Here's why the months are named what they are.

Here's why the months are named what they are.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
In Fact of the Day, day day day day.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do do do do do do
do do do do do doooo. This week's theme for
the Fact of the Day is the calendar. Okay, it's
calendar themed. Okay week, and today we're going to be
looking at the names of the months of our year.

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Have you ever thought about where they come from? Jen
after Jen after Jen, Jen.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Lovely, lovely Jen, February after lovely fib.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
Well, here we go, okay, Okay. Originally there were only
ten months. January and February were the last ones to
be added, but they put them on the front, okay,
because they felt that that's where it needed to be.
This is the Romulus calendar. This is Roman slight change
to where we're at now with our Gregorian calendar, but
that's based off this this calendar. So January February we're
added last. Before that, there were only ten months. January

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takes its name from Janus, the Roman god of beginnings
and endings, because it's the ending. Because it's the ending, yeah,
the beginning of the year. But it sounds like anus,
doesn't it. That's what you get in there.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Digested from the beginning of the end, isn't it?

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, So that's Janus is January, the Roman
god of beginnings and endings. February comes from the word februm,
which is purification, and the februer, which are instruments used
in the purification. It was also a celebration they had
throughout the month of February, and on February fifteen there

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was a particular thing that happened where you would clean
your house and put salt outside, and young men naked, yeah,
except for a goat skin cape dashed around romes sacred boundary,
plainfully whipping woman with strips of goat leather. How dare you?
It was to promote fertility. So that was February. Tradition
has it that Romulus named the fourth March, fourth good

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month Martys after his own father, Mars, the god of war,
so Mar March is named after Mars. The following was April, Aprilus,
and then Mayus and then Junius, names derived from Roman culture.
For example, April is named after Aphrodite, the ancient Greek
goddess of love and sexuality, and it was the first

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month of spring of the northern hemispheund old Rome sounds
very horny. I mean you were naked all the time.
And then the ones that weren't just walking around the
kind of towels just kind of drink over them a
little bit, some curtains over them. Maya is may who's
like you might have heard of, like the singer the
singer Maya. Yes, from the the weak point of Lady Mama.

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She's a fantastic singer. She just wasn't given. I mean,
you're rap against Christina Aguilera. Yeah, she was Juno the
Goldness of war, and woman gives us the name of June. Now,
for they're on out on the original ten. The names
of the month didn't change from their origin. They were
just named after.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Adam Levine and the other members of Marine five Maroon
believe it's correct.

Speaker 2 (03:11):
So the numeracle names of the month and the second
half remain unchanged until the end of the Roman Republic,
where Quintillus and sex till Us Quintillus the fifth sex
tell Us the sixth month were renamed after Julius and
Augustus Caesar. So there's your July and your August, right.
This changed their four months September, October, November, December, because

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they thought, going forth, I bet there's going to be
some other great Roman leaders and we'll be able to
name these rename these months after them, and not so afterward.
It was kind of the end of the Roman Empire,
wasn't it. So the horning that's got a bit much
and then collapse probably, I think if you're going to
focus on nothing but sex, you know, you've got to
have a bird of agricultureally hit the butt when you said,
but well, I mean of that horning.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
That's going to be an aspect of it.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
So then the months afterwards never changed. They just stayed
with their corresponding numbers. When they were ten months, September
was the seventh month. Of course, when you put two
on the front, it becomes the ninth month. It's quite
this is a lot. Face you're going to need to
go to something. It feels like you've given twelve facts.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
You've given us many facts.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It's all about the names of the month.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
Baby, great seedy, we're going to I feel like it overwhelmed.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, I'm feeling overwhelmed. Seven. Yeah, October is eight because
we're going to need to go about six there's nine.
What are you doing about sixty two of the Romans
did this. It's amazing they've got anything done with the
amount of horniness going on. They were renaming months and
changing calendars and overwhelmed and just feel December, the original

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tenth month for ten, became the twelfth. It's too much,
it's too much. Maybe tomorrow's fact could be no to
Maybe tomorrow effect can.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Be about those calendar people in the malls every December,
one of those every year.

Speaker 2 (04:56):
Yeah, they know, and they did it, and they tell
me how much money those places? Crazy a lot. That's great,
that's interesting as the names is it? Though? It's too much.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
It's you've given us a look one way too much
overloaded us we Brewer, we're but yeah, we're buffering.

Speaker 2 (05:18):
Marsius a preless Mayus junus, who is a justice some
sort of.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Yeah, classics at school. I did what you do? Now?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
What are they doing now? H I love you? Hr okay?
And they often say, hey, look there's been a complaint. Now,
this wouldn't happened an ancient rhyme that would have taken
you straight down to the Christian pits the lions.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
Today's Fact of the Day January through December