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
Wollaston, A. F. R., _Pygmies and Papuans_. London, 1912.
Worm, Olaus, _Fasti Danici_. Hafniæ, 1642.
Yermoloff, A., _Der landwirtschaftliche Volkskalender_ (der
Russen). Leipsic, 1905.
INDEX.
Acronychal risings and settings, 5
Age, classes of, 99;
ignorance of, 98;
relative, 98
Agricultural cycles of seasons, 66;
festivals, 268, 337;
year, 91, 95
Anglo-Saxon seasons, 75;
months and year, 292
Apollo, festivals of, 363;
and the Greek calendar, 366
Arabic lunisolar year, 251;
month-names, 237;
names for days of the month, 165
Astrology, 119;
origin of, 146
Astronomers, primitive, 350, 351
Babylonian designation of years, 105;
intercalation, 258;
months, 226
Beginning of the year, see New Year.
Bilfinger on the Icelandic week-year, 78, n. 1;
on the Anglo-Saxon year, 295
Birds of passage, 46
Calendar, Greek star-c., 114;
Indian picture-writing c., 103
Calendar-makers, 347
Canaanitish month-names, 233
Constellations, 114
Continuous time-reckoning, 8, 359
Counting, 168;
aids in, 319;
of days, 168;
of months, 148, 217
Dagsmǫrk, 21
Dawn = day, 13
Day, of 24 hours, 11;
limits of, 43;
solar, stellar, 3;
as unit of time-reckoning, 3
Day, times of, 17;
expressions for, 22;
indications of, 17
Days, counting of: in dawns, 13;
in days, 14;
in nights, 13;
in sleeps, 15;
in suns, 12
Decades, 168
Delphi, influence on the calendar, 365
Dieteris, 1
Disting, 302
Dry and rainy seasons, 54, 88;
two, 62
Easter, computation of, 301
Ebb and flow, 39
Egyptian designation of years, 107;
year, 277
End of the year, 268
Ennaeteris, 364
Epiphany moon, 301
Eponyms, 107
Equinoxes, observation of, 313
Extracalation, 244, 360
Fasti, Greek, 365
Feriae conceptivae, 340
Festivals, agricultural and new year, 268;
cycles of, 337;
months named after, 345;
regulated by the moon, 341;
by the solstices, 344;
by the stars, 133
First-fruits, 269
Full moon, celebration of, 155;
the time of festivals, 342
Germanic division of the year, 75;
month-names, 288;
seasons, 74
Gestures indicating days, 12;
time of the day, 17
Gezer, calendar of, 235
Gnomon, 20
Greek division of the month, 168;
expressions for times of the day, 34;
observation of the solstices, 316;
of the stars, 110;
seasonal points, 46;
seasons, 72;
calendar, 362
Half-years, reckoning in, 75, 78, 87
Hammurabi, letter of, 263
Heliacal risings and settings, 5
Hesiod, 46, 112
Homer, 34, 110, 316
Hour, origin of, 43
Icelandic (cp. Scandinavian) designation of times of the day, 21;
months, 297;
seasons, 75;
week-year, 78, 370
Indo-European expressions for times of the day, 31;
notion of the year, 97;
seasons, 71
Intercalary cycle, Babylonian, 259;
Greek, 363
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