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For millennia, people across Europe, as well as Native American tribes, named the months after features they associated with the Northern Hemisphere seasons, and many of these names are very similar or identical.
Today, we use many of these ancient month names as Full Moon names. A common explanation is that Colonial Americans adopted many of the Native American names and incorporated them into the modern calendar.
The Old Farmer's Almanac famously publishes a list of Full Moon names, and we have chosen to use these as the main Full Moon names. However, we have also included several others, and it seems that it is a combination of Native American, Anglo-Saxon, and Germanic month names which gave birth to the Full Moon names we use today.
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