{"product_id":"the-mythology-of-americas-seasonal-holidays-the-dance-of-the-horae-9783030469153","title":"The Mythology of America's Seasonal Holidays: The","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery year we celebrate a cycle of seasonal holidays. The ancient Greeks called this cycle “The Dance of the Horae,” after the mythical divinities who represented the seasons. What myths sit at the foundation of our own holiday celebrations? This interdisciplinary book explores the myths and symbols that underlie our major seasonal holidays and give them their meaning. Arthur George also shows how America’s own mythmaking has shaped some holidays. This mythological approach reveals how and why holidays arose in the first place, how and why they have changed over the centuries, why they have remained important, and finally how we can celebrate them today in a more meaningful manner that can enrich our lives and better our society. George devotes particular attention to the depth psychological aspects of holidays and their corresponding myths, as well as to the insights of modern biblical scholarship for key holidays such as Easter and Christmas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1.      Introduction: Why We Have Holidays     \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Nature of Things Holy, Including Days\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Sociology and Psychology of Holidays\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Archetypal Ritual Traditions in Holidays\u003c\/p\u003e              The Development of Holidays in Pre-Literate Societies\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Inevitable Fate of Holidays and their Rituals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Structure of the Course of the Seasons and this Book    \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e2.      New Year’s Day: Creation Renewed and Re-lived\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHow Do We Decide When Is the New Year?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA Holiday of Recreation, Beginnings and Endings, and Transformations\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eArchetypal Patterns in New Year’s Rituals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNew Year’s Festivals in the Ancient World\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Babylon\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Egypt\u003c\/p\u003e              Israel\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Greece\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Rome\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNew Year’s in Post-Roman Europe\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eCeltic New Year’s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Effect of Christianization\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eNew Year’s in the British Isles\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Our New Year’s\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e3.      Groundhog Day: Prophecy, Rebirth, and Renewal\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhy We Celebrate February 2nd\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Original Meaning of the Holiday, and How it Came\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e to Involve a Groundhog\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMythology in the Film \u003ci\u003eGroundhog Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e4.      Valentine’s Day: How a Saint Became Eros\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEros in Ancient Greece\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eSaint Valentine\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMyth and Valentine’s Day Traditions\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e5.      Unmasking Carnival\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHolidays of Dissolution and Reversal\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAncient Greek Origins of Carnival\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRoman Origins of Carnival\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Origins of Carnival Time in the Roman Calendar\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Late-February Roman Festivals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Carnival in Europe and America\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e6.      Easter and Our Resurrection\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMyth and the Holiday’s Name\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMyth and the Original Eastertime Events\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Myth and the Passion of Christ\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Myth and the Resurrection of Christ\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Evolution of Easter in Europe     \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEaster Symbols\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Easter Eggs\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Easter Bunny\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Easter Lamb\u003c\/p\u003e              New Clothes and Easter Bonnets\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Easter Lilies\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Modern Mytho-Psychological Meaning of the Resurrection\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Evolution of the God Image\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Christ as a Symbol of the Self, and the Meaning of the Incarnation\u003c\/p\u003e              Christ’s Suffering\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Meaning of the Resurrection       \u003c\/p\u003e  7.      May Day: Beltane Fires and the May Queen-Goddess\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Goddess Mythology Behind May Day\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Bonfire Rituals of May Eve\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMay Day Maypole and Related Rituals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Return of the Goddess of May Day\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e8.      National Myth: The Goddess Behind America’s Independence Day\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Goddess Liberty in Ancient Times\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eMythical Women and Goddesses as Allegorical Personifications of Nations\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Female Personification of America\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e9.      Halloween: Eve of Transformation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eGreek and Roman Precedents\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Anthesteria in Athens\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Roman Festivals of the Dead\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEnter Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            All Saints’ Day\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            All Souls’ Day\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Celtic Mythical Background: Samhain\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Otherworld and its Inhabitants\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Samhain Myths and Rituals\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Transformational Communal Bonfire\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Feasting on Transformational Food\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Intoxication on Transformational Drink\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Divination\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Recitations of Poems and Reenactments of Myths\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            No Apparent Focus on Dead Ancestors\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Emergence of Halloween in Europe\u003c\/p\u003e  Halloween in North America\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHalloween and Transformation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e10.  Thanksgiving: Our American Mythmaking in Action\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Nature of the “First Thanksgiving”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Development of Thanksgiving Before 1841\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThanksgiving after the Rediscovery of the “First Thanksgiving”\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThanksgiving and Historical Myth\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e11.  Christmas: New Beginnings and the Birth of the Divine Child-Hero\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIs the Christmas Story a Myth?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhy Were the Infancy Myths Created?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Underlying Archetypal Mythology of the Christmas Story\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Jesus and the “Birth of the Hero” Motif\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Nature and Role of the Holy Spirit in Jesus’s Birth\u003c\/p\u003e  The Virginal Conception\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Star\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Magi, the Massacre of the Innocents, and the Flight to Egypt\u003c\/p\u003e  The Shepherds and Angelic Choir in Luke\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe Ending of Luke’s Infancy Story\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhy Did Christians Decide to Celebrate Jesus’s Birth with a Holiday, and to Hold it on December 25?\u003c\/p\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eHow Christmas Mythology and Ritual Evolved to What We Have Today\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            The Mythmaking behind St. Nicholas and Santa Claus\u003c\/p\u003e  The Evolution of Christmas Myth and Ritual in Europe and the United States\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e            Psychological and Modern Spiritual Aspects of the Christmas Myth\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                        The Holy Spirit and the Incarnation\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e                        The Birth of Jesus and the Divine Child Motif\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51021119586647,"sku":"9783030469153","price":17.24,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783030469153.jpg?v=1750785223","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mythology-of-americas-seasonal-holidays-the-dance-of-the-horae-9783030469153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}