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78The Ancient Akitu Festival of Mesopotamia
Akitu is the earliest New Year's festival for which we have written records, as well as one of the oldest Mesopotamian festivals, dating back to the middle of the third millennium B.C.E. Although it was initially observed on a semiannual basis, due...
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70The Feast of the Ascension Festivals
The feast of the Ascension commemorates the conclusion of the earthly career of Jesus Christ, when he is supposed to have parted from his disciples and risen to heaven. According to the main accounts, which...
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76The Adae Festival of Akan People
The Akan peoples of West Africa, who are concentrated in Ghana but are also found in parts of Ivory Coast to the west and Togo to the east, renew their connection with their past and present leaders once...
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67The Roman New Year Festival, Anna Perenna
During the late Roman Republic, the festival of Anna Perenna was celebrated on March 15 to honor an ancient Italian divinity. This was a kind of New Year's Day in the calendar used at the time of Rome's...
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62The Ancient Roman Festival of Argei
Because it was celebrated on May 14-an even day of the month-the festival of Argei was an anomaly in the calendar of ancient Rome. Usually, only odd days were set aside for religious festivals. It is also not...
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70The Feast of the Annunciation Festival
The feast of the Annunciation on March 25 commemorates the Christian belief in the miraculous conception of Jesus Christ by the Holy Spirit in the Virgin Mary's womb, when the Archangel Gabriel came to her to...
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47Lou Festin dei Cougourdoun Festival in Nice, France
The fact that the Annunciation naturally doubles as a festival of spring is also well illustrated by the Nice custom of "The Feast of the Gourds"-Lou Festin dei Cougourdoun as it is still called in the local...
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72The Ancient Greek Festival of Apaturia
The Apaturia were an ancient Greek festival, held throughout Ionia except for Ephesus and Colophon according to Herodotus (I, 147), and as a three-day holiday that has been dated from either the nineteenth to...
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63The Durbar Festival, of Akan People in Africa
Akuapem’s Odwira culminates in Friday’s great durbar. This Persian word for “court” was used in India for “any formal assembly of notables called together by a governmental authority” (Encyclopedia Britannica 1999) and gained currency in...
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