- fixed holy days (same date every year)
- Kemetic calendar
- Zoroastrian calendar
- Celtic Ogham tree calendar
- Roman calendar
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Festival of Bastet:
Festival of Bastet: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Festival of Bastet. One of four Festivals of Bast throughout the year. More than half a million young girls would gather at the Temple of Bast in Bubastis (the largest temple in the world for several thousand years) during the Festival of Bast with the intent of experiencing their first heterosexual intercourse. The girls, under the guidance of the priestesses of Bast, would get the young boys excited through holy erotic dance, masturbation, and lesbian sexual activity.
Heb Sed Festival:
Hed Sed Festival: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Heb Sed Festival.
Planting Festival:
Planting Festival: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Planting Festival.
Deepvali or Diwali:
Deepvali or Diwali: Hindu Indian holy day. Deepvali or Diwali, celebration of lights and the New Year, for Kali, the destroyer of evil.
Day of Hecate:
Day of Hecate: Greek holy day. Day of Hecate, honoring Hekate, originally a Kemetic Goddess.
Sadie Hawkins’ Day:
Sadie Hawkins’ Day: United States holiday. Sadie Hawkins’ Day. “From the cartoon strip Little Abner, the day in Dog Patch when the Women of Dog Patch chased down the single men. If they caught them they got to marry them.” — Ruth Lewallen
calendar
This day on different world calendars.
Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) information
Season of Proyet (Sowing - the emergence of the land and of green things)
Month of Tybi (Min)
Day 1
Zoroastrian information
(Fasli calendar)
Month of Adar (ninth month)
Day of Ohrmazd
Day 1
The day of Ohrmazd celebrates the Av. Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Wisdom and Zarathustra’s name for God. Special prayers from the Khorda Avesta are recited in honor of the day’s spiritual being.
Activity for the day from the Counsels of Adhurbadh, Son of Mahraspand: “(119) On the day of Ohrmazd drink wine and make merry.” Adarbad Mahraspandan was a famous saint, high priest, and prime minister of Shapur II (309-379 C.E.).
The first seven days (first week) of each Zoroastrian month celebrate Ahura Mazda and the Amesha Spentas (literally translated Beneficent Immortals). They are the highest spiritual beings created by Ahura Mazda.
The Fasli, or seasonal, calendar is one of three Zoroastrian calendars still in use.
Celtic (ancient Druid) information
Ogham tree calendar
Ngetal (Ng)
Reed Moon
Day 20
The Celtic calendar started out as a moon calendar, but was aligned with the solar year during antiquity. Robert Graves proposed the Celtic tree calendar described here. While widely used by Neo-Pagans, many critics dispute the authenticity. The Beth-Luis-Nion calendar (the one used here) starts with New Year on the Winter Solstice. The Beth-Luis-Faern calendar starts with New Year on Samhain.
Each Celtic tree month (or moon) is named for a Celtic Ogham letter (first line above) and a tree (second line above). All of the Celtic months also had additional folk names (folk names for this month listed below).
Polarity: Feminine
Planet: Pluto
Archetype: Pwyll, head of Annwyn
Symbol: stone
Folk Names:
Moon of the Home
Hearth Moon
Winter Moon
Moon which Manifests Truth
Asatru (ancient Norse) information
Month: Fogmoon
Roman information
a.d. XVI Kal. Dec.
16 days before the Kalends of December
Month: November
The a.d. XVI Kal. designation means ante diem or 16 “days before” the Kalends (first day or New Moon) of the next month. When counting days, the Romans included both the start and end day (in modern Western culture, we skip the start day). When the Romans switched to a solar calendar, they continued to use the lunar day names.
The Roman month of November is named for novem, because it was originally the ninth month of the Roman solar year November was sacred to Diana, Roman Goddess of the Moon.
The earliest Roman months were lunar. According to Roman mythology, the ten month solar calendar aligned to the vernal equinox was introduced by Romulus, the founder of Rome, around 753 BCE. In Romulus’ calendar, November (the ninth month) had 30 days. Numa Pompilius, the second of the seven traditional kings of Rome, added two more months, for a 12 month year. In Numa’s calendar, November had 29 days. Gaius Julius Caesar, as Pontifex Maximus (supreme bridge-builder, a religious title), reorganized the calendar on the first day of 45 BCE. In Caesar’s calendar (the Julian Calendar), November had 30 days. Caesar’s calendar was calculated by Sosigenes, an Egyptian astrologer/astronomer. In 8 BCE, Augustus Caesar fixed errors by pontiffs after Julius’ death and made other minor modifications, resulting in the modern Western calendar. The modern Gregorian Calendar, named for Roman Catholic Pope Gregory the Thirteenth, was a realignment in 1582.
numerology
Today totals 7 in modern Western numerology. See the article on seven for more information.
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