Did you know that the ancient Romans left sixty days of winter out
of their calendar, considering these two months a dead time of
lurking terror and therefore better left unnamed? That they had a
horror of even numbers, hence the tendency for months with an odd
number of days? That robed and bearded druids from the Celts stand
behind our New Year's figure of Father Time? That if Thursday is
Thor's day, then Friday belongs to his faithful wife, Freya, queen
of the Norse gods? That the name Easter may derive from the
Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre, whose consort was a hare,
our Easter Bunny?
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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