Editing The White Goddess (section)

==Celtic tree calendar==
Graves argues that the names of the [[Ogham]] letters in the alphabet used in parts of [[Gaelic Ireland]] and Britain contained a calendar that contained the key to an ancient [[liturgy]] involving the [[human sacrifice]] of a [[sacred king]], and, further, that these letter names concealed lines of [[Ancient Greek]] [[hexameter]] describing the goddess.

Graves' "tree calendar" has no relation to any historical [[Celtic calendar]].<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Peter Berresford |last=Ellis |title=The Fabrication of 'Celtic' Astrology |magazine=The Astrological Journal |volume=39 |issue=4 |year=1997 |url=http://cura.free.fr/xv/13ellis2.html |via=Centre Universitaire de Recherche en Astrologie}}</ref>
His interpretations rather rely on the book ''Ogygia'' by the 17th-century bard [[Roderick O'Flaherty]].