By Christian Roy
This illustrated reference paintings covers a variety of gala's that experience sacred origins and are, or were, a part of a people culture, an international faith, or an incredible civilization.
• greater than a hundred and fifty A–Z entries at the content material and context of every pageant, tracing its historic improvement and geographic adaptations, from Ashura (Islam) to Whitsuntide (Christianity)
• 70 illustrations of festive rituals together with images of Belgium's Binche Carnival, Japan's Cherry Blossom pageant, and the Zulu Reed Dance
• Tables of dates for the main feasts in Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in addition to for the chinese language New Year
• Calendar graph exhibiting at a look the relative locations of all of the fairs mentioned within the seasonal cycle of a unmarried year
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Stations along the Way To allow the boats to be laid down and their priestly carriers to rest awhile and feast on the offering, stations were provided at strategic points, such as royal temples on the procession’s way. From raw brick, these stations gradually evolved into permanent structures of limestone, granite, or sandstone. Although they are long since ruined, they were originally meant to testify to the Egyptian monarchy’s endless continuity over time—proof that it partook of divine eternity.
Gwyn Griffiths. Cardiff, Wa: University of Wales Press, 1970. ◗ ATEMOZTLI, ATLCAUALO See Rain Festivals ◗ ATONEMENT (DAY OF) See Yom Kippur ◗ AWUKUDAE See Adae B ◗ BACCHANALIA See Dionysia ◗ BAEKJUNG portant ritual in the Ainu religion centered on the sacrifice of a bear, typical of similar rites among many cultures of the Northern Hemisphere’s higher latitudes. See Days of the Dead (China, Korea, Japan) An Ancient Circumpolar Bear Cult ◗ BAHÁ See Nineteen-Day Feast ◗ BAISAKHI See Vaishakha and Vaisakhi ◗ BANK HOLIDAYS See Lugnasad, Samhain, Whitsuntide ◗ BASANTI PUJA See Navaratra and Dusshera ◗ BAYRAM See Eid ◗ BEAR FESTIVAL (JAPAN) The largely assimilated remnants of Japan’s aboriginal Caucasoid Ainu people can now only be found in the country’s northernmost Hokkaido Island (where they number some twenty-four thousand), as well as on the Sakhalin and Kurile Islands annexed by Russia at the end of the Second World War.
William Fitzhugh and Chisato O. Dubreuil, eds. Ainu. Spirit of a Northern People. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2000. A. Irving Hallowell. “Bear Ceremonialism in the Northern Hemisphere,” in American Anthropologist (new series), Vol. 28, No. 1, January–March 1926, pp. 1–175. Mythologica: A Treasury of World Myths and Legends. Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 2003. , the Amon of Karnak was taken in effigy to the royal temples of the “city of the dead” across the Nile from that religious metropolis of Egypt, using ceremonial boats that were then carried overland through the funerary complex in a popular procession.