Season

• Season is used in Calendar.

  A calendar that names festivals by harvest and light is using seasons as a clock. The festivals are local.

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• Season is associated with Leaf.

  Leaves come and go with the year in many climates. The fact is botanical before it is a rite.

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• Season appears in Astrology.

  Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos seats the tropical year and seasonal weather among judicial and mundane speech. A named season frame in that handbook, not Demeter leaf-calendar alone and not a festival dump.

  from Claudius Ptolemy · Tetrabiblos, c. 150 CE

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• Cycle contains Season.

  Seasons are one way a year is quartered. Not every tradition quarters the year the same way.

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• Four is associated with Season.

  A four-season year is one local habit of dividing light and weather. It is not universal.

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• Rain is associated with Season.

  Wet and dry seasons are one way people have named a year. Not every climate quarters that way.

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• Green is associated with Season.

  A green season is a farmer’s fact. Festivals hung on that fact are local.

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Hellenic religion

• Season is associated with Demeter.

  The Homeric Hymn to Demeter explains a season of barren earth as a mother’s grief. That is a Greek story about grain, not a global vegetation-myth.

  from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Demeter, c. 7th–6th century BCE

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• Season appears in Hellenic religion.

  Hesiod’s Theogony names the Horae born to Zeus and Themis as orderers of the works of mortals. A named Hellenic season-class in that cosmogony, not justice as Dike alone and not peace as Eirene alone.

  from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

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Roman religion

• Season appears in Roman religion.

  Pliny’s Natural History seats seasons among the year’s turns of weather and husbandry speech. A named season in that encyclopedia, not calendar as the counting tool alone and not Demeter myth season alone.

  from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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Chinese tradition

• Season appears in Chinese tradition.

  Wilhelm’s Yijing correlative speech seats the seasons among the classic’s timed image world. A named season in that classic, not a calendar app and not time as the same edge.

  from Richard Wilhelm / Cary F. Baynes (translation) · I Ching (Yijing), Wilhelm 1924; Baynes English 1950

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