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The nones of July, ancient Rome
In the Roman calendar, the nones of a month were the fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October; traditionally the day of the Half Moon. The nones were nine days before the ides (depending on the month, these could be the 13th and 15th day; traditionally the day of the Full Moon), reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.
The Caprotine Nones, Latium, Roman Empire (Jul 7- 8)
This was the Fig Festival, and Festival of Handmaids – the maids’ day off. Wild fig trees (caprificus) were venerated today, with feasting beneath them in honour of Caprotina, an aspect of Juno (warrior goddess), to whom they made offerings. Maids had a sham fight with stones and abused each other. The festival might have earlier been a fertility rite. The next day a thanksgiving, celebrated by the pontifices, or priests ...
Categories: rome, ancient-rome, calendar-customs
Happy Tanabata
Tanabata is a nationwide celebration in Japan, featuring very large festivals, with streets decorated with lanterns, festooned bamboo and colourful streamers, notably at Hiratsuka, Miyagi Prefecture and Shounan City, Kanagawa Prefecture. In some districts, such as Sendai City, the Tanabata festival is celebrated according to the lunar calendar, in early August, or specifically on August 7.
Tanabata, inspired by a romantic legend, is the name for Japanese version of the Chinese star festival (Qi Qiao Jie or Qi Xi, sometimes called Chinese Valentine's Day, which falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month of the Chinese calendar and thus is also known as 'Double Seven Day'). It is thought to date back to the 8th Century in Japan; in fact, 755 is given as the year that the Empress-regent Koken (718 - 770) instituted Tanabata. On this day two stars (Vega, in the Lyra constellation, and Altair, in the Aquila constellation – see below) that are usually separated from each other by the Milky Way, come together.
The festival celebrates the meeting of Orihime (personifying the star Vega), a skilful weaver, and Hikoboshi, or Kengyu (Altair), a herdsman and breeder of cattle, mythological lovers who were separated by the Milky Way, a river made from stars that crosses the sky. They were allowed to meet only once a year, on Double Seven Day, which the Japanese have placed at 7/7 in the Gregorian Calendar, namely, July 7 ...
Categories: japan, mythology, calendar-customs, astronomy
1846 Livingston Hopkins ('Hop'; d. August 21, 1927), American-born (Bellefontaine, Ohio) Australian cartoonist and caricaturist of The Bulletin. 'Hop', the thirteenth of 14 children, did more than 19,000 drawings and was one of the best-known Australian magazine artists of his day.
After a successful career in the USA on such publications as Harper's Bazaar and Harper's Magazine, and a number of books, he arrived in Australia in February, 1883 at the invitation of WH Traill of The Bulletin, intending to work for that magazine for a couple of years, and stayed 30, ending up a part-proprietor ...
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