If one begins with the phenomenology of consciousness one must give an account of the origin of material objects as they arise in conscious experience.

Legends about the origin of this festivity abound.

There are several possible origins for this superstition.

The reason I ask is, I wonder how much you have analyzed the origins and the contents of your own beliefs - where did they come from, what motivates them, what their impact is on your life.

And in November, a century and a half after On the Origin of Species was published, we commemorate the beginnings of the theory by which we all know him.