Primitive Time-reckoning A study in the origins and first development of the art of counting time among the primitive and early culture peoples

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Seasonal points--Small seasons--Winter and summer--Dry and rainy seasons--Wind-seasons--Four or five seasons-- Sub-division of seasons--Greater seasons--Cycles of seasons --Agricultural cycles of seasons--Artificially regulated cycles of seasons--Indo-European seasons--Seasons of the Germanic peoples--The division of the Germanic year--The Scandinavian division of the year--The old Scandinavian week-year--Smaller wind-seasons.