Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Couzens Reginald C.
Title : The stories of the Months and Days With Illustrations from Famous Paintings and Statuary
Year : 19*

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Our Divisions of Time How familiar to us are the names of the months, and the days of the week, and yet how few of us know to whom we owe these names or what a wealth of meaning they possess. They have come to us from the past, from the time when people worshipped many gods and ex plained the wonders of nature in their own simple way. But before listening to the stories which these names can tell us, we ought first of all to remind 'ourselves of the way in which our divisions of time came into being. ...