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The calendar has at all times played an important part in religion. In England down to the eighteenth century and in Russia down to the Revolution of 1917, an inaccurate calendar was perpetuated owing to the feeling that the Gregorian calendar was papistical. Similarly, the very inaccurate lunar calendars were everywhere advocated by priests devoted to the worship of the moon, and the victory of the solar calendar was slow and partial. In Egypt this conflict was at one time a source of civil war. One may suppose that it was connected with a grammatical dispute as to the gender of the word "moon", which has remained masculine in German down to the present day. Both sun worship and moon worship have left their traces in Christianity, since Christ's birth occurred at the winter solstice, while his resurrection occurred at the Paschal full-moon.
Source: Marriage and Morals, 1929
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