The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain
Ronald Hutton. . Oxford University Press, 1996, xx + 542 pp..
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The indispensable single book on the British ritual year and its documented customs.
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- Beltane
- For the May customs of Britain and Ireland, their earliest documentation, and the separate history of the maypole.
- Cross-Quarter Days
- For the fixed calendar dates in the British and Irish record and for the customs attached to them.
- Imbolc
- For the calendar customs of early February in Britain and Ireland and their documented dates.
- Lughnasadh
- For the British Lammas material and for an assessment of MacNeill's continuity argument.
- Mabon
- For the documented British harvest customs, which are attached to the harvest home rather than to the equinox.
- Midsummer and St John's Eve
- For the documentary history of the British midsummer fires and for the earliest records of the custom.
- Samhain
- The examination of the early Irish material, the All Saints chronology, and the documented early modern customs.
- Solstices and Equinoxes
- For the documented British ritual year and the absence of equinox observance.
- The maypole
- For the May customs of Britain, their earliest documentation, the civic sponsorship and suppression of the maypole, and its separate history from the Gaelic quarter-day.
- The Wheel of the Year
- For the documented British ritual year the components are drawn from.
- Yule
- For the documented history of the midwinter customs of Britain.