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Pr Ntr Kmt World Religious Calendar Pagan Holy Days

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<strong>World</strong> <strong>Religious</strong> <strong>Calendar</strong> 1287<br />

November 28<br />

fixed holy days<br />

These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.<br />

Feast of Het Heret [Hathor] and Sekhmet:<br />

Feast of Het Heret and Sekhmet: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Feast of Het Heret [Hathor]<br />

and Sekhmet. Honors Het Heret [Hathor] as Sekhmet, Lioness, Sun Goddess, and Beer Goddess,<br />

getting drunk on red beer and returning to a gentle form.<br />

Day of <strong>Pr</strong>olonging Life:<br />

Day of <strong>Pr</strong>olonging Life: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Day of prolonging life and goodness<br />

of Ma’at; making beneficial Ma’at in the temple.<br />

Day of Sophia:<br />

Day of Sophia: Hebrew holy day. Day of Sophia. Goddess of Wisdom and Inner Truth.<br />

Hopi New Year:<br />

Hopi New Year: Hopi holy day. New Year. The most significant holy day in the Hopi calendar.<br />

Lasts four days.<br />

Ascension of "Abdul-Baha:<br />

Ascension of ’Abdul-Baha: Bahà’í holy day. ’Abdul-Baha, son of the founder of Bahà’í, died on<br />

this day in Haifa, Palestine, in 1921.<br />

Indepenence Day:<br />

Albanian Independence Day: Albanian (Albania) holiday.<br />

holy days 2007 and 2008<br />

These holy days are on different day each year on the solar calendar.<br />

Maidyoshahem:<br />

Maidyoshahem: Zoroastran holy day. ‘Mid-summer’ feast, one of the seven obligatory feasts of<br />

Zoroastrianism and one of the six gahanbars (or gahambars). The gahanbars date back to the<br />

pre-Zoroastrian agricultural people of the Iranian Plateau and mark the changing of the agricultural<br />

seasons. The gahanbars were absorbed into Zoroastrianism as religious holy days and are celebrated<br />

with feasting and fun.<br />

In the Fasli (seaonsal) calendar, Maidyoshahem is celebrated from June 29 to July 3. In the<br />

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