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2 That is, it was necessary to add 1 more day to 364 in order to reach what for some people might have appeared to be the length of a year. ... Ancient calendar-makers seem to have interposed the day which had no month, and was therefore not counted as part of the year, between the first and last of their artificial 28-day months: so that the farmer's year lasted, from the calendar-maker's point of view, literally a year and a day ... ... Curiously (and synchronously) I notice a paper slip in the book which I recently borrowed from the University Library at Lund (Barthel) demanding me to return the book within 364 days. I have never before seen that limit in practice ... ... The expression 'within a year and a day' may have meant that the last day in such a year was December 30 with Sirius at the Full Moon, and with the following day 31 belonging as day zero in the following year - similar to how in the night of the New Moon she was invisible... ... one of the Natives [by the name 'Maroowahai'] swam off to her and insisted on coming on board the ship where he remained two nights and a Day. The first thing he did after coming on board, was to measure the length of the Ship by fathoming her from the Tafferl to the Stern and as he counted the fathoms we observed that he called the Numbers by the same names as they do at Otaheite, Nevertheless his Languish was in a manner wholy unintelligible to all of us ... ... The author of the Book of Enoch in his treatise on astronomy and the calendar also reckoned a year to be 364 days, though he pronounced a curse on all who did not reckon a month to be 30 days long ... As we can see the simple fact of 365 = 364 + 1 was an idea which generated (→) a swarm of offspring so to say. ... Night came, midnight came, and Tuu Maheke said to his brother, the last-born: 'You go and sleep. It is up to me to watch over the father.' (He said) the same to the second, the third, and the last. When all had left, when all the brothers were asleep, Tuu Maheke came and cut off the head of Hotu A Matua. Then he covered everything with soil. He hid (the head), took it, and went up. When he was inland, he put (the head) down at Te Avaava Maea. Another day dawned, and the men saw a dense swarm of flies pour forth and spread out like a whirlwind (ure tiatia moana) until it disappeared into the sky ...
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