Wooden calendar sticks have preserved an archaic time-keeping tradition, which, during the Middle Ages, was one of the tools for establishing and disseminating Christian chronology and the liturgical calendars of the Western and Eastern Churches. The calendars vary in size and shape, type of signs, and structure of the record. Christian symbols interwoven with signs and pictograms mark days of importance in the ritual and economic year cycle. The wooden calendars are considered one of the proofs of the syncretism between the pagan tradition and Christian rites in folk cultures.
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Koleva, V., & Koleva, S. (2015). Wooden calendar sticks in eastern Europe. In Handbook of Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy (pp. 1773–1780). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6141-8_181
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