May 1. Beltane (Wicca) By the way the Gaelic or "Irish" for May is
Bealtaine / May Day (International) / - 4 Green Corn Dance (Zuni)
welcoming back the Corn Maidens, who flee the land during the Winter./
International Workers Day. What May Day has become in many parts of the
world, in Russia however they have taken to calling it Labor & Coming of
Spring Day. / Giorno dei Lavoratori (Italy) / National Love Day (Czech
Republic) Couples go to the memorial of the poet Karel Hynek M=E1cha in
Prague and kiss. / Lei Day (Hawaii) / Law day & Loyalty day (U.S.) /
Ascension of Christ (Christianity) You know keeping track these movable
feasts, of which there are more than a few in May, can be a pain in the
neck, give me a nice holiday ready to settle down, like Coca Cola Day on
the 8th! / Day in 1776 that the Order of the Illuminati of Bavaria was
formed by Adam Weishaupt (1748 - 1811) / According to Ronald Hutton in
Trumpet of the Moon, it was this day in 1947 that Gardner (founder of
modern Wicca) had the first of four May meetings with Aleister Crowley,
where he bought a number of books, and was recommend by him to be made a
4th degree initiate of the O.T.O. / Samhain (Wicca) In the Southern
Hemisphere.
May 2. Second day of Labor Day (Bulgaria, Slovenia, & Romania) /
Teacher*s Day (Iran) / Yom HaShoah (Israel) Holocaust Remembrance Day
May 3. International Day of Prayer, day to pray for freedom of
expression, freedom of religion, and separation of religion and
government throughout the world./ Rice Planting Festival (****nto) /
World Press Freedom Day / Holy Cross Day (Catholic) / It was 69 years
ago that Batman (then called The Bat-Man) premiered in Detective Comics
# 27. / Free Comic Book Day (U.S., Canada, U.K.) At participating comic
shops you can go in and get a free comic book as part of a multi nation
promotion.
http://www.freecomicbookday.com/sponsors.asp
May 4. International Firefighters* Day. / Remembrance of the Dead. (The
Netherlands) that*s the Netherlands NOT the Nether World. / Youth Day &
Literary Day (People*s Republic of China) / Day in the Roman Empire on
which an all-female festival was held in honor of Bona Dea. / It was on
this date that Manhattan island is sold in exchange for $24 in beads &
buttons in 1626. That*s the story anyway, but who used dollars as a
designation of cost back then? Anyway the bit they always fail to add
about this tale is that the fellow who took the beads & buttons didn*t
even live on the Island (must of been from Jersey) and was just there to
fish, no doubt he was glad to take it from the suckers however.
May 5. Cinco de Mayo (Mexico) / Children*s Day (South Korea) /
International Midwives Day / International No Pants Day / Tango no Sekku
(Japan) which means "First Day of the Horse" but it really more often
called "boy's day."
May 6. Corregidor Day (Philippines) / Bulgaria - Radio and Television
Day / Beverage Day (U.S.)
May 7. Yom Ha Zikaron (Israel) Memorial Day / Radio (Russia) / National
Masturbation Day (U.S.) But only as declared by Good Vibrations a ***
toy business, but they have been trying to pull it into existence for
over 12 years now, and yet it remands the activity of a single entity=85
which I guess is fitting enough considering the theme. There is however
more to it then just the amusing name, the "event" each year is a
fundraiser by the shop for AIDS/HIV research with the suggestion that
people donate 1 dollar for every minute they spend=85 you can finish the
sentence.
May 8. Coca-Cola Day, invented in May of 1886 in Atlanta, Ga Coke is 122
years old as of today. / Parent*s Day (South Korea) / V-E Day. Germany
surrenders in 1945. / Yom HaAtzmaut (Israel) The Israeli Independence
Day
May 9. Lemuria (Ancient Rome) First day of a 3-day holiday when it was
thought that the spirits of the dead returned to their old homes. /
Lunalia (Fairy Wicca) festival for the Lady of Light. / Orgasm Day
(Esperantina, Brazil) Started by the mayor of that town about three
years ago when he read that only 28% of ***ually active women have
orgasms. / Joan of arc canonized 1920, say what? I thought they burned
her at the stake and a lot longer before 1920 too? Ohhhhh! The other
kind of canonizing.
May 10. Day for Matsu, Goddess of the Sea (Taiwan) / Vesak Day
(Singa****e, Malaysia) a day, which is observed on different days in
different counties or different sects of Buddhism, commemorates the
enlightenment & entry of the Buddha into Nirvana. / Akshaya Tritya
(Hindu) / Astronomy Day (U.S.) / Birds* and Trees* Day (Hungary) /
Celebration of the Clandestine Retreat of Ma*at and Ra (Ancient Egypt) /
Confederate Memorial Day (North & South Carolina) / Mania (Ancient Rome)
/ Ploughing Ceremony (Thailand) / Tin Hau*s Day (China) / Tori no Mawari
starts "Bird Week" (Japan) / Tritopatores (Ancient Greece) / and Happy
Birthday Homer Simpson! Originally in 1955, now around 1969 and marching
forward year after year.
May 11. Mother's Day (International) though many countries have it on
different day, this is the date of the original and the most widely
used, you can also think of it as Christmas Eve for restaurants as they
get the most business of the year this day / Tupperware Day, according
to DuPont the bowl that goes "burp" is 63 years old today. / Pentecost
(Christian) / It was on this day in 1659 that the Massachusetts Bay
Colony banned the "pagan" holiday of Christmas.
May 12. International Nurses Day, commemorating the birthday of Florence
Nightingale in 1820.
May 13. Frog Jumping Day (Calaveras Country Cal,) From the story by Mark
Twain, but god help you if PETA finds you feeding your frog buckshot
these days! / Leprechaun Day (U.S.) Like St. Paddies Day wasn*t enough?
Or is this day for the protestant Leprechauns?
May 14. Carabao Festival (Spain)
May 15. It was during the ides of May that the Vestal virgins preformed
rites to bless and entice the water for the coming Summer. / Teacher*s
Day (South Korea) / National Chocolate Chip Day (U.S.) / Mercuralia
(Ancient Rome) Held in honor of Mercury / Peace Officers Memorial Day
(U.S.) / Dia del Maestro "Teacher*s Day" (Mexico) / Feast of Ochossi,
Orisha of Animals (Santeria) / Happy Birthday Mickey Mouse! 1928.
May 16. International Pickle Day / Wear Purple For Peace Day / Teacher*s
Day (Malaysia) / - 19 Strawberry Ceremony (Iroquois) / Middle*** Day.
(Britain) To quote from the old cartoon of two children, a boy and girl,
talking "I forget are you the opposite *** or am I?" As for which is the
middle *** I will not dare a guess.
May 17. International Day Against Homophobia or IDAHO.
May 18. Festival of Pan (Ancient Greece) / Festival of Faunus (Ancient
Rome) / the Roman name for Pan. / Remembrance day for Moses de Leon
(Kabbala) hmmm a day for Pan and a Kabalistic mystic, now we know what
Madonna is going to be doing today. / Senior Citizens Day (U.S.) and a
day for senior citizens too! This really is a day for the Material girl
today isn't it.
May 19. Pilgrimage to Treguier (France) / Feast Day of Brigid (Celtic)
During which sacred wells and springs were adorned with flowers.
May 20. Pardon of the Singers (Britain) / Feast of Aphrodite and Eros
(Ancient Greek) From sundown till sundown tomorrow.
May 21. Victoria Day (Canada) / Vesak Day (South Korea)
May 22. Immigrant Day (Canada) / Heroes Day (Sri Lanka) Save the Sri
Lankan cheerleader, save the world. / First Re****ted modern sighting of
the Lock Ness Monster (1933,) Whom some say is not a real living
creature but is instead a shape ****fting phantom that was released due
to the activities of Aleister Crowley at his Scottish home of Boleskine
on the shores of Lock Ness. / First re****ted sighting of Mister Roger*s
Neighborhood 1967. Not even the wildest conspiracy buffs say Crowley had
anything to do with that.
May 23. Feast Day of Hermes Trismagistus (Hermes the thrice blessed)
patron of alchemists. / Waisak Day (Indonesia) Day when the birth, death
& enlightenment of Buddha is celebrated in Indonesia. / Declaration of
the B=E1b (Bah=E1*=ED Faith ) Starts at sundown yesterday, / Penny Day
(U.S.) and yet=85. http://www.retirethepenny.org/
Citizens for Retiring
the Penny. / Defenestration of Prague (Prague, Poland) Defenestration is
a now almost forgotten word that means "the act of throwing something or
someone out of a window," this day in Prague commemorates the day in
1618 when some royal officials were thrown out a window in a castle by
some noblemen, but survived the fall by landing in a cart full of
manure.
May 24. Visakha Puja (Buddhist) Another day said to be the birthday of
Buddha / National Escargot Day (U.S.)
May 25. Trust in the Force Day (somewhere probably) In 1977 the film
Star Wars is released, as there are now more people in England saying
they are Jedi than there are people saying they are Jewish, Buddhist or
Sikh I guess that makes this a religious holiday. / Africa Day (
Liberia, Zambia, Zimbabwe.) / Towel Day, which I*m told is "celebrated"
worldwide as well as, I assume, at the Restaurant at the End of Time. /
Happy Birthday Goofy! 1932.
May 26 Memorial Day (U.S.) / National Sorry Day (Australia)
http://www.acn.net.au/articles/sorry/
May 27 D=EDa de la Madre (Bolivia) / Mors Dag (Sweden) both of which
mean Mother's Day. / Children's Day (Nigeria)
May 28. Memorial Day (U.S.) Observed. / National Hamburger Day (U.S.)
May 29. Ascension of Baha*u*llah (Baha'i) / Oak Apple Day (Fairy Wicca)
/ Shavuot (Jewish) Feast of First Fruits.
May 30. Sacred Heart of Jesus (Catholic) / The day in 1431 that Joan of
Arc was burned at the stake, not shot out of a canon like they seem to
have thought earlier in the month back in 1920
May 31. National Macaroon Day (U.S.) / International No Tobacco Day. Eat
a macaroon instead, see we*re just trying to help.
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Terry McCombs
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