Dance Of Time The Origins of the Calendar A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days

Most people have forgotten, having surrendered their time to mechanisms, why Halloween falls at the end of October, why the birth of Christ is proclaimed in winter's darkness, why Easter and Passover come hand in hand with the spring. Yet it is exactly in answering these questions that we discover a remarkable world, far and yet near, ancient and yet as new as tomorrow's sunrise, where symbol and reality conjoin ... a universe in which we were not strangers.... That universe is with us still-in fact it lies one step beyond the stoop. Its story is ours, as old as humanity. Its cast is immense-wind and weather, stars and saints, kings and peasants-and the lead is none other than dear old Mother Earth herself, who waltzes around our sun in stately time, trailing the seasons in her train. Yet for many, that world remains hidden, just out of sense, like the half-heard murmur of an underground stream. Uncovering that stream, and inviting you to drink from its waters, is the purpose of this book. - from The Dance of Time.Judge, Michael is the author of 'Dance Of Time The Origins of the Calendar A Miscellany of History and Myth, Religion and Astronomy, Festivals and Feast Days', published 2004 under ISBN 9781559707466 and ISBN 1559707461.