Origin of religious fasts

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Origin of religious fasts.

Mythological motifs. · Creation and ordering of human life. · Origin of customs. · Origin of religious ceremonials. · view the constellation · filed as A1541.7

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Hermetic / Alchemical Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Volume I: Prolegomena , Chapter IX: Plutarch: Concerning the Mysteries of Isis and Osiris
Depth Commentary Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom , Chapter XVIII
Middle Eastern The Thousand and One Nights, commonly called, in England, The Arabian Nights' Entertainments , Chapter 1
Indic The Mahābhārata , Book 3, Section CXXVI
Literary Crystallization Moby-Dick; or, The Whale , 89

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Jewish Neuman.

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Filed under Origin of religious feasts and fasts.

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Origin of feast for the dead. (Cf. A1543.1.) Origin of feasts in honor of certain god (goddess) Origin of Hallowe'en Origin of Sabbath Origin of passover Origin of Pentecost

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