NOTES

Chapter Three

  1.  See Gay Gaer Luce, Biological Rhythms in Human & Animal Physiology, p. 13.

  2.  Ibid., pp. 44 ff.

  3.  Ibid., p. 128.

  4.  Ibid., p. 66.

  5.  Ibid., p. 123.

  6.  Jeremy Rifkin, Time Wars, p. 3.

  7.  E. C. Krupp, Echoes of the Ancient Skies, p. 164.

  8.  Jean Hunt, Tracking the Flood Survivors.

  9.  Quoted in Evan Hadingham, Early Man and the Cosmos, p. 51.

 10.  Quoted in Anne Bancroft, The Origins of the Sacred, pp. 50-51.

 11.  E. C. Krupp, ed., In Search of Ancient Astronomies.

Chapter Four

  1.  Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, p. 99.

  2.  Ibid., p. 198.

  3.  Ibid., p. 85. Lockyer’s conclusions were later questioned by archaeoastronomer Gerald Hawkins, who cited observations by a British Army engineer in 1891 that showed that the western Theban hills block the summer Solstice sunset rays from entering the Temple. Hawkins suggested that the structure was oriented instead toward winter Solstice sunrise, and indicated similar alignments elsewhere in the Temple complex.

  4.  E. A. Wallis Budge, The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. II, p. 47.

  5.  Ibid., in his Preface to Lockyer, p. ix.

  6.  Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History, p. 52.

  7.  Norman Lockyer, opus cit., p. 93.

Chapter Five

  1.  See Evan Hadingham, Early Man and the Cosmos, p. 88.

  2.  Thomas E. Mails, Secret Native American Pathways: A Guide to Inner Peace, p. 190. See also Joseph Epes Brown and Black Elk, The Sacred Pipe.

  3.  Quoted in James Cornell, The First Stargazers, p. 159.

  4.  Quoted in ibid., p. 160.

  5.  Quoted in Hadingham, op. cit., p. 131.

  6.  Quoted in Beck and Walters, The Sacred, p. 94.

  7.  Ralph L. Roys, The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumael, p. 86.

  8.  Ptolemy Tompkins, This Tree Grows out of Hell, pp. 60-61.

  9.  Quoted in Hadingham, op. cit., p. 170.

 10.  E. C. Krupp, Echoes of Ancient Skies, pp. 199-200.

 11.  E. C. Krupp, op. cit., p. 241.

Chapter Six

  1.  Norman Lockyer, The Dawn of Astronomy, p. 88.

  2.  In his Introduction to the Surya Siddhanta, transl. Ebenezer Burgess. Calcutta, 1935, p. viii. Quoted in Rupert Gleadow, The Zodiac, p. 142.

  3.  Martha Beckwith, Hawaiian Mythology, p. 119.

Chapter Seven

  1.  Hilda Kuper, The Swazi: A South African Kingdom, p. 70.

  2.  Theodor H. Gaster, Introduction to James G. Frazer, The New Golden Bough, pp. xix-xx.

  3.  Editorial note in James G. Frazer, The Illustrated Golden Bough, Mary Douglas, general ed., 1978, p. 18.

  4.  Ibid., p. 10.

  5.  James G. Frazer, from the Synopsis to The New Golden Bough, pp. xxi-xxiv.

  6.  James G. Frazer, The Illustrated Golden Bough, Mary Douglas, general ed., p. 234.

  7.  S. H. Hooke, Middle Eastern Mythology, p. 39.

  8.  Theodore H. Gaster, New Year: Its History, Customs and Superstition, p. xi.

  9.  Helmut Gipper, in R. Pinxten, ed., Universalism and Relativism in Language and Thought, p. 226.

 10.  James G. Frazer, The Illustrated Golden Bough, p. 189.

Chapter Eight

  1.  See Margaret Murray, The Witch-Cult in Western Europe.

  2.  William Marlin, “When Ancient Basilica Becomes a Sundial.”

  3.  E. C. Krupp, Beyond the Blue Horizon, pp. 302-303.

  4.  Pius Parsch, The Church’s Year of Grace, v. 4, p. 204.

  5.  James G. Frazer, The Illustrated Golden Bough, p. 229.

  6.  James G. Frazer, The New Golden Bough, p. 230.

  7.  Dolores LaChapelle, Earth Wisdom, p. 169.

  8.  Quoted in James G. Frazer, The New Golden Bough, p. 710.

  9.  Ibid., p. 737.

 10.  Jacqueline Simpson, European Mythology, p. 136.

 11.  James G. Frazer, The New Golden Bough, p. 716.

 12.  Ibid., p. 125.

 13.  Dolores LaChapelle, Sacred Land, Sacred Sex; Georg Feuerstein, Sacred Sexuality.

 14.  LaChapelle, op. cit., p. 263.

 15.  James G. Frazer, The New Golden Bough, p. 231.

 16.  Ibid.

Chapter Nine

  1.  Ching, Wilhelm/Baynes, pp. 97-98.

  2.  The Paleolithic Prescription, p. 211.

  3.  See Annette Hamilton, Nature and Nurture: Aboriginal Child-rearing in North-central Arnhem Land.

  4.  The Paleolithic Prescription, p. 207.

  5.  Dolores LaChapelle. Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep, p. 254.

  6.  Mircea Eliade, Rites and Symbols of Initiation: The Mysteries of Birth and Rebirth, p. 25.

  7.  LaChapelle, p. 253.

  8.  Robert Lawlor, Voices of the First Day, p. 229.

  9.  Lewis Hodous, Folkways in China.

 10.  LaChapelle, op. cit., p. 267.

Chapter Ten

  1.  John Michell, The New View over Atlantis, p. 84.

Chapter Eleven

  1.  Alfie Kohn, No Contest, p. 91.

  2.  Terry Orlick, The Cooperative Sports and Games Book, p. 31.

  3.  Jeffrey Sobel, Everybody Wins, p. 53.

  4.  Terry Orlick, The Second Cooperative Sports and Games Book, p. 231.

  5.  Allan and Paulette Macfarlan, Handbook of American Indian Games, p. 253.

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  7.  Lynda Palladin, Ceremonies for Change, p. 56. Many of the suggestions in this section are drawn from this useful book, which focuses specifically on the personal use of ritual and ceremony to mark significant life changes.

  8.  John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming, Arne Naess, Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings, p. 8.

  9.  Ibid., pp. 85-8.