Thanksgiving is a harvest time festival with corollaries in past civilizations. 

Topics include: Thanksgiving holiday, turkey, meal, holiday myths, Mayflower, Plymouth Rock, pilgrims, symbolism of agriculture and cultivation, civilization, tribal life, harvest Winter and death, stones as foundation of work, Native Americans, reckoning time for American history, corn, Demeter and Persephone, Eleusinian Mysteries, seasons, nature, Classical Civilization, rise and fall of civilizations, comparative religion, general discontent part of larger alchemical process, destruction, shared experience, cooperation, China protests, global wave of nationalism