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Religious Holiday Calendar
January 2003
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1/1
New Year's day
1/1
Feast of Strenia, Festival of Juno, Birthday of Cronus, Ancient Roman New Year
1/1 Gantan-sai, three day Shinto New Year's celebration
1/1
Day of keeping the things of Osiris (Wesir) in the hands of Anubis (Anpu)
1/2
Birthday of Inanna
1/2 Advent of Isis, Ancient Egypt; Kemet
1/2 Breaking the cakes, Vodoun
1/3

Feast of Pax, Goddess of peace; ancient Rome
1/3 Charming of the Plow; Asatru
1/5
Birth of Guru Gobind Singh; Sikh
1/5 Befana; Italian Yule tradition.
1/5 Festival of Kore (persephone); ancient Greece

1/6

Daygan; Zoroastrian
1/6

King's cake festival; Vodoun
1/7 Koshogatsu; Shinto festival honoring the creator of the Kami.
1/7 Birthday of Sekhmet; Ancient Egypt, Kemet
1/8 Lesser Festival of Dionysius (Bacchus); Greece
1/9
The Agonalia; Ancient Roman festival of Janus
1/11 The Carmentalia; five day ancient Roman festival in honor of Themis
1/13 Midvinterblot; Asatru
1/14 Makara Sakranti; Hindu winter Solstice and Sikh festival of Maghi
1/15
Bahmangan; Zoroastrian
1/15 Seljin-no-hi; Shinto adulthood celebration
 
1/17 Day of Legba; Vodoun
1/17 Feast of Ogun; Santeria
1/19 Thorrablot; Asatru
1/20 World Religions Day; Baha'i
1/20 Festival of Jubilation for Wesir (Osiris); Kemet
12/30
1/25 Burns' night; Scotland
1/25 Feast of Amen-Amenet; ancient Egyptian, Kemet
1/29 Jashn e Sadeh; Zoroastrian Fire Festival
12/31
1/31 Birth of Guru Har Rai; Sikh

 


 
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