The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (142 page)
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Almanac
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Especially in China, an annually published lunar calendar containing weather and harvest prognostications, lucky and unlucky days, festival dates and birthdays of the gods, moral maxims, and, most thumbed, a variety of fortune-telling systems. In the West, almanacs were originally connected with
astrology
, suggesting a rational order in the cosmos.
astrology
, suggesting a rational order in the cosmos.
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