Abdal Hakim Murad – Sacred Nature of the Islamic Calendar
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Again the good fortune of the believer that the months means
something.
If you don't have these months you just have January February, March,
April and none of them mean anything at all.
Originally they did for a different OMA January was named
after the god of Janus, the gates beginning of the new year.
February was named after the god of undertakings March named after
Mars. So the Romans like to fight wars and Julius Caesar killed on
the Ides of Mars, which was thought to be an auspicious event,
time for an assassination attempt, and so on. But that's all my tone
color. To us. That means nothing at all. It's just January,
February, March, April, it means nothing. It's flat.
But when you move into a sacred calendar, the world feels
different. There are peaks and there are lows. There is an
experience of time which is richer than the experience of time.