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
Stars, 109;
festivals regulated by, 133;
a guide to sea-voyages, 125, 353;
months named after, 227, 247;
new year determined by, 275;
omens of weather, 125, 130, 140, 143;
risings and settings of, 5, 128;
other phases, 129;
time of the night, 40;
time of the year indicated by, 128
Summer and winter, 54, 89
Summer day, the, 81
Sun = day, 13
Sun (cp. solstices and equinoxes), seed-time indicated by, 317;
time of day indicated by the position of, 17
Swedish (cp. Scandinavian) lunar months, 302, 304;
month-names, 299;
quarter-years, 80
Tally, 104, 168, 320
Tetraeteris, 1
Tille on the division of the Germanic year, 77
Time-indications, 9;
concrete, 355;
discontinuous and ‘aoristic’, 9, 356
Time-reckoning, methods of, 8
Units of time-reckoning, 3
Weather, stars as omens of, 125, 130, 140, 143
Webster on the sabbath, 335
Week, seven-day, 333
Week-year, 78, 370
Weidner on Babylonian intercalary cycles, 259
Weinhold on the Germanic seasons, 76
Wind-seasons, greater, 57;
shorter, 85
Winter and summer, 54, 89;
w. the time of festivals, 339
Winter day, the, 81
Winters, years counted in, 9
Year, 86;
agricultural, 91, 95, 96;
Egyptian, 277;
incomplete, 89, 223, 240;
stellar, 4;
stellar, of primitive peoples, 93, 275;
tropic, 4
Years, counting of, 92;
designation of y. after events, 99;
after rulers etc., 101, 107
Yule-moon, 301
FOOTNOTES:
[1] In Swedish (or German) I should use the word _punktnell_ to
denote this mode of time-reckoning, since the calculation is based
upon a _punctum_, a single point, not upon the whole unit of time.
Unfortunately the word ‘punctual’ has quite another sense in English.
[2] Snouck Hurgronje, I. 201.
[3] Jochelson, _Yukaghir_ p. 42.
[4] Jenks, p. 219.
[5] Schoolcraft, II, 129.
[6] _Ibid._ I, 57 B.
[7] Haddon, p. 303.
[8] Ling Roth, p. 133.
[9] See further Usener, _Götternamen_, p. 289. E. g. Pindar, _Ol._
XIII, 37, ἀελίῳ ἀμφ’ ἑνί (‘in one day’), Euripides, _Helena_ 652,
ἡλίους δὲ μυρίους μόγις διελθών (‘with difficulty passing through
thousands of suns’), and in a sacred regulation ἐᾶσαι οὕτως ἔστε κα
τρεῖς ἅλιοι γένωνται (‘to leave so until three suns have passed’),
Blinkenberg, _Die lindische Tempelchronik_, p. 38, Part D, 1. 72,
(Bonn, 1915) etc. In Latin still more frequently, e. g. Silius,
_Punica_, III, 554, _Bis senos soles, totidem per vulnera saevas
emensi noctes, etc._
[10] Il. XXI v. 80 ἠὼς δέ μοί ἐστιν ἥδε δυωδεκάτη ὅτ’ ἐς Ἴλιον
εἰλήλουθα.
[11] Il. XXIV v. 413 δυωδεκάτη οἱ ἠως κειμένῳ.
[12] Otherwise, but in my opinion erroneously, G. Bilfinger, _Der
bürgerliche Tag_, p. 35.
[13] Tacitus, _Germ._ 11, _nec dierum numerum sed noctium computant_.
[14] Schrader, II. 235; Ginzel, I, 243; A. Fischer, p. 744.
[15] Fornander, I, 122.
[16] Taylor, p. 364.
[17] Ellis, _Polyn. Res._³ I, 88.
[18] Mathias G., p. 210.
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