This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...old Saxon name for barley was gerst; but this grain being looked upon with especial favour, 'from the drinke therewith made called beere, ' it became first beerlegh, then berlegh, and finally barley. October was called Wyn-monath, or Winemonth. November was Wind-monath, or Wind-month. December was originally Winter ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ...old Saxon name for barley was gerst; but this grain being looked upon with especial favour, 'from the drinke therewith made called beere, ' it became first beerlegh, then berlegh, and finally barley. October was called Wyn-monath, or Winemonth. November was Wind-monath, or Wind-month. December was originally Winter-monath, or Winter-month; but after Christianity was established in the land it became Heligh-monath, or Holy-month, from its being the birth-time of our Lord.f The Parsees assign each day of the month, and Clavis Calendaria. t Ibid. NAMES OF ANIMALS. 145 each hour of the day and night, to superintending genii, and give to them the names of presiding deities. Significant names, chosen either from those of their gods or from lofty mountains, were given by the people of Armenia to each separate day of the week and to each of the twenty-four hours of the day and night. The wandering tribes of the Kalmuck Tartars, whose worldly possessions consist in vast herds of camels, horses, sheep, and a comparatively small number of cattle, give to months, days, and hours, names taken from those of animals. Greece and Rome did honour, too, in a different manner, to the names of some animals. The winners of chariot races at the Olympic games consecrated in the temple of Jupiter the names of the horses to whom their triumph was owing, and ancient Latin inscriptions still exist which record the names of the winning horses in the circus at Rome. Of these names some recall that of their first master, others refer to their native land, while others are characteristic names, such as The Gentle, The Proud, &c. In Thibet, not the men who ride, or those who own the winning horses, receive prizes, but the animals themselves; various privileges are conferred upon them--a...
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