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World Religious Calendar 902
August 13
fixed holy days
These holy days are on the same day every year on the solar calendar.
Feast of Hecate:
Feast of Hecate: Greek holy day. Also Roman, Egyptian, and Wiccan holy days.
Hecate’s Supper: Greeks would leave a small meal offering (called “Hecate’s Supper”) at statues of
Hecate at crossroads during the middle of the night on the eve of a Full Moon. After leaving the
offering, they would walk away without looking back because no one was supposed to see Hecate face
to face.
Greek Festival of Hecate: Celebrated August 13 at moonrise by torchlight, the Festival of Hecate
was intended to avert late season storms from the Aegean that might destroy crops before harvest.
Roman Feast of Hecate: Celebrated the night of August 13 in conjunction with the Rites of Diana.
Wiccan Feast of Hecate: Celebrated at moonrise by torchlight on August 13, honoring Hecate as
Goddess of magick, Protectress of Witches, personification of the Moon (often combined with Diana
and Persephone), and representative of the dark side of feminiity.
Rites of Diana:
Rites of Diana: Roman holy day. The Rites of Diana was celebrated in conjunction with the Festival
of Hecate.
Day of Fighting:
Day of Fighting: Kemetic (ancient Egyptian) holy day. It is the day of Heru-sa-Aset fighting with
Seth.
Metageitnion Noumenia:
Metageitnion Noumenia: Greek holy day. The first day of the Greek month of Metageitnion.
According to Plutarch (Mor. 828A), the Noumenia (the first day of each Greek month) are “the holiest
of days”.
According to Jon D. Mikalson (in “The Noumenia and Epimenia in Athens”, The Harvard
Theological Reviews, Vol. 65, No. 2, April, 1972, page 291), “In an ordinary year there were twelve
Noumeniai, and thus they form a large and important series of “holy” days. There is no indication in the
sources that the religious activities on the Noumenia of one month varied from those of another month,
and therefore the Noumeniai may be treated as a single homogenous group.
“The strictmess with which the Athenians preserved the sanctity and the independent identity of the
Noumenia is striking. No annual religious festival is attested to have occurred on the Noumenia or to
have included it. Not one of the positvely dated meetings of Athenian legislative assemblies such as the
Ekklesia, the Boule, or a tribal organization is attested to have occurred on the first day of a month.”
Puck Fair:
Puck Fair: Irish holy day. Third day of the three day Puck Fair, an Irish fertility festival. The
medieval festival pays homage to Robin Goodfellow, a mischievous Irish sprite.
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