a="Sabbat, meaning rest coming from Hebrew through Greek and Latin into English, is a more correct word to use here than Sabbath which is forever associated with the Judeo-Christian tradition." b="Caste, from the Portugese 'casta' meaning ancestry or breeding, is here used as an alternative to class." c="i.e. heathen barbarians." d="Summarised from Joseph Campbell's 'The masks of God volume 1: Primitive mythology'." function opendef(def){ textWindow = window.open("", "Glossary", "width=400,height=100,left=0,top=0") textWindow.document.write("Glossary<\/TITLE><LINK REL='stylesheet' TYPE='text/css' HREF='http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.p.davies/Code/universalstyle.css'><\/HEAD>") textWindow.document.writeln(def) textWindow.focus() } function closedef(){ textWindow.close() }