It does, and some of them I know very little about, like Eid which is this month. All I know is that it marks the end of Ramadan, which must be cause for great festivity. :-)
The temple was polluted by occupying Zeus-worshippers who sacrificed pigs there, and had to be rededicated by the victorious rebels. The menorah should burn all night,. but they only had enough olive oil for one, yet it burned eight nights which gave them time to get more oil. You can read the story here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah#The_story), and Vila gives a garbled version when he celebrates an equally garbled mixture of festivals in Let There Be Light (http://www.farsight.net.nz/fiction/light.htm). :-)
I think Eid just means holiday or festival. The one at the end of November this year was Eid ul Adha and marks the end of the Hajj at Mecca. Eid ul Fitr is the end of Ramadan and it was in September this year. And Al Hijra (New Year) is next week. The BBC does programmes to celebrate them so I tend to notice those. They only do Christian and Muslim Festivals though, which doesn't seem fair.
I've read the link. You would want a good clean up and and sort out after having pigs sacrificed in the temple.
That was the one I was thinking of; it was in December last year so I got confused. I just read about it and it celebrates Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son. Huh. I did not know they celebrated that (and I've always had difficulty with that. [look it up] I see there's more to it than that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eid_al-Adha#History), since Hagar and Ishmael are involved too. And given her actions, (and Mohammed's independent business-running wives) I'm amazed they despise women so now.
I suppose they only cover Christian and Muslim festivals because they make up most of your population. It must be interesting to learn about the Muslim ones. We have more Hindus, and a lot more Chinese and other Asians (in our sense), here.
I finally found a 2010 pocket diary with a proper list of dates of festivals in it, but just like this year's they're only on that one page and not included on the dates themselves. I'd be much better at remembering everyone's special days if they were there when I checked what I was supposed to be doing each day.
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I'll have the good wishes even for festivals I don't celebrate personally, it spreads the good feelings in the world.
Hanukkah celebrates miraculously keeping the Temple light going through a siege?
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The temple was polluted by occupying Zeus-worshippers who sacrificed pigs there, and had to be rededicated by the victorious rebels. The menorah should burn all night,. but they only had enough olive oil for one, yet it burned eight nights which gave them time to get more oil. You can read the story here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukkah#The_story), and Vila gives a garbled version when he celebrates an equally garbled mixture of festivals in Let There Be Light (http://www.farsight.net.nz/fiction/light.htm). :-)
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I've read the link. You would want a good clean up and and sort out after having pigs sacrificed in the temple.
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I suppose they only cover Christian and Muslim festivals because they make up most of your population. It must be interesting to learn about the Muslim ones. We have more Hindus, and a lot more Chinese and other Asians (in our sense), here.
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I finally found a 2010 pocket diary with a proper list of dates of festivals in it, but just like this year's they're only on that one page and not included on the dates themselves. I'd be much better at remembering everyone's special days if they were there when I checked what I was supposed to be doing each day.
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