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is no longer true, owing to precession of the equinoxes<\/a>. The Romans sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog Days to appease the rage of Sirius, believing that the star was the cause of the hot, sultry weather.<\/p>\nDog Days were popularly believed to be an evil time “when the seas boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid, causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies” according to Brady\u2019s Clavis Calendarium,<\/em> 1813. [<\/span>1]<\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n In Ancient Rome, the Dog Days extended from July 24 through August 24 (or, alternatively July 23-August 23). ”<\/p>\n (Vega the wonder dog knows how to deal with the dog days.)<\/p>\n Let me see.\u00a0 The Dog Star rises.\u00a0 People are concerned.\u00a0 So they kill a dog?\u00a0 Hmmm.\u00a0 Seems backwards to me.\u00a0 Wouldn’t you want to care for the eponymous animal?\u00a0 See what they got.\u00a0 Another month of hot days anyway.\u00a0 Their religion needed a bit of empirical feed-back.<\/p>\n Off to the museum today for the China tour.\u00a0 Back for more thunderstorms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summer\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Grandchildren Moon The dog days.\u00a0\u00a0 A bit from Wikipedia: “The Dog Days originally were the days when Sirius rose just before or at the same time as sunrise (heliacal rising), which is no longer true, owing to precession of the equinoxes. The Romans sacrificed a brown dog at the beginning of the Dog … Continue reading Dog Days<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n