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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.15#0299
286 ASTRONOMY AND JEWISH FESTIVALS.
the epoch when the middle of the sign of Virgo
passes the sun by just the same interval as that by
which Christmas Day followed the mid-winter sol-
stice. However, it would take us too far to follow
out all the analogies which have been traced be?
tween solar myths and the fasts and festivals of
the modern calendar. Many of these are very doubt-
ful, and some are more than doubtful, whereas no
doubt whatever seems to rest on the astronomical
origin of the Jewish sacrificial observances.
the epoch when the middle of the sign of Virgo
passes the sun by just the same interval as that by
which Christmas Day followed the mid-winter sol-
stice. However, it would take us too far to follow
out all the analogies which have been traced be?
tween solar myths and the fasts and festivals of
the modern calendar. Many of these are very doubt-
ful, and some are more than doubtful, whereas no
doubt whatever seems to rest on the astronomical
origin of the Jewish sacrificial observances.