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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> 1365<br />

December 22<br />

fixed holy days<br />

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

Abet Offerings:<br />

Abet Offerings: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Invocation, offerings in your house to Spirits.<br />

Make abet offerings to the Deities.<br />

Asar Returns:<br />

Asar Returns: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Asar [Osiris] returns to Aset [Isis].<br />

Celebration of light.<br />

Festival of the Stars:<br />

Festival of the Stars: Celtic/Druid holy day. Festival of the Stars.<br />

Mithra’s Birthday:<br />

Mithra’s Birthday: Persian holy day. Mithra’s Birthday. Celebration of light.<br />

La Viecchio de Natali:<br />

La Viecchio de Natali: Sicilian holy day. La Viecchio de Natali. Celebration of light.<br />

Yule:<br />

Yule: Wiccan holy day. Wiccan Sabat of Yule, or Winter Solstice, the rebirth of light, the<br />

Sun Child (the winter-born God-King, sometimes represented as Heru, twin brother of<br />

Bast), symbolizing the rebirth of the sun and the promise of new life in the spring. In some traditions<br />

celebrated on December 21st or December 25th.<br />

Grand Ceremony of the Winter Solstice:<br />

Grand Ceremony of the Winter Solstice: Shinto holy day. The Grand Ceremony of<br />

the Winter Solstice celebrates the end of the yin period of the sun (when it declines in<br />

power) and the beginning of the sun’s yang period (when it grows in strength).<br />

Halcyon <strong>Days</strong>:<br />

Halcyon <strong>Days</strong>: Greek holy day. December 14-28 are the Halcyon <strong>Days</strong>, the seven days before and<br />

after Yule, a time of calm and tranquility derived from Alcyone, a Greek Goddess of the Pleiades<br />

connected with Artemis [Bast] and Aphrodite [Het Heret].<br />

Sixth Day of Saternalia:<br />

1365 of 1413 7/14/08 9:29 AM

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