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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• 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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