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

CHAPTER V.--THE MONTH 147

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The moon--Counting of months and their days--Indications of the position of the moon--Salutations to the new moon-- Celebration of the full moon--Other phases--The greater phases of the moon--Further phases--Days named after the phases of the moon--Groups of days named after the phases of the moon--Days counted from the greater phases--Decades-- African systems--The quarters of the moon.