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Anthony F. Aveni
Book of the Year:
A Brief History of Our Seasonal Holidays
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2003

What is the connection between May Day and the Statue of Liberty? Between ancient solstice fires and Fourth of July fireworks? Between St. Valentine, the Groundhog, and the Virgin Mary? Why do people behave so bawdily during Mardi Gras? How has the significance and celebration of Christmas changed over the centuries?
In The Book of the Year, Anthony Aveni offers fascinating answers to
...on the walls of their caves when it came time to hunt? They donned the mask of the animal to impersonate its spirit. Then they ceremonially “killed it” because they believed rehearsal would lead to the act itself. Once our forebears became sedentary, the appropriate holy rites got fixed in the yearly cycle: rainmaking rites, irrigation rites, sowing, plowing, and reaping festivals. All were aimed at controlling the powers related to vegetation at crucial joints in the framework of the seasons.
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