Motif
auspicious and inauspicious days for work
auspicious_and_inauspicious_days_for_work
A motif of the Sacred Time and Ritual Cycle family. 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 ENDNOTES / PREPARERS NOTE / PREFACE / INTRODUCTION; lines 452-529 confidence: high
The later sections are summarized as treating industry, agriculture, trading by sea, domestic and everyday precepts, and favorable or unfavorable days of the month for agricultural and other operations.
The final section of the poem is described as notices on days of the month favorable or unfavorable for agricultural and other operations, and the passage links fruitful industry to knowing suitable days for work.
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