
The Dance of Time
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Three streams of history created the Western calendar?first from the Sumerians, then from the Celtic and Germanic peoples in the North, and finally from Palestine with the rise of Christianity. Michael Judge teases out the contributions of each stream to the shape of the calendar, to the days and holidays, and to associated lore. In them, he finds glimpses of a way of seeing before the mechanical time of clocks, when the rhythms of man and woman matched those of earth and sky, and the sacred was born.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Part One - The Tak of Years
- I. And Life Time's Foot
- II. The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
- III. Colendarium
- IV. A Day and a Night
- V. Converting the Faithful
- VI. Empty Pockets
- Part Two - Heaven's Round
- Winter
- January: The Father of Morning
- January 1: New Year's Day
- February: The Secret Birth
- February 1 and 2: Cross-Quarter Day
- February 15: The Lupercal, Saint Valentine's Day
- Lent
- March: Rain, Mud, and Hope
- March 20-25:0 Quarter Day
- Spring
- April: Awake!
- April 1: April Fools Day
- Passover, Easter: The Dancing Sun
- May: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- May 1: Cross-Quarter Day
- June: At the Height of Glory
- June 24: Quarter Day
- Summer
- July: Caesura
- August: The Gateway to Splendid Beauties
- August 1: Cross-Quarter Day
- September: Intimations of Mortality
- September 20-21: Quarter Day
- Autumn
- October: The Dead
- October 31-November 2: Cross-Quarter Day
- November: The Beauty of the Bone
- Thanksgiving
- December: The Invincible Sun
- Advent: From the Sunday nearest Saint Andrew's Day to Christmas
- December 17-25: Quarter Day
- December 31: New Year's Eve
- Picture Acknowledgments
- Index
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