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Kalends: see calendar calendar [Lat., from Kalends], system of reckoning time for the practical purpose of recording past events and calculating dates for future plans. The calendar is based on noting ordinary and easily observable natural events, the cycle of the sun through the seasons ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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The authors begin in the Anglo-Saxon period and move on to Kalends, Feasts of Fools, and other early folk customs. In Gaelic, the words for menstruation and calendar are the same; in Latin, newmoon sabbaths honoring the moon cycle of women were called kalends. Citing Stern, but misreading Ides as Kalends and forgetting about Easter, Grayzel, 1979, 157 incorrectly dates Eugenius's bull as January 1432. |
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