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Month Menstruate
Engraved before 1811 from an original in the then Museum Pio Clemens in Rome (Click for details)
Esculapius (Medicine) between Mercury (Merchants) and the Graces (Medicine, Hygiene and Panacea)
Esculapius dealt with Patients - Merchants make deals with Clients

~ MONTH  in sp     MES    = MONTH  sug> MENSES
^u          indeur ME       MOON   sug> MENSTRUATE
            gr     MENE     MOON
            ukr    MISIACZ  MOON and MONTH
  hx> HISTORICALLY A MONTH WAS A LUNAR MEASURE
      note IN SLAVIC LANGUAGES
  PAGAN NAMES PERSIST as given in ukr
  JANUARY    SICHEN       CUTTING COLD
  FEBRUARY   LUTYJ        FIERCE
  MARCH      BEREZEN      BIRCH
  APRIL      KVITEN       FLOWERING     see> APERTURE
  MAY        TRAVEN       GRASS
  JUNE       CHERVEN      WORM
  JULY       LYPEN        HONEY GATHERING
  AUGUST     SERPEN       SICKLE or HARVEST   sug> SERBIA
  SEPTEMBER  VERESEN      VEREZ = HEATH or
                          FLOWERING SHRUBS
  OCTOBER    ZHOVTEN      YELLOW MONTH
  NOVEMBER   LYSTOPAD     FALLING LEAVES
  DECEMBER   HRUDEN       FROZEN MUD
  note SOME OF THE ABOVE ALSO PERSISTS
       IN CZECH  SLOVAK etc
 
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