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A South Indian harvest-festival setting illustrating how agricultural seasons become religious and communal calendars

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Why Did Harvest Calendars Become Religious Calendars?

Sowing and harvest once structured food, labour, taxation and survival, so agricultural timing frequently became ritual timing. Tradivior will examine when religion preserved ecological scheduling and when later meanings took…