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<strong>World</strong> <strong>Religious</strong> <strong>Calendar</strong> 22<br />

January 4<br />

fixed holy days<br />

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

<strong>Pr</strong>oceeding of the Goddesses:<br />

<strong>Pr</strong>oceeding of the Goddesses: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. Day of the Goddesses of<br />

Heaven (Nuit and Raet) proceeding southward.<br />

Martyrs of Independence: Zaire holy day.<br />

Martyrs of Independence:<br />

Cassé Gâteau:<br />

Cassé Gâteau: Voodou holy day (January 2-4). Breaking of the Cakes. Tradtitional three day<br />

celebration in Haiti where Vodou practitioners make a communal offering of food (Mange Loa) to the<br />

Loas.<br />

Black Nazarene Fiesta:<br />

Black Nazarene Fiesta: Philippino holy day. Black Nazarene Fiesta in Manila, the Philippines<br />

(January 1-9).<br />

Aquarian Tabernacle Church:<br />

Aquarian Tabernacle Church: Aquarian Tabernacle Church (ATC) registered in<br />

Australia by Lady Tamara Von Forslun on January 4, 1994, becoming the first Wiccan<br />

church to be recognized in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The ATC was founded as a coven in<br />

Western Washington (USA) by Pete “Pathfinder” Davis on Samh’ain (October 31) 1979.<br />

St. Elizabeth’s Day:<br />

St. Elizabeth’s Day: Christian holy day. Elizabeth Seton; first American canonized;<br />

American Christian saint.<br />

holy days 2007 and 2008<br />

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

Maidyarem:<br />

Maidyarem: Zoroastran holy day. ‘mid-year’ or winter 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 />

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