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Carla Nayland Article - Blotmonath  For an overview of the Old English calendar and links to the other months, see ... for then the cattle which were to be slaughtered were consecrated to their gods. ... --Bede, On the Reckoning of Time, Chapter 15. Translated by Faith Wallis. As a good Christian, Bede clearly disapproved of animal sacrifices to heathen gods.
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Hallow Tide to Martinmas  All Saints' and All Souls' Days, their Relation to a New Year FestivalAll Souls' ... its SlaughterMartinmas DrinkingSt. Martin's Fires in GermanyWinter Visitors in ... All Saints'or, to give it its old English name, All Hallows'and on the morrow is ..... name given to November by Bede, Blot-monath, sacrifice-month.
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jeopardy/3286_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Number: 29. VOCABULARY | Its old name was Blotmonath, the month of sacrifice; time to butcher animals for the winter | November. right: Wrong: Triple Stumper.
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Blt - Wikipedia  Blt (Old Norse neuter) was a Norse pagan sacrifice to the Norse gods, the spirits of the land, ... The sacrifice usually consisted of animals, in particular pigs and horses. ... Anglo-Saxons, November was known as Bltmna, as this later Old English ... The month is named in Latin November, and in our speech Blt-month,...
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Bukhari, Volume 7, Book 68: Al-Adha Festival Sacrifice - LookLex  The Prophet said, 'Slaughter it (as a sacrifice) but it will not be sufficient for any-one ... his companions some animals for sacrifice (to be slaughtered on 'Id-al-Adha). ... He then mentioned his neighbors saying, "I have a six month old ram which is to ... The Prophet said, "Time has come back to its original state which it had on...
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Rosh Hashanah - Wikipedia  Rosh Hashanah (Hebrew:  , literally meaning the "beginning (also head) [of] the year") is the Jewish New Year. The biblical name for this holiday is Yom Teruah ( ), literally "day [of] shouting/blasting", sometimes translated as the Feast of Trumpets.
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The History of New Year's Resolutions - History in the Headlines  Dec 30, 2015 ... The custom of making New Year's resolutions has been around for ... During a massive 12-day religious festival known as Akitu, the ... the new year circa 46 B.C. Named for Janus, the two-faced god whose ... the Romans offered sacrifices to the deity and made promises of good conduct for the coming year.
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Balashon - Hebrew Language Detective: March 2006  Mar 30, 2006 ... In 1910, Nachum Sokolow took the name - meaning "hill of spring" from the book of Yechezkel (3:15), where it ... The other city? .... What is the meaning of this staple word? ... In Arabic, they call it Beit Lahm - House of Meat.
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Top Ten Reasons to Beware the Ides of March | History | Smithsonian  Mar 4, 2010 ... The last Czar of Russia signed his abdication papers in 1917, ... Assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 B.C. ... Brutus stab dictator-for-life Julius Caesar to death before the Roman .... Only the 15th in March, May, and a couple other months. 3. .... The Ides is a Roman term for the 15th of a month. ... First Name.
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Superstitions and Old Wives' Tales - Whimsy Home page  Later beliefs had it that evil spirits dwelt on the left-hand side of the body and so .... Echoes of these time-honoured traditions were heard in July 1959 when the .... In the past, cattle were believed to be one of the prime targets of witches and, ... they would die, especially if the dog was driven away and returned to howl again.
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November-December - Amherst Historical Society  Dec 7, 2008 ... Another claims that the tradition dates back to Abraham. Lincoln pardoning his son Tad's pet turkey. ... An alternate is chosen just in case the first bird ... Barn after enduring a turkey roast full of poultry humor and ... there is nothing recorded regarding a presidential pardon for a .... One of these posts.
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History Magazine - 1000AD  The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, a record of events in England started in the late 800s ... he would leave us one of the very few records that have survived of the monthly tasks of ... January was known as Wolf-monath or Aefter-Yula (after Christmas). ... The Romans called it a Carpentum leading to our modern word carpenter.
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Composite build of January vol. 1 - The William Hone BioText  It derives its name from Janus, a deity represented by the Romans with two faces, because ... The Saxons also called this month "Aefter-yula," or After Christmas.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church - The sacrament of the Eucharist  The Greek words eucharistein141 and eulogein142 recall the Jewish ... The Holy Sacrifice, because it makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the ... When Jesus instituted the Eucharist, he gave a new and definitive meaning to the .... name of Christ in the Eucharistic sacrifice in which they will become his body and blood.
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Sprout-e-News - Handstamped Xmas Jewelry Event  The name for this month comes from the Roman word 'novem' meaning nine, because it was the ninth ... Sir Walter Scott, in his long poem Marmion, wrote in 1808: November's sky is chill and drear, November's leaf is red and sear (withered)'.
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Josephus; with an English translation by H. St. J. Thackeray, in nine ...  s.w. Printed in GreatBritain ... fruits of the leisure which he found in Rome after the ..... 170 b.c.) to the death of Herod ; ii continues the history down to the outbreak of war ...... JEWISH WAR, I. 11-15 his indulgence for a compassionwhich falls outside .... ing it for three years and six months, was expelled Book i. ..... Page 58...
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filbert       Frankish abbot, so called because the hazel nuts ripen near his feast day, Aug. ... (so named because it is ripe about 20 August, the feast day of St Philibert)  ... after St. Philibert, whose feast came in the nutting season] 1. the edible nut of a ... after Saint Philibert, a 7th century Frankish abbot whose feast day falls on the...
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Ides of March - Wikipedia  The Ides of March is a day on the Roman calendar that corresponds to 15 March. It was marked by several religious observances and became notorious as the date of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. ... The Flamen Dialis, Jupiter's high priest, led the "Ides sheep" (ovis Idulius) in procession along the Via Sacra...
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Rabbi Robert Scheinberg's page: Goats and Cats, Sticks and Dogs ...  Apr 19, 2016 ... Some find it surprising that at the Passover Seder, we discuss weighty ... Then came a dog and bit the cat - that ate the goat - that my father bought for two gold coins. ... And the song concludes, ten verses later: And then came God, the ... slaughtered the ox that drank the water that put out the fire that burnt...
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Halloweentrac-print - ecfamily.org  Celts/Druids - The evening of October 31st and the first of November were ... (pagan) feasts (and time off from work) had they merely abolished them outright. ... Halloween is the only widely celebrated modern holiday that still retains it's .... Another tradition, in medieval Europe, held that black cats were witches in disguise.
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Origin of the Feast of Christmas | Antiochian Orthodox Christian ...  By Antony Bassoline The celebration of the birth of Christ has become the ... This is known because Herod the Great died in 4 B.C., and Herod figures in the ... The Church at one time conquered and transformed that pagan holiday into the...