Saturday, November 24, 2012
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
November: Holidays & Days of Note
Nov. 1 All Saints Day. / Dia De Los Muertos (Mexico) The Day
of the Dead / It was on this day that Claudius poisoned Hamlet's dad by pouring
poison in his ear, starting a trend making November a particularly good month
for conspiracies.
Nov. 2 Day of the Dead (Haiti) / National Deviled Egg Day
(U.S.)
Nov. 3 Housewife's Day (U.S.) / Bunka no hi (Japan) Culture
Day for promotion of culture and love for freedom and peace. / Sandwich Day
(U.S.)
Nov. 4 Daylight Savings Time Ends / It was on this day 1871
that Alice went through the looking glass. / In 1954 Gojira premiers in Japan,
an anti-atom bomb film in which the bomb is metaphorically represented by a 150
tall fire breathing monster. This message, along with over 20 minutes of
content were removed and replaced with footage of Raymond Burr when it appeared
in America in 1956 as Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
Nov. 5 Guy Fawkes Night (England)
Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.
Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,
'Twas his intent.
To blow up the King and the Parliament.
Three score barrels of powder below.
Poor old England to overthrow.
By God's providence he was catch'd,
With a dark lantern and burning match
Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring
Holloa boys, Holloa boys,
God save the King!
Hip hip Hoorah!
Hip hip Hoorah!
A penny loaf to feed ol' Pope,
A farthing cheese to choke him.
A pint of beer to rinse it down,
A faggot of sticks to burn him.
Burn him in a tub of tar,'
Burn him like a blazing star.
Burn his body from his head,
Then we'll say: ol' Pope is dead
Nov. 6 Saxophone Day (U.S.) And the other musical
instruments get their days when?
Nov. 7 Mayan Day of the Dead.
Nov. 8 Fuigo Matsuri (Shinto) Festival in honor of Hettsui
no Kami Goddess of the kitchen range.
Nov. 9 Kristallnacht Night (1938) The night of the Nazi
attacks on Jewish homes, synagogues, and shops in Germany started, which today
has been turned into a night for meditating on the evil of all religion based
hatred. / Quatuor Coronati (Freemason)
Nov. 10 Tree Festival (Tunisia) / Festival for the Goddesses
of Reason, Liberty & Philosophy (Revolutionary France 1793) which some say
never really happened but was disinformation spread by pro-royalists.
Nov. 11 Remembrance Day (Canada, England and others) The
tradition is to observe a minute of silence at 11:00 am on this day to remember
the dead of World War I. / Martinmas (Old Scotland) The feast of St. Martin. A
day to "enjoy" a dish of haggis. To quote Mike Myers character in So
I Married An Ax Murderer "I think most Scottish cuisine started out as a
dare." But seriously, just where are the haggis frozen dinners in my local
grocery? My guess would be right under the liver & onion dinners. /
Halloween under the old calendar. / Fast for Balder thru the 17th (Old
Anglo-Teutonic) Marking Hod (God of Darkness) unintentionally killing Balder
(God of Light), and his true love Nanna (Goddess of Flowers) dying of a broken
heart. The dead were honored.
Nov. 12 Veterans Day (U.S.)
/ Tesuque Feast Day (Native American) / Lha Bab Duchen (Tibetan
Buddhist) Day to celebrate the Buddha's descent from heaven after teaching the
Dharma there. / The start of November under the old calendar.
Nov. 13 Festival of Jupiter (Ancient Rome)
Nov. 14 Children's Day (India) / Operating Room Nurse Day
(U.S.) Which reminds me, do you know what the 5 levels of cleanliness are?
5. Guy clean.
4. Girl clean.
3. Mom clean.
2. Operating room clean
&
1. Grandmother clean.
Nov. 15 Shichigosan '7 - 5 - 3' (Japan) Children's festival.
/ National Teddy Bear Day (U.S.) I've read that more people are killed each
year by teddy bears (button eyes stuck in throats, allergic reactions to
materials) than by real bears. Of course real bears don't kill a lot of people.
/ It was on this date in 1966 in Point Pleasant, West Virginia that two young
couples reported to Mason County sheriff's department that they have had a
curious encounter with a something or other that would come to be called the
Moth-Man.
Nov. 16 Icelandic Language Day or Dagur íslenskrar tungu
(Iceland) / International Day for Tolerance (International)
Nov. 17 Queen Elizabeth's Day (England) Not the current one
Elizabeth I that is... back long in the long ago It had been usual to observe
the anniversary of the accession of Queen Elizabeth with rejoicings; and hence 'Queen Elizabeth's Day;' but after the great
fire, these rejoicings were converted into a “satirical saturnalia of the most
turbulent kind.”
Nov. 18 Occult Day (U.S.). Look as I might the meaning for
this day
remains......
wait for it.......
............................ occult.
Nov. 19 Pencil Day. The modern pencil first appears in 1895
/ Pop Tarts are one year away from being 50 years old as of today, at first they
were called "Country Squares.”
Nov. 20 Shakyamuni or Siddhartha Buddha Day (Tibetan
Buddhist) Day to meditate on the Buddha's teachings and strive to fulfill the
Precepts.
Nov. 21 World Hello Day (mostly world wide) The objective of
World Hello Day is to promote world peace. The theme of this day is "Greet
ten people for peace". It is really easy to participate in World Hello Day.
Simply, say hello to the people today. And, voice your concern for world peace.
/ Repentance Day (Germany)
Nov. 22 Thanksgiving
Day (U.S.) And for breakfast that first Thanksgiving the Pilgrims served boiled
eel, explaining the popularity of Thanksgiving D I N E R.
Also
Remember, remember, the 22 of November,
The Daly Plaza Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why the Daly Plaza Treason Should ever
be forgot.
But I'll tell you this right now about that shot
It will be long forgotten before we know the real reason.
/ Noumenia (Ancient Greek) Festival honoring all the Gods
and Goddesses.
Nov. 23 Kinro kansha no hi 'Labor Thanksgiving Day' (Japan)
A national holiday for honoring labor. / National Cashew Day (U.S.)
Nov. 24 Feast of the Burning Lamps (Egypt)
Nov. 25 Feast of Oya (Yoruba / Santeria) Feast of Oya,
Orisha of Wind, Storm, and Sudden Change. / Feast of Aphrodite and Eros
(Ancient Greek) Day to honor love and passion. / National Parfait Day (U.S.)
"I don't know nobody who don't like a parfait, I think it's the perfect
food!" Donkey from Shrek.
Nov. 26 Festival of Lights (Tibetan)
Nov. 27 Pie in the Face Day (U.S.)
Nov. 28 Day of the New Dance (Tibetan) / Bodhisattva White
Tara Day. (Tantric Buddhist) Time for meditation on White Tara, who guides the
dead to Buddha Amitabha's Pure Land, where all will find salvation.
Nov. 29 Square Dance Day (U.S.) People still do that?
Nov. 30 Stay at Home Because You're Well Day (.U.S.) Sure,
whatever.....
And don't forget National Teddy Bear Day on the 15th
Friday, October 19, 2012
For Durga
Piety marks 'Sharadiya Navaratra'
The Times of India: "The primeval force is worshipped in the form of nine plants (navapatrika) wrapped in a red sari. This is placed on an earthen pot, which is known as 'Kalash Sthapana', before commencing the 'path' of Durga Saptasati. Some devotees especially read the 'Sundarkand' as it is believed that Lord Ram killed Ravana on the conjunction of mahashtami and mahanavami - the Sandhikshan - and cremated on Vijaya Dashmi."
For the rest go to
Sharadiya Navaratra
Sunday, September 30, 2012
October: Holidays & Days of Note
Oct. 1 World Vegetarian Day / Children's Day (Singapore.) /
National Day (People's Republic of China)
Oct. 2 Birthday of Hanuman the Monkey God (Singapore) / Ludi
Augustales (Ancient Rome) / Gandhi
Jayanti, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi in 1869 (India) / International Day of
Non Violence, Cross your fingers / Old Man's Day (Virgin Islands) / Peanuts
comic strip first published In 1950. / Twilight Zone premiers, 1959.
Oct. 3 Gae-chun-joi `National Foundation Day ( South Korea)
When, according to legend the Korean Kingdom was founded in 2333 BCE / Techies
Day ( U.S.) So get the guy that fixes your computer at work a new pocket
protector. - 6: Thesmophoria (Anicent Greek) Festival commemorating the
transformation of Kore (Queen of the Living) into the goddess Persephone. / Captain Kangaroo first aired on
this day in 1955.
Oct. 4 National Golf Day (U.S.) / World Wide Animal Day /
National Cinnamon Bun Day (Sweden)
Oct. 5 World Teachers Day / Lee National Denim Day. Women wear denim to support awareness of
breast cancer. Held the first Friday in October.
National Cinnamon Bun Day
Oct. 6 Mad Hatter Day (Geeks) the date was picked because
the Mad Hatter wears a top hat on the front of which a slip of paper with reads
"10/6." So its like... important, or something... right? / Dedicattion of the Virgin's Crown (England) I don't know,
somehow that just doesn't sound British to me. / Labour Day (South Australia)
In other words October the 6th is Australian for Labor day. / In the Lord of
the Rings it was on this day that Frodo was stabbed by one of the Black Riders
on Weathertop.
Oct. 7 World Smile Day. The intent of World Smile Day is to
do an act of kindness, or help one person to smile this day. / Mindfulness Day
(Zen Buddhist)
Oct. 8 Columbus Day (observed)/ Wallpaper Day (U.S.) Hangul
or Alphabet Day (South Korea) Celebrating the invention of Hangul, the native
Korean phonetic alphabet.
Oct. 9 Curious Events Day (U.S. ) / Leif Erikson Day (For
those who say Leif was the first European to reach America.
Oct. 10 Festival of Bodhisattva (Mahayana Buddhist)
celebrates Kuan Yin's attainment of Bodhisattvahood. / Taiiku no hi
'Health-Sports Day' ( Japan) / Double Tenth Day / National Day (Taiwan) /
Wildlife Day (U.S.)
October 20th is / Brandied Fruit Day, so don’t eat fruit and drive
Oct. 11 Emergency Room Nurses Day (U.S.) / Coming Out Day / and It was on this day in 1974 that two
fishermen in Pascagoula Mississippi claimed they were levitated onto a UFO by
an alien that looked like the unholy love child of Dr. Zoidburg & Bender
the Robot.
Oct. 12 Indigenous Peoples Day / Columbus Day (the day they
say it happened) Day to celebrate when Indians discovered this Italian fellow
on their beach. / Free Thought Day (U.S.) / Crowleymas (Thelema) for
Alister Crowley's Birthday in 1875.
Oct. 13 Thanksgiving (Canada) / Columbus Tells a Lie Day. It
was discovered that Columbus' ships really landed on the 13th of October 1492, he was persuaded by Dutch sailor Piet
de Stuini (or DeStynie) to change it to the 12th in the logs because he said
that the number 13 might frighten sailors and future investors away. An Italian
study group called the Colombiani
detected this change. / Fontinaia (Ancient Rome) Fontinaia was the Roman festival
for the veneration of holy wells, springs & fountains.
Oct. 14 Feast of Pokrov
(Russian Orthodox) pokrov means veil and strangely enough
commemorates the belief that in the 9th
century Constantinople was saved by the
protecting veil of Mary, the attackers? Russians. / Battle Festival
(Japan)
Oct. 15 Cayenne Holiday ( French Guiana) / Teacher's Day in
Brazil

National Bologna Day is October the 24th.... why not?
Oct. 16 Boss's Day ( U.S.) / School Librarian Day (U. S. ) / World Food Day / National Feral Cat Day ( U.S.) So if you happen to work in a library where the boss is a feral cat and you like to eat THIS is your day!
Oct. 17 Wear Something Gaudy Day ( U.S.) / Hawkes Bay
Anniversary (New Zealand) / Black Poetry
Day (U.S.) / International Day for the Eradication of Poverty / Shoe Size Day
(U.S.) I'm not even going to make a sarcastic guess about the reason for this
one.
Oct. 18 Alaska Day
(U.S.) / World Toy Camera Day (International) Despite all the smart phones and
digital camera this is still a going thing.
Oct. 19 Person's Day ( Canada) / Birth of the Bab (Baha'i) /
Evaluate Your Life Day (U.S.) No thanks, everybody puts denial down, but it can
be a force for good too.
Oct. 20 Khalkeia (Ancient Greek) Festival honoring Goddess
Athena and God Hephaistos for the gifts of their wisdom and crafts. /
Brandied Fruit Day (U.S.) Day for
honoring fruit for the fact that is may have been brandied. It was on this date in 1955 that The Return
of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
Oct. 21 Sweetest Day (U.S.) Held the 3rd Sunday in October
it is a day to do good deeds for the underprivileged and forgotten. / Feast of
the Black Christ / Apple Day / Overseas Chinese Day (China) Is this held in
China for those overseas or overseas? If they are doing it in China for those
overseas it seems kind of pointless as they are overseas and not there to enjoy
it, just wondering / Trafalgar Day (England.)
Oct. 22 Kuan Yin or Goddess of Mercy Day (Chinese) / Labour
Day (New Zealand) Again with another labor day! As this day is about labor
could we like, I don't know, organize it or something so it's not all over the
place? / Shakyamuni Buddha Day (Tibetan Buddhists) Day to meditate on the
Buddha's teachings and strive to fulfill the Precepts.
Oct. 23 Feast of Hecate (Ancient Greek) / Chulalongkorn Day
(Thailand). Annual commemoration of King Chulalongkorn who abolished slavery in
Thailand in 1910. None the less there was a news story recently about thousands
of Thai nationals being held in what could only be called slavery..... however
as this was taking place in the United States I guess it doesn't count. / Mole
Day (Chemist in America… no really) an unofficial holiday celebrated among
chemists in North America between 6:02 AM and 6:02 PM, making the date 6:02
10/23 in the American style of writing dates. The time and date are derived
from the Avogadro constant, which is approximately 6.022×1023, defining the
number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a "mole," one of the
seven base SI units… whatever the hell those are.
Oct. 24 United Nations Day (International) / Dussehra or
Dassera or Vijayadashmi (Hinduism) Triumph of good over evil festival /National
Bologna Day (U.S.) Or as some call it, Texas stake. / Maimakterion Noumenia
(Ancient Greek) Festival honoring all the Gods and Goddesses, Flutes were
played; prayers were said; offerings of barley, olive oil, incense, food was
burned in an offering hearth; and libations of water and wine were made. /
Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives in Green Town, Illinois.
Something Wicked This Way Comes. Ray Bradbury.
Oct. 25 Eid-al-adha
(Islam) starting as sunset. / Thanksgiving Day (Grenada) commemorates Invasion
of Grenada / Thanksgiving Day (Virgin Islands)
Oct. 26 National Pumpkin Day (U.S.)
Oct. 27 Navy Day (U.S.)
Oct. 28 Mother-in-Law's Day ( U.S.) Insert lame joke by old
school Catskills comic here. / Ochi
(Greek) Greek for "No" which is what they told Hitler when he tried
to occupy Greece / Separation of Church & State Day (U.S.) It was nice
while it lasted / Chocolate Day (U.S.) / Isia (Ancient Egypt ) First day of a 6
day ceremony that commemorates Isis' search for the dismembered parts of
Osiris. / Reformation Day (Lutheran)
Oct. 29 Feast of the Dead. (Iroquois) / Internet Day
Oct. 30. Fast of the Bodhisattva, Goddess Tara (Tibetan
Buddhists) / Haunted Refrigerator Night (Huh?) A “holiday” that was created and
owned by copyright by a Thomas
& Ruth Roy, therefore I will say no more about it / The
delegations from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at Hogwarts. In Harry Potter
and the Goblet of Fire.
Oct. 31 Halloween ( U.S. Canada and some other places) /
Samhain (Pagan) Australia, South America & Sub Sahara Africa, you're on
your own as to what to call it. / Allantide (Cornwall)
Saturday, September 1, 2012
September: Holidays & Days of Note
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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