sacred calendar

  • major reference

    TITLE: worship: Sacred seasons
    SECTION: Sacred seasons
    Worship takes place at appointed seasons and places. The religious calendar is thus of great importance for the worshipping community, since communities associate worship with critical times in the life of the society. The hunting, planting, and harvesting seasons are of special importance. The beginning of the year (at the time of the spring or fall equinox or of the summer or winter solstice,...
  • Buddhism

    TITLE: Buddhism: Calendric rites and pilgrimage
    SECTION: Calendric rites and pilgrimage
    Calendric rites and pilgrimage
  • Mesopotamian religions

    TITLE: Mesopotamian religion: Sacred times
    SECTION: Sacred times
    During most of the 2nd millennium bce each major city had its own calendar. The months were named from local religious festivals celebrated in the month in question. Only by the 2nd millennium bce did the Nippur calendar attain general acceptance. The nature of the festivals in these various sacred calendars sometimes reflected the cycle of agricultural activities, such as celebrating the...
  • Roman religion

    TITLE: Roman religion: Influence on Roman religion
    SECTION: Influence on Roman religion
    Above all, Rome owed to its Etruscan kings its religious calendar. In addition to poetical works discussing the calendar in antiquarian fashion, such as the Fasti of Ovid, there are extant fragments of about 40 copies of the calendar itself, in a revised shape established by Julius Caesar. Besides the Julian revision, there is an incomplete pre-Caesarian, Republican calendar, the Fasti...
  • symbolism

    TITLE: religious symbolism and iconography: Symbols of sacred time and space
    SECTION: Symbols of sacred time and space