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Januar
is tha
first
month
o tha
yeir
in tha
Gregorian calendar
, an ane o sievin Gregorian months wi 31
days
.
Januar is named eftir
Janus
,
Roman god
o
durs
an yetts.
Januar begins (astrologicalie) wi tha sun in tha syn o
Capricorn
an ends in tha syn o
Aquarius
. Frae an astrologie pynt o view, tha sun begins in tha starnhoard o Sagittarius an ends in tha starnhoard o Capricornus.
The oreiginal Roman calendar wis makkit o 10 month (304 days). The Romans first hid thocht aboot winter as bein a monthless tyd. Bit aboot 700 BC
Romulus
' eftirganger, King
Numa Pompilius
, eikit the months o Januar an
Februar
allouin the calendar ti be e'en wi a staundart moon towmond (354 days). A Roman fowkbeleif agin e'en nummers led til the eikin o ane day sicweys makin the yeir 355 days lang. Tho Mairch wis oreiginalie the first month, Januar usurp'd that poseition acause 'at wis whan consuls wis uisualie waled.
The first day o the month is kent as "
Ne'er's Day
".
Names for Januar o auld lang syn include its oreiginal Roman ane
Ianuarius
, the Saxon name Wulf-monath (meinin "
wouf
month") an
Charlemagne
's ain name for it:
Wintarmanoth
(meinin "winter / cald month"). In the auld Japanese calendar, the month is caa'd
Mutsuki
(睦月). The seicont day o the month is kent as
Hatsuyume
(初夢) an the 7t day as
Nanakusa
(七草). In
Finnish
, the month is caa'd
tammikuu
, meinin "month o the aik".
The first
Monanday
in Januar is kent as
Handsel Monanday
in
Scotland
an northren
Ingland
. In Ingland, the feildwark yeir began wi "Plou Sunday" on the Sunday cumin eftir
Uphalyday
.
The
cumin o age
day in
Japan
is the seicont Monanday o Januar, for thae becumin 20 yeir auld in the new calendar towmond. It is a landweid haliday. The day haes been aboot sin
1948
, bit fell on Januar 15t til
1999
, whan it wis muivit bi the Japanese govrenment in a mynt ti lift the economie bi makin mair holidays cum ane eftir the ither.
In the Haithen wheel o the yeir, Januar ends at or naur til
Imbolc
in the northren hemisphere an
Lughnasadh
in the soothren hemisphere.
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