Today, Sardinians celebrate Sa die de sa Sardigna, Sardinia Day. After an insurrection, on April 28, 1794 his dii de s'aciappa took place. Piedmontese officials are being hunted down, to flush them out, the locals ask people to say "chickpea" (nara cixiri) in Sardinian, very difficult for continentals to say. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #April 28 #Sardinia #Sardigna
29April 29, 2025
30April 30, 2025●(1 event)
Walpurgisnacht
April 30, 2025
Today, Germanic and Saxon peoples celebrate Walpurgis Night. Saint Walpurga is said to have protected the German peoples from the plague, rabies, whooping cough and witches. This festival dates back to pre-Christian times and is said to be close to the Celtic festival Beltaine. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #April 30 #walpurgis
Today, the Bretons are laying the Barrin ar mae (May branch). If today the May branch is considered more of a good luck charm, it was once hung in strategic places on the farm, such as the henhouse, the oven, the stable, in order to ward off bad luck. The entrances to the fields also had their may, in order to ensure a good harvest and to repel crop disease. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 1 #BarrinArMae #Brittany
Beltaine
May 1, 2025
On this day, the Celts celebrated Beltaine. It marks the return of the clear season or luminous season. The main ritual of Beltaine consists of fires lit by druids where livestock passed so that they would be protected from epidemics for the coming year. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #1May #beltaine
Bona Dea
May 1, 2025
On this day, the Romans celebrated Bona Dea. She was a goddess in ancient Roman religion. She was associated with the chastity and fertility of Roman women, healing and protection of the state and people of Rome. Its rites allowed women to use strong wine and blood sacrifice, things otherwise forbidden to them by Roman tradition. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #romeantique #rome #bonadea #1May #3December
Today, the Welsh celebrate Calan Mai, Calan Haf or Cyntefin. It marks the start of summer, the inhabitants celebrate around bonfires, maypoles and songs. Some of its traditions parallel the Gaelic May Day festival Beltaine and other May Day traditions in Europe. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #1May #CalanMay #Cynteend #Wales
Mayades
May 1, 2025
Today, Mayades take place in the Landes de Gascognes. A may (pine pole which is flowered/decorated, probably from the Beltane Celtic tradition) is planted on the night of April 30. On May Day, all kinds of celebrations take place, the traditions of which vary from one city to another. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #1May #Gascognes #Mayade #France
May lily of the valley
May 1, 2025
Today, the French treat themselves to May lily of the valley. The symbolism of the return of spring linked to this flower has its roots in Celtic traditions as well as Roman ceremonies performed in honor of Flora, goddess of flowers. The tradition of lily of the valley in May was formalized in 1561 by Charles IX who requested that the ladies of the court receive a lucky sprig every May 1st. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 1 #Muguet #CharlesIX
2May 2, 2025●(1 event)
Noumenia
May 2, 2025
On this day, the Greeks celebrated Noumenia, the New Moon marking a new month. The Noumenia is the second day of a three-day family festival held every lunar month – the Deipnon of Hekate, then the Noumenia, followed by the Agathos Daimon. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #noumenia
On this day, the Athenians celebrated the Thargelia. The festival included a purification ritual in which two people were made scapegoats, honored, feasted and treated well, and then ritually driven out of the city, taking with them the accumulated impurities or miasma of the city. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #7May #athens #thargelia
8May 8, 2025●●(2 events)
Johannine festivals of Orléans
May 8, 2025
Today, in Orléans (France), the Johannine Festivals take place in honor of the deliverance, on May 8, 1429, by Joan of Arc of the city then besieged by the English. It is the occasion for a grand parade and a mass in the presence of high-ranking personalities. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #8May #JeanneDArc #Orléans
Day of the Irises
May 8, 2025
Today, the people of Benelux celebrate Iris Day. An emblematic flower of Dutch know-how, whether in floral manipulation, perfume and even in the arts as evidenced by the love of this flower by great masters like Vincent Van Gogh, this day is an opportunity to pay tribute to the emblematic flower of the wealth and power of the Orange Republic. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #8May #Netherlands #Belgium #Iris
9May 9, 2025●●(2 events)
Gudbrandsdal Gudrod
May 9, 2025
Today, the Asatrus commemorate Gudbrandsdal Gudrod, known as the martyr. He was one of the five Novegian kings who opposed the forced Christianization by Saint Olaf in 1018. Warned of their plan, he took them prisoner, Olaf took possession of their kingdoms and founded the Kingdom of Norway. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #9May #Norway #SaintOlaf #Gudrod
Lemuria
May 9, 2025
On this day, the Romans celebrated Lemuria. They paid homage to the dead and exorcised malevolent ghosts from their homes. The rites took place during the night, around midnight. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 9 #May 11 #May 13 #rome #lemuria
10May 10, 2025
11May 11, 2025●(1 event)
Ice Saints
May 11, 2025
Today and for 3 days, Europeans celebrate the Ice Saints. These saints were invoked by farmers and gardeners to anticipate the effect of a drop in temperature on crops, which could be observed during this period and which caused frost (phenomenon of the red moon). Once this period had passed, frost was no longer to be feared. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 11 #May 12 #May 13 #SaintMamer #SaintPancrace #SaintServais
12May 12, 2025
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14May 14, 2025●(1 event)
Libation to Apollo
May 14, 2025
On this day, the Greeks made libations to Apollo. It is associated with beauty, education, athletics, plagues and healing, and especially with divination and the oracle, notably that of Delphi. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 14 #Greece #Apollo
15May 15, 2025●(1 event)
Mercuralia
May 15, 2025
On this day, the Romans celebrated the Mercuralia. Mercury is the god of merchants and commerce. Merchants sprinkled their heads, their ships, their goods and their businesses with water taken from the well of Porta Capena. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #rome #May 15 #mercuralia
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20May 20, 2025●(1 event)
Bendidea
May 20, 2025
On this day, the Greeks of Piraeus celebrated Bendidea to honor the goddess Bendis, a Thracian goddess whose worship was brought to Athens by Thracian immigrants. It was unique in that it was a joint Athenian-Thracian festival and included a torchlight horse race. #calendar #mythology #myth #legend #May 25 #athens #piraeus #bendidea
21May 21, 2025●●(2 events)
Agonalia
May 21, 2025
On this day, the Romans celebrate an Agonium. Rites of early Rome, there are few sources describing the customs. Four Agonalia take place during a year. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #9January #21May #17March #11December #agonalia #rome
On this day, the Romans celebrated Vejovis, a god of Etruscan origin. A goat was sacrificed in his Capitol temple to prevent epidemics. There are few sources of early Roman ritual. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 21 #Rome #Vejovis #Capitole
22May 22, 2025
23May 23, 2025●●(2 events)
Wallachian Day
May 23, 2025
Today, Vlach Day takes place in Romania. This people, probably of Thracian or Illyrian origin, has been Romanized. This is why they speak a Romance language unlike all neighboring peoples. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 23 1TP5Vlach #romania
Tubilustium
May 23, 2025
On this day, the Romans celebrate the Tubilustium. The month of March marked the beginning of the war season. The lustration ceremony accompanied by the sacred trumpets and the Saliens prepared the men and the city for future military campaigns. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #March 23 #May 23 #rome #tubilustrium
On this day, the Greeks celebrated Kallynteria and Plynteria. The temple of Athena was cleansed, her eternal flame invigorated and her statue restored. This day was considered cursed because the goddess left her temple to clean it. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #May 25 #24Thargelion #Athena #Kallynteria #Plynteria
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1June 1, 2025●(1 event)
Noumenia
June 1, 2025
On this day, the Greeks celebrated Noumenia, the New Moon marking a new month. The Noumenia is the second day of a three-day family festival held every lunar month – the Deipnon of Hekate, then the Noumenia, followed by the Agathos Daimon. #mythology #myth #legend #calendar #noumenia
An almanac is a calendar showing the main dates of the calendar, the religious holidays, bearing ephemerides such as the phases of the moon or the duration of the days (lunar and solar calendars).
A calendar is a system for marking dates according to time. Such a system was invented by men to divide and organize time over long periods. The observation of the periodic phenomena of the environment in which they lived — such as the daily movement of the shadow, the return of the seasons or the lunar cycle — served as the first references for organizing the agricultural, social and religious life of societies.
The calendar used today in most of the world is the Gregorian calendar. In everyday language, an ephemeris designates what happens daily; the ephemeris of the day is the list of the significant events of this day.
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