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 Intercalation (cp. month, intercalary,) cyclical, 362; in Greece, 368; empirical, 243, 359; origin of, 240; pre-Mohammedan, 253; regulated by the solstices, 265; by the stars, 247 Israelitish festivals at full moon, 341; intercalation, 244; months, 233; new year, 272 King in charge of the calendar, 352 Knots, 104, 320 Kugler on Babylonian intercalation, 260 Landmarks indicating times of the day, 21; for observation of solstices and equinoxes, 311 Latin expressions for times of the day, 37; star-names, 113 Lunar month, see Month. Lunar months of European peoples, 294, 304, 305 Markets, in Arabia, 251; in Canaan, 334 Market-week, 324 Measures of time, 42 Monsoons, 57, 87 Month, 147; division of, 155, 159; halving of, 166; tripartite division of, 167; quarters of, 170; intercalary, 243; of the Wadschagga, 203; lunar, 5; number of days in, 149; sidereal, 4; synodic, 5 Month-names, 174; from festivals, 345; from seasons and occupations, 218, 227; from stars, 227, 247; absence of, 223; multiplicity of, 222; old Greek, 364; pairs of, 224; popular European, 282; variability of, 221 Months, counting of, 148, 217; numbering of, 188, 233; series of, 174; incomplete, 240, 246; Semitic, 226 Moon (cp. full moon, new moon) course of, 147; invisibility of, 149; phases of, 151, 155; smaller phases, 159; position of, 150; time counted by, 16 Mountains as landmarks, 21 Nasi, 253 New moon, celebration of, 151 New moons, counting in, 151, 235 New Year, 8, 91, 267; Egyptian, 278; festivals of, 268 Night, parts of, 39; times of, indicated by the stars, 40 Nights, counting in, 13 ‘Noon-line’, 21 Nundinae, 333 Oktaeteris, 1, 363 Olympiads, 364 Pars pro toto counting, 358; of days, 16; of weeks, 358; of years, 92 Picture-writings, 103 Planets, 120, 124 Plant as sun-dial, 19 Pleiades the, as indicating seed-time, 134; special significance of, 129 Pleiades-year, 275 Priests as calendar-makers, 350 Qalammas, 253 Quarters of the moon, 170 Rainy and dry seasons, 54, 88; two, 62 Sabbath, 329 Scandinavian (cp. Icelandic, Swedish) divisions of the day, 21; observation of solstices, 316; seasons, 74; week-reckoning, 80 Schools of astronomy, 354 Seasonal points, 46 Seasons, 45; cycles of, 65; number: two, 54; two or three, 72, 75; three, 64; four or five, 58, 63; six, 60; s. and months, 218; regulation of, 70; subdivision of, 61, 72 Sea-voyages, stars a guide to, 125, 353 Shabattu, 329 Shadow, time of day reckoned according to, 19 Shifting method of time-reckoning, 8 Solstices, 220; festivals regulated by, 344; months regulated by, 265; observation of, 311 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