Sources & Further Reading

“2010 Calendar of World Religion sacred times,” www.interfaithcalendar.org/2010.htm

“Akitu,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akitu

“Ancient Greek Festivals,” www.fjkluth.com/festival.html

“Assumption of the Virgin Mary with Roses” image, www.uvoc.org/Assumption/Assumption.html

"Brumalia," en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brumalia

“Christian Saints: St. John the Evangelist,” www.abcgallery.com/saints/johnevang.html

“Compiled List of Festivals and Sacrifices in Athens,” www.numachi.com/~ccount/hmepa/Notes.html

“Date Converter for Ancient Egypt,” aegyptologie.online-resourcen.de/Date_Converter_for_Ancient_Egypt

“Dionysian Meditations: The Anthesteria,” www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/BA/JO-Anth.html

“Egyptian Feast days,” www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/ancient_religion/ pages/feast_days.html

“An Egyptian Horoscope Calendar/Cairo Calendar,” www.angelfire.com/falcon/wily/cal.html

“The festivals of Dionysos in Athens,” www.musagora.education.fr/dionysos/dionysosen/fetes.htm

“The Horned God and Christianity,” www.wilsonsalmanac.com/horned_god.html

“Imbolc,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbolc

“January 24—Paganalia,” www.blueworld.org/greenbriar/index.php/2009/01/book-of-days/january-24-paganalia

“Judith S. Young, Ph.D, Professor of Astronomy,” forums.truthbeknown.com/viewtopic.php?t=2326; www.astro.umass.edu/~young/young.html

“June 15,” www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/jun15.html

“Mehregan,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehregan

“Nehebkau,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nehebkau

“Nova Roma: Calendar of Holidays and Festivals,” www.novaroma.org/calendar/junius.html

“October 18,” www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/oct18.html

“October 28,” www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/oct28.html

“Parentalia: Roman religious festival,” www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/443487/Parentalia

“Roman Festival Days,” www.purplehell.com/riddletools/rfestival.htm

“Secular Solstice and Equinox Celebrations,” forums.truthbeknown.com/viewtopic.php?t=2326

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“Time and Calendars,” forums.truthbeknown.com/viewtopic.php?t=1243

“Ursula: Saint, or bear-goddess?,” www.wilsonsalmanac.com/ursula_bear_goddess.html

“Walpurgis Night,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night

“When-is,” http://www.when-is.com/

“Zoroastrian calendar for 2010,” www.bbc.co.uk/religion/tools/calendar/faith.shtml? zoroastrian

Acharya S, The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold , Adventures Unlimited Publishing, IL, 1999.
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American Heritage Dictionary , Houghton Mifflin, 2000/2009.

Borgeaud, Phillipe, Mother of the Gods: From Cybele to the Virgin Mary , tr. Lysa Hochroth, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Brier, Bob, Ancient Egyptian Magic , Harper, 1998.

Campbell, Joseph, The Masks of God , vol. 3, Penguin, 1991.

Campbell, Linda, “The Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ,” www.suite101.com/article.cfm/modern_customs/78304

Cauville, Sylvie, Dendara: Les fêtes d’Hathor , Peeters, 2002.

Cellarius, Andreas, Harmonia Macrocosmica , www.phys.uu.nl/~vgent/cellarius/cellarius_plates.htm

Condos, Theony, Star Myths of the Greeks and Roman , Phanes Press, 1997; www.cosmopolis.com/villa/menu.html

Davison, W.T., ed., The London Quarterly Review , CII, Charles H. Kelly, London, July/October 1904.

Depuydt, Leo, Civil Calendar and Lunar Calendar in Ancient Egypt , Peeters Publishers, 1997.

Diodorus Siculus, The Antiquities of Egypt , tr. Edwin Murphy, Transactions Publishers, 1990.

Drew, A.J., A Wiccan Bible , New Page Books, NJ, 2003.

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Dunwich, Gerina, Everyday Wicca: Magickal Spells throughout the Year , Citadel Press, 2000.
—The Wicca Book of Days: Legend and Lore for Every Day of the Year , Citadel Press, 2001.

El-Sabban, Sherif, Temple Festival Calendars of Ancient Egypt , Liverpool University Press, 2000.

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Lockyer, J. Norman, Dawn of Astronomy , Kessinger, 1998.
—Nature , XLVII, MacMillan & Co., London/NY, November 1892-April 1893.

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Saperstein, Marc, Exile in Amsterda m, Hebrew Union College Press, 2005.

Senn, Frank C., Christian Liturgy: Catholic and Evangelical , Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1997.

Seznec, Jean, The Survival of the Pagan Gods , Princeton, 1995.

Simms, Robert, “Erectheus and the Arrephoria,” www.apaclassics.org/AnnualMeeting/05mtg/abstracts/ SIMMS.html

Smith, William, ed., A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities , Harper & Brothers, NY, 1886.

Stein, Diane, Casting the Circle: A Woman's Book of Ritual , Crossing Press, 1990.

Taylor, Robert, The Devil’s Pulpit, Or Astro-Theological Sermons , Kessinger, 1992.

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Turcan, Robert, The Cults of the Roman Empire , Wiley-Blackwell, 1997.

Young, John K., Sacred Sites of the Knights Templar , Fair Winds, 2005.

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William S. Walsh, Curiosities of Popular Customs , J.B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1898.

Wilkinson, John Gardner, The Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians , III, John Murray, London, 1878.