tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post110186479640913332..comments2023-05-24T22:53:48.790+09:00Comments on WKD (01) ... World Kigo Database . . . (WKD): Seasons and CategoriesGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-52053809764280979812011-12-19T12:32:48.723+09:002011-12-19T12:32:48.723+09:00The Book of the Year
A Brief History of
Our Season...The Book of the Year<br />A Brief History of<br />Our Seasonal Holidays<br /><br />ANTHONY F. AVENI<br />Creating, Organizing, and<br />Transforming the Holidays<br /><br />The schedule of rituals that we call our calendar emanates from<br />the vast differences among the seasons that we all experience. Traditionally, we think of the seasons as four in number—summer, fall, winter, and spring. But this taxonomy turns out to be largely a nineteenth-century reinvention of the ancient habit of pivoting the year about the pendulum-like northerly and southerly migration points of the sun (the solstices) and their midpoints (the equinoxes). (Most Indo-European languages have root words for winter, spring, and summer only, which may mean that there once were only three seasons.) In stark contrast, the ancient Celtic calendar set four seasonal marking posts at dates that lie at approximately the middle of our four seasons. Halloween, Groundhog Day, May Day, and the now defunct Lammas, or the First of the Harvest Festival (August 1), once signaled the changing of the fourfold seasonal guard. <br /><br />http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103192581book of the yearhttp://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103192581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9159465.post-1143709333054116002006-03-30T18:02:00.000+09:002006-03-30T18:02:00.000+09:00The Keyword Concept. Read. Beyond Kigo, by Jim Kac...<B>The Keyword Concept. </B><BR/><BR/>Read<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/worldkigolibrary/message/99" REL="nofollow">. Beyond Kigo, by Jim Kacian . </A> <BR/><BR/>::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Gabi Grevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.com