Primitive Time-reckoning: A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoplesNilsson, Martin P. (Martin Persson)
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Primitive Time-reckoning: A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples
Nilsson, Martin P. (Martin Persson)
Chronology
I II III IV
1. Raspberry- | Tree- | Under (elder | No sap in
sprouting | sprouting| brother). | trees(?)
season, or | season. | |
olachen- | | |
fishing | | |
season. | | |
| |
2. Raspberry season. | Next one under | Raspberry season.
| (elder brother).|
| |
3. Huckleberry season. | Trying-oil moon. | Huckleberry season.
| |
4. Sallalberry season. | Sockeye moon (?) | Sallalberry season.
| |
5. Season of ? | Between good | South-east
| and bad weather.| wind moon.
| |
6. Past (i. e. empty) | Raspberry season.| Sockeye moon.
boxes (?) | |
| |
7. Wide-face. | Eldest brother. | Elder brother.
| |
8. Round one underneath,| Right moon (?) | Under (elder
i. e. Moon after | | brother).
Wide-face. | |
| |
9. Dog-salmon | Season of?| Sweeping houses, | Pile-driving
month. | | i. e. for winter| moon.
| | ceremonial. |
| | |
10. Cleaned, i. e. of | Staying in | Fish-in-river
leaves. | dance house (?) | moon.
| | |
11. Spawning | Season of | Spawning season. | (?)
season. | flood(?) | |
| | |
12. First- | Near to | Elder brother. | Nothing on it (?)
olachen- | olachen- | |
run moon. | fishing | |
| season. | |
Between the tenth and twelfth the author inserts the winter solstice,
and says that the solstice moons are called by a name which probably
means ‘split both ways’: he adds that the readjustment is made in
mid-winter[732].
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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