[404] Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 677 ff.

[405] Lev. xxiii, 23 f.; Numb. xxix, 1 ff. The Hebrew text of Ezek. xl, 1, makes the year begin on the tenth day of some month unnamed; but the Hebrew is probably to be corrected after the Greek. Cf. Nowack, Hebräische Archäologie, ii, 158 f.

[406] Fowler, Roman Festivals, p. 278.

[407] Cf. A. Mommsen, Feste der Stadt Athen (1898), p. 55.

[408] J. W. Fewkes, "The Winter Solstice Ceremony at Walpi" (in The American Anthropologist, xi).

[409] Prescott, Peru, i, 104, 127.

[410] A Saracen cult is described in Nili opera quædam (Paris, 1639), pp. 28, 117.

[411] Hollis, The Nandi, p. 100; Rivers, The Todas, p. 593 ff.; cf. Dorsey, The Skidi Pawnee, p. xviii f.; Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics, iii, 132 f.

[412] For some fasting observances in astral cults see Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, ii, 312 f.

[413] As food is the most pressing need.