Motif
Auspicious and inauspicious calendar days govern human and practical actions
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A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family, within the sub-family Calendar Rules and Sacred Units. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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greek
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica INTRODUCTION / BIBLIOGRAPHY / HESIOD / HESIODS WORKS AND DAYS; lines 2284-2336 confidence: high
The sixth of the mid-month is unfavorable for plants, good for male birth, unfavorable for a girl to be born or married; the first sixth is bad for a girl's birth but good for gelding kids and sheep and fencing a sheep-cote; a boy born then will favor sharp speech, lies, cunning words, and stealthy converse.
The passage repeatedly assigns favorable, unfavorable, harmless, holy, or dangerous qualities to specific days for births, marriage, gelding, farming, building, jars, yokes, and ships.
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