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Celtic Tree Signs carries 13 debated or debunked facts of 133 total, nine point eight percent, against an atlas wide baseline under one percent. There is no partial case here. All thirteen of the type's live pages carry the identical debunked note, and nothing else.

Robert Graves, Not Celtic Antiquity

Every tree sign, from Alder to Willow, carries the same sentence word for word: "the 'Celtic tree calendar' and its thirteen tree birth signs are a twentieth century literary construction (Robert Graves, The White Goddess, 1948), superseded as a claim about Celtic antiquity. No Irish, Welsh or classical source describes a thirteen month tree calendar or a tree zodiac, and the ogham is a twenty letter script with no calendrical function."

Thirteen Trees, One Argument

What changes from tree to tree is which one and which ogham letter it names, Beth for Birch, Duir for Oak, Saille for Willow. The argument against the calendar's antiquity does not change at all. Grouped here with Frequencies, Gemstone and Seven Ray, at full completion: all thirteen, not a majority.

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• Birch (Beth)Birch (Beth), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Rowan (Luis)Rowan (Luis), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Ash (Nion)Ash (Nion), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Alder (Fearn)Alder (Fearn), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Willow (Saille)Willow (Saille), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Hawthorn (Uath)Hawthorn (Uath), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Oak (Duir)Oak (Duir), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Holly (Tinne)Holly (Tinne), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Hazel (Coll)Hazel (Coll), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Vine (Muin)Vine (Muin), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Ivy (Gort)Ivy (Gort), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Reed (Ngetal)Reed (Ngetal), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word
• Elder (Ruis)Elder (Ruis), one of thirteen tree signs carrying the identical debunked note word for word