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September 8th
Weather today or tomorrow would determine the type of weather for the next forty days.
This is the Native American Pinnhut festival.
September 9th
Asclepigenia, priestess of the Greek Eleusinian Mysteries, was honored today.
September 11th
The three day celebration of Nichiren is held by the Japanese Buddhist sect in honor of its founder of the same name. He was an outspoken 13th century priest who angered the government. Arrested, he was sentenced to death by decapitation, but lightning struck the execution site. His sentence was reduced to exile on a nearby island. Freed from exile September 12, 1271, he spent the rest of his life teaching his form of Buddhism. During his celebration, his followers shout prayers while beating fan-shaped drums.
The Enkutatash is held in Ethiopia. Enkutatash means the “gift of jewels.” When the Queen of Sheba returned from visiting King Solomon in Jerusalem, her chiefs welcomed her by replenishing her treasury with inku or jewels. The spring festival has been celebrated since this early times and as the rains come to their abrupt end, dancing and singing can be heard at every village in the green countryside. Today’s Enkutatash is also the season for exchanging formal new year greetings and cards among the urban sophisticated – in lieu or the traditional bouquet of flowers.
Birthday of Silver RavenWolf.
September 12th
This day is dedicated to Astraea by the Greeks.
September 13th
The Egyptian All-Soul’s Day occurred on the 26th day of Paopi. This Festival of lighting the fires of Neith honored the goddess Nephthys or Nebthet, protectress of the dead, with fires. Fires were lit before the statues of the dead and the gods. The ceremony was accompanied by a general illumination which lasted all the night.
The Lectisternium was held in honor of the three Capitoline Deities. A festival of Greek origin, it was first ordered by the Sibylline books. From it’s beginning, a banquet was regularly offered to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, at which the Senate officiated, in conjunction with the plebeian games. The images of the three deities were dressed with curls, anointed, and garbed in colors. Jupiter was placed reclining on a cushion with a goddess seated on a chair on each side. Mars and Venus were always placed together.
September 14th
The Feast of Lights was an ancient Egyptian festival in which light were left burning all night before images of the gods and the tombs of the dead.
September 15th
According to the Chinese, this is the day the Moon was created.
This is the birthday of Henry Cornelius Agrippa in 1486.
Comments (1)
That sucks that the weather today will determine the weather for the next forty days. It’s really chilly and cloudy.
Hmm, world peace or 5 billion dollars? lol I really think I’d go with the 5 billion dollars. That sounds like the plot of a moralistic tale: Peter and James, the farmer’s sons, met a mysterious old lady on the road one day who offered each the choice between world peace and 5 billion pieces of gold. “I’ll take the gold!” Peter said. But James, the wiser of the two, said he’d rather have world peace. Peter ended up OD’ing on crack cocaine and left his twenty relatives, all very distant yet in need of financial hand-outs, to squabble over his will; while James fell in love with a beautiful girl, had ten children, and died happy and peaceful on his farm. The end.