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To: bentway who wrote (252881)	6/15/2014 10:15:30 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 540836

My guess is, fasting began to work out quite nicely in an organized fashion, to take pressure off dwindling food supplies. As such, you'd expect fasting to be most prevalent at times when the food supply is low. I don't think I remember many fasts that occur during harvest times. Most of them seem to be in lean times- which would make sense. Social evolution would dictate that. Although once people started colonizing the globe, and moving to different time zones, it would get muddied- since they'd be on the old calendar, and if they moved to the antipodes, they'd basically be seasonally out of touch with the reason for their fasting. But old habits tend to linger long after the need for them is gone.

To: bentway who wrote (252881)	6/15/2014 10:58:30 PM
From: Katelew	Respond to of 540836

LOL...they certainly look like fasters, don't they? Unfortunately, we don't have written records of what they thought about much of anything. I don't study comparative religion and their evolutionary histories like I once did, and I'm sure there's much info out there that I would enjoy. The lack of written record always pained me, though, when I did. I'd really like to know more about the transition from multiple deities and pagan practices to a single God...what people were thinking.