Isa. i, 13; Numb.
xxviii, 11.

[400] Hastings, op. cit., ii, 555.

[401] Lev. xxiii, 33; Ps. lxxxi, 4 [3]. On the Sabbath as
perhaps full-moon day, see below, Sec. 608.

[402] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 449 ff.

[403] Buckley, in Saussaye's _Lehrbuch der
Religionsgeschichte_, 2d ed., p. 83.

[404] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, p. 677
ff.

[405] Lev. xxiii, 23 f.; Numb. xxix, 1 ff. The Hebrew text
of Ezek. xl, 1, makes the year begin on the tenth day of
some month unnamed; but the Hebrew is probably to be
corrected after the Greek. Cf. Nowack, _Hebraeische
Archaeologie_, ii, 158 f.

[406] Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, p. 278.

[407] Cf. A. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_ (1898), p. 55.

[408] J. W. Fewkes, "The Winter Solstice Ceremony at Walpi"
(in _The American Anthropologist_, xi).

[409] Prescott, _Peru_, i, 104, 127.

[410] A Saracen cult is described in _Nili opera quaedam_
(Paris, 1639), pp. 28, 117.

[411] Hollis, _The Nandi_, p. 100; Rivers, _The Todas_, p.
593 ff.; cf. Dorsey, _The Skidi Pawnee_, p. xviii f.;
Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, iii, 132 f.

[412] For some fasting observances in astral cults see
Westermarck, _Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas_,
ii, 312 f.

[413] As food is the most pressing need.

[414] Judg. ix, 27; Neh. viii, 10.

[415] A. Mommsen, _Feste der Stadt Athen_ (1898), Index,
s.vv.; Gardner and Jevons, _Greek Antiquities_, pp. 287 f.,
290, 292.

[416] Fowler, _Roman Festivals_, pp. 95 ff., 157 ff., 268
ff., 114, 124 ff., 241 ff.; cf. article "Mars" in Roscher,
_Lexikon_, col. 2416 f.

[417] Hopkins, _Religions of India_, p. 453 ff.

[418] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., iii, 78 f.

[419] A Babylonian festival of this sort (Sakea) is
mentioned by Athenaeus (in _Deipnosophistae_, xiv, 639) on the
authority of Berosus, and "Sakea" has been identified with
"zakmuk," the Babylonian New Year's Day (cf. the story in
Esth. vi); but the details of the festival and of the
Persian Sakaea (Strabo, xi, 8) are obscure.

[420] Lev. xxiii.

[421] see above, Sec. 128.

[422] Hollis, _The Nandi_, p. 46 f.

[423] Gatschet, _Migration Legend of the Creeks_, p. 177 ff.

[424] Cf. the ceremony of the pharmakos in the festival of
the Thargelia (Miss Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of
Greek Religion_, p. 95 ff.).

[425]