cal references

names of the moons

 

 

 The lunar year consists of 354 days. On average the first moon, or old moon, of the Penobscot calendar began on December 21st, but it could begin anywhere from December 5th to December 30. Every third year Penobscots added a 13th moon, the "inserted moon". Further adjustment was needed two or three times per century, when the 13th moon was inserted in a second year instead of a third year.

 

Learn the names of the Penobscot moons

 

 

 

daysOfTheWeek

 

 

 

 

 

Learn the days of the week in Penobscot

 

 

 

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Learn how to say the calendar phrases

April 7, 1604

French cartographer Samuel de Champlain leaves from France with a French nobleman, Pierre Du Gua De Monts, for Maine. They entered the Bay of Fundy by May, and later Champlain would meet Penobscot Chief Bashabez at the mouth of the Kenduskeag Stream on the Penobscot River.