{"id":306,"date":"2007-02-13T01:24:29","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceffyl.net\/wordpress\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-02-13T01:56:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:56:19","slug":"feast-of-epona-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceffyl.net\/wordpress\/eponanet\/feast-of-epona-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Feast of Epona in June?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was answering an email about Epona and a feast date on June 13th. This date seems a litle strange to me. I&#8217;ve heard of it before, but haven&#8217;t found any real supporting evidence. Many of the sites where this date is listed state that it is the &#8220;Celtic&#8221; feast of Epona (as opposed to the Roman festival on December 18th).<\/p>\n<p>We do know from <a href=\"http:\/\/epona.net\/inscriptions.html\">an inscription at Guidizzolo<\/a> that Epona was honored on 18 December as part of the Saturnalia. The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coligny_calendar\">Coligny Calendar<\/a>, a Gaulish calendar found in 1897, lists a month called &#8216;EQVOS&#8217; (horse) that corresponds to June or July (depending upon how the calendar is calculated).<\/p>\n<p>The June 13th feast date is mentioned on the Summer Solstice entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religioustolerance.org\/summer_solstice.htm\">Religious Tolerance.org Web site<\/a>, however no supporting evidence is cited. This same text appears to be proliferated on quite a few web sites (none of whom cite a reference for the June 13th date).<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, one of the interesting feasts of Epona that I found was one in Michigan. Mackinac Island has a Feast of Epona every year around June 13th as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinacisland.org\/lilacfestival.html\">Lilac Festival<\/a>. Neat thing about Mackinac Island &#8212; no motorized vehicles are allowed. Only horses for riding. (Sounds like my kind of place!)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to have to do some research into this. Interesting.<\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was answering an email about Epona and a feast date on June 13th. This date seems a litle strange to me. I&#8217;ve heard of it before, but haven&#8217;t found any real supporting evidence. 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