck, Thunder, Hay, (Mead) August : Sturgeon, Red, Green Corn, Grain, (Corn)
September : Harvest, Corn, Barley October : Hunter's, Travel, Dying Grass, (Blood) November : Beaver, Frost, (Snow) December : Cold, Long Nights, (Oak), and also Moon before Yule January : Wolf, Old, and also Moon after Yule
February : Snow, Hunger, Storm
I found on the Haiku-Inn List of David Coomler some old terms for the "moons" of the Lakota Sioux (of the now United States), which are the equivalent of our "months":
The old Lakota year generally began with the "Ducks Come Together Moon," the time when ducks returned from their wintering in more southern regions.
In German :
Januar: Hartmond, Eismond, Schneemond, Wolfsmond From : the Worldkigodatabase (Gabi Greve) |