Sept. 1 The new liturgical year
In the Eastern Orthodox Church / National R.A.K. (Random Act of Kindness) Day
(New Zealand) Hug a Kiwi near you. / Knowledge Day (Russia) / Teacher's Day
(Singapore) / Start of the season when oysters are fit to eat (when months
names contain an "R") / First day of Spring in Australia and New
Zealand. / Happy birthday World! Created 7524 years ago today, more or
less, at least according to the
Byzantine Empire. / All Aboard! Day Hogwart's Express departs from Platform 9
3/4, conveniently enough in the books this day is always a Sunday, every year!
/ and happy birthday Chickenboy! Also known as the Statue of Liberty of L.A.
Sept. 2 Working Mother’s Day (U.S.) Sure, give them a day, anything to avoid the topic of reasonable help with day care. / The song "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (go on try not to think of the tune now) was published on this date in 1830.
Sept. 3 Labor Day or Labour (U.S.) / Akwambo (Ghana) Path clearing festival where people symbolically clear a path to the village well where a priestess offers libations to the god of the well. / End Gender Discrimination Day (U.N.) A day to morn sexism. Morn sexism? As opposed to doing something about it? From the sounds some "pundents" on radio and basic cable are making I get the impression a lot of them are working for its return. / Uncle Sam's image was first used on this day in 1813, before that the main symbol for America was a hayseed looser called Brother Jonathon.
Sept 4 Ludi Magni festivals (Ancient Rome) which was made up a lot of greater and smaller festivals going from the 4th to the 19th! No doubt about the Romans were festival throwing maniacs! / Apache coming of age ceremony for girls. / Newspaper Carriers Day (U.S.) With the shrinking newspaper readership I wonder how long before this job goes the way of the Milkman? Come to think of it ARE there such people any more? I mean I live in a fairly large city and our paper is only published three times a week... can't be much money in flinging a paper onto someones roof only three days a week. hmmm...
Sept. 5 ???? Holidays?
Sept. 6 Stillborn Remembrance Day (in 39 of the United
States, as well as New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario & Nova Scotia in Canada )
Situa (Incan) Festival to ward off illness at the start of the rainy season.
After a day of fasting small amounts of their children's blood was taken and
mixed with cornmeal. Despite the historically of this and the present day
worries we have with West Nile fever,
there is still no word on Taco Bell coming
out with an El Nino Grandie in honor of this day.
Sept. 7 Grandparents Day (U.S.) / Father's Day (Australia) /
Festival of Durga (Hindu) / Neither Rain Nor Snow Day (U.S.) Which is not the
motto of the United States Post Office, which doesn't even really have a motto,
however most people think of it as starting with the line above and hence the
day. / Raggedy Ann is 97 years old today, while Google is 14 years old today. While not nearly as old, no one ever talks about Raggedy Anning someone.
Sept. 8 Theosophical Society founded 1875, are they still
around? / Feast of the First Stardate, it was on this day in 1966 that Star
Trek first aired on NBC in America. / Feast of Izzat "Might" (Bahai)
International Literacy Day / International Goose Day / Birth of Mary (Early
Christian tradition) / Wait a minute! They almost got that one past me, Geese
get their own day? Worldwide! Dogs and cats and horses don't get a day but
geese do? Heck chickens do more for us so where is Chicken day?!? Okay, there’s
Chickenboy’s birthday on the first, but you know what I mean.
Sept. 9 Kiku no Sekku "Chrysanthemum Day" Japan /
Wonderful Weirdo’s Day (U.S) Everyone knows at least one weirdo, today you're supposed
to thank them for thinking outside the box. / Grandparent's Day (U. S) / Teddy
Bear Day (U.S.)
Sept.10 Festival of the Poets (Japan) / World Suicide
Prevention Day / Teacher's Day (China) / Day of the Child (Honduras) / Swap
Ideas Day (U.S.) / On this day in 1954 Swanson sell its first T.V. Dinner, it's
time to either thaw it out and eat it, or throw it away, nah… I’ll let it be
just a little longer.
Sept. 11 Patriots Day
/ No News is Good News Day /Jinnah Day (Pakistan) / Birthday of the founder of
Nichiren Buddhism (Japan) / Enkutatash (Ethiopia) or Coptic New Year /
Beheading of John the Baptist (Eastern Orthodox) / Latin American Teacher's Day
(U.S.)
Sept. 12 National Chocolate Milkshake Day / National Pet
Memorial Day / Video Games Day, all in the U.S. / It was on this day in 1823
that John Smith claims that he was contacted by the angel Moroni and given the
book of Mormon.
Sept. 13 All-Soul's Day (Ancient Egypt) day when the Goddess
Nepthys was honored. / Scooby Doo Where Are You? Premiers this day in 1969,
which in dog’s years would make Scooby......... Dead.
Sept. 14 The Exaltation of the Holy and Life-giving Cross
(Eastern Orthodox Church) / The Feast of Lights (Ancient Egypt) Fires were left
burning all night before images of the Gods and the tombs of the dead. / Secret
rites of Goddess Demeter start (Ancient Greece) / National Cream-filled Donut
Day. (U.S.) Dunkin Donut has made their main product trans -fat free, so eating
them will still be like punching your general health in the jaw, but at least
you won't be wearing brass knuckles anymore when you do it. / In 1306 King
Phillp IV of France draws up the orders to arrest the Templers resulting in a
lot of history, some of which actually happened.
Sept. 15 Rosh Hashanah (Judaism) Starts a Sundown. / Second day of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Ancient
Greece) Day the priests of Demeter declared the public start of the rites after
the secret ones started yesterday, I didn't tell you about those? Sorry, they
were secret. / Someday (U.S.) You know how you say "someday I'll start
that novel," "someday I'll lose that weight," "someday I'll
get that divorce" well today is "someday," deal with it. /
Engineer's Day (India)
Sept. 16 Independencia de Mexico (Mexican "Independence Day" / National Kids Day (U.S.) So you see despite what your mother told about "every day being kids day" there actually IS one! / Women's Friendship Day / Stepfamily Day / Trail of Tears Commemoration Day (U.S.)
Sept. 17 Respect For the Aged Day (Japan) Held the 3rd
Monday in September. / Citizenship Day (U.S.) / Constitution Day, The US Constitution
completed, and approved, 1787.
Sept. 18 Hartalika
Teej Vrat (Hindu) ritual performed by Hindu women dedicated to Goddess Parvati,
by observing the ritual, unmarried women believe that they will get a husband
like Lord Shiva while married women believe they will be blessed with a good
family life. / Feast of Genius (French
Revolution) / National Play-doh Day (U.S.) Did you know there seems to be a
cologne that has the scent of play-doh
Sept. 19 Ganesha Chaturthi (Hindu) Day to honor Ganesh the remover of obstacles. / Thoth's Day (Ancient Egypt) according to the Alexdrian
calendar this was an all-day fast in honor of Thoth God of wisdom. / National
Butterscotch Pudding Day. (U.S.) which is a bit of a misnomer as butterscotch
means a butter candy that has been scotched or "scored, cut, or
marked" and it's kind of hard to do that with pudding. / On Sesame Street
it's Slimy the Worm's birthday.
Sept. 20 World Wide Wife Appreciation Day / National Fruit
Punch Day.
Sept. 21 International Banana Festival / Christ's Hospital
Founder's Day (England) give it to the Brits to come up with a reason to party!
Sept. 22 Autumn Equinox First Day of Fall /autumn. /Ostara /
Mabon. (Wiccan) Festival in honor of the Welsh god Mabon son of the Goddess
Modron, though it has also been attributed to Queen Mab of the Fay. / Alban
Elfred (Druid) / Higan (Japan) Meaning, the Other Shore or Heaven. Day to honor
the dead. / Chusok (Korea) / Elephant
Appreciation Day / Hobbit Day, being the birthdays of both Frodo and Bilbo
Baggins.
Sept. 23 Sh’ bun no hi (Japan) Japanese Autumnal Equinox day
/ Winter Finding (Asatru) Sacred to Frey / Mikeli (Ancient Latvia) / Celebrate
Bisexuality Day (here and there in America, Canada, Australia etc¡*) As Woody
Allen said the main good point about bisexuality is that it doubles your
chances of finding a date for Saturday night. / The Planet Neptune was
discovered this day in 1846.
Sept. 24 Our Lady of Walsingham (England) Yow and I still
haven't recovered from Christ's Hospital Founder's day on the 21st! / Feast of
Osiris (Ancient Egypt) The approaching planting season was marked by a feast in
honor of the death and rebirth of Osiris. / Feast of Obatala, Orisha of Peace
and Justice. (Yoruba, Santeria) Celebrated with drumming, ecstatic dancing,
& possession trances. / "Bullwinkle and Rocky" premiers, 1961.
Sept. 25 National Comic Book Day (U.S.) No, not free comic
book day, this is something else and much earlier this year… for this you have
to buy your own comics sorry / Festival of Neter Amen-Ra-Atem, the Great God,
and Neteret Amenet-Rait-Mut, the Great Goddess. (Ancient Egypt) / "Rocky
Horror Picture Show" premiers, 1975, wow, 37 years ago, can you do the
Time Warp with a walker?
Sept. 26 Yom Kippur (Jewish) Starts at Sundown. / Feast of Santa Justina (Mexico)
Sept. 27 Native American Day (U.S) Held the forth Friday in September. / Birthday of Confucius in 551 BCE. / Uronica (Ancient Scotland) Day to honor Uronica Breton Goddess of heather and heather wine. You can make wine from heather? Hmmmm... What do you serve it with, haggis?
Sept. 28 Mid-Autumn Festival (China) Also known as the Moon
Festival, said to be the birthday of the Moon. / Ask a Stupid Question Day
(U.S.) Remember there are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
Sept. 29 Feast of Orisha Eleggua (Yoruba, Santeria) Intercessor and Ruler of Destinies. / Michael and All Angels. (Catholic) or as it is also known as Michaelmas / Poisoned Blackberries Day. (U.S.) An old Scottish belief said that the devil went around peeing on blackberries the night before this day, and you wouldn’t want to eat that would you?
Sept. 30
Feast of Shango (Yoruba, Santeria) Orisha of Passion and Virility. / National
Mud Pack Day (U.S.) / the year 124, at least according to Friederich Nietzche,
who in his book The Anti-Christ declared September 30th, 1888 to be the
"the day of salvation, on the first day of the Year One." Sure Fred
whatever.
I find a big bunch of blackberries I'm going to buy them and eat them!
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