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Friday, January 10, 2014

 
ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA

FESTIVALS- a festival is a day or series of days put aside mainly for religious observances. whether its occurance be casual or periodic, its ritual be grave or gay, carnal as in orgies of baal + astart, or spiritual, it is festival, holy day. as long as it is professedly held in the names of religion blah blah history "uncivilized" Juangs of bengal, the fuegians(fiji), + the adamanese. no good. blah blah ghost-propitiation sacrifice rig-veda, + zend-avesta, the pentateuch. lunar naga tribes of assam the karens, the parsees aryam, semetic nature, hindu sattras osiris, phrygian teuton il ostren, cewltic belteiri, scandanavian yule. mexican calendar, tezcatlipoca huitzilopochtli, tlaloc. peru- yutip-raymi, cusqni-rayini, citua. greek- attic-erechteus, hesiod. tarentines, gamelion, lenoea anthesterion authesteria diasia eleusinia, elaphebolion. pandia. munychia, delphinia, thargelion plyuteria, callyuteria skirophorion hekatombaion cronia panathenoea  metageition boedromia, nekusia, pyanepsion, oschophoria, chalkeia, athenoea, thesmophoria, apaturia. roman-  compitalia + LUPERCALIA, agonaliacarmentalia, faunalia quirinalia, feralia, terminalia, regifuiam, equiria matronalia anna perena, liberalia, agonalia, quinquatria, megalesia, cerealia, patilia, vinalia, robigalia, floralia, lemuria, ludi martiales,semosamcus, vestalia, quinquatrus minusculae, ludi apollinares--neptunalia, nemoralia, consulia, vulcanalia, ludi magni, meditrinalia, faunalia, equiria, epuluim jovioe, opsalia saturnalia, larentalian. jews- passover, feast of trumpets, purim. early christian- sundays ambrose's tiue saturday-whitsunday, epiphany blah blah blah mahometan- eid-es-sagheer, eid-el-kurban, ramadan, yom ashoora, el hoseyn. hindu + buddhist- dasahara + FESTIVUS!



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