Dance of Time The Origins of the Calendar

Name: Dance of Time The Origins of the Calendar
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ISBN: 9781611455113

ISBN-10: 1611455111

ISBN-13: 9781611455113

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Judge

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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…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.00" long x 5.10" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English

Michael Judge has been an actor, playwright, screenwriter, folklorist, and congressional historian and guide, as well as editor of the Senate newsletter, the Inkwell. He lives with his wife in Washington, DC.