On the Yahoo Calendar it lists religious holidays and some of them are for, what I assume, the Borha religion.  I haven't been able to find anything online explaining what Borha is; can anyone help?
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Ok, did you actually look at the stupid holidays of the "Borha" religion? Why does the religion seem to be all the national holidays of BRAZIL?! I think the big giveaway is the holiday marked "Independance of Brazil day" and "Carnaval" But, mostly all the holidays are in Spanish or Portugese.\n\nNow, there is a Borha tribe in the Middle East, which chould have a religiion, but it is small, and also, there is a Bohra religion, which I will C&P right here.\n\nThe Bohras are convert from Hinduism to the Shi'ah Isma'ili sect of Islam. The conversion took place mainly in the twelfth century A.D. in Gujrat in India. The converted were mainly from the Hindu middle and upper castes and mainly from the castes engaged in trade and commerce. The conversion was mainly result of the work of some Arab missionaries from Egypt and the Yemen. Also later on the indigenous converts undertook the missionary activities in other contiguous regions like the areas that today constitute Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharastra. Thus today the Bohras in India, mainly live in these areas and number around 8 to 9 lakhs. They are mainly engaged in small trade though now a newly educated professional class is also coming into existence.
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Mardi Gras and the german "Fasching" are about the same thing, there are many european countries celebrating this. As the people before me already wrote, yes, Fat Tuesday is the last day before the fasting for lent starts. The reason why you dress up in costumes is that it's an old european tradition to scare the winter ghosts out, so spring can come. That's why they used scary masks for this. Nowadays it's just for fun and partying!
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We mainly celebrate Christmas (Christ's birth) and Easter (Christ's resurrection). We also celebrate Christmas Eve. These are just the main holidays that we celebrate but there are others but I personally don't celebrate them. Non-religiously we celebrate normal holidays too. Fourth of July, New Years Eve, New Years Day, Valentines Day, Memorial Day, Veterens Day, and we also recognize Halloween but some Christians regard it as the "Devils Day".
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I don't know why it is not on the category list on the front page. I find it strange that it isn't there, because there is a Politics and Government category listed. It could be that general rule, that you do not talk about Religion and Politics because you might offend someone. If that's the case, I don't think it is fair that you have to look to find the  Religious category. So maybe Yahoo Q&A has not figured out how valuable it would be to them have it listed on their front page. I would think there are a lot of people out there looking for spritual answers.
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Almost all of the Christian Holidays are on top of Pagan Holidays. Easter is on top of Ostera. Bunnies and eggs are pagan symbols of spring and fertility. \n\nHallowe'en is a Pagan holiday, but most people don't know where the holiday origins are from. Pagans call the day Samhain. The old God dies on this day, and the Goddess mourns him until his rebirth at Yule (Christmas - Winter Solstice). The Catholic Church created All Saint's Day (November 1) as a holy day to recognize all the Catholic saints. But it wasn't a powerful enough idea to wipe out the traditional Hallowe'en celebrattions. Ironically, many Christians don't approve of the celebration of Halloween because of its Pagan origins, not realizing that almost all of the holidays they observe had Pagan beginnings.\n\nChristmas is on the Winter Solstice. Even non-Pagans use the term "Yule" around the Christmas holidays. Yule is celebrated on the Winter Solstice (December 22nd), on the shortest day of the year. Since the days get longer from this point in the year, Yule is a celebration of the returning sun and the rebirth of the Pagan God who died at Hallowe'en. As with Easter, the Christian story of the birth of Jesus fits nicely with the Pagan mythology of a "God" reborn. Traditions such as wreaths and Yule logs are remnants of the original beliefs. Gifts were exchanged at Yule long before the Wise Men offered their gifts to the baby Jesus.\n\nGroundhogs Day, although not specifically a Christian holiday, is on the day of the Pagan Holiday called Candlemas (or Imbolc) that is celebrated on February 2nd. Because spring is just starting to show itself at this time of year, there were various superstitions about predicting the weather, and how long it would be until the end of winter. The original idea was to watch for a hedgehog, but as people immigrated to North America, the tradition changed to a ground hog, since we didn't have hedgehogs here.\n\nThe reasons Christian holidays are celebrated on the Pagan holidays is because in the early era of the Christian Church in Europe they were having trouble getting the peasants and simple folk to accept the Christian faith, so they placed the Christian Holidays at the same time as the Pagan Celebrations for that everyone would be happy. By blending the two together it was easier to convert the people to Christianity.
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Let's face it, how many people would have a clue what the section was about if it were called Samhain?\n\nWe all know the festivals by the names that are given in the categories so it makes sense for the categories to be given those names. Besides, yahoo wouldn't want to offend us now would they?
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Read this article I wrote last year about Halloween's origins:\nhttp://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400&no=255855&rel_no=1\n\nIt was the Celtic New Years. \n\nDay of the Dead is a Catholic holiday mixed with pagan Meso-American beleifs. Day of the Dead is All Souls Day when Mexicans remember their dead loved ones, clean tombstones, etc... It's right after All Saints' Day.\n\nThe Celtic tradition of So-wen is similar in that it was also a time of reflection and rememberance of passed loved ones.
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Your question makes NO sense.  What is a "thirtd"?  You've also picked seemingly random long count dates and not explained why you chose them and no others (yes, you have them in seasons, but with huge gaps...?)\nI'm going to guess here.\n13 was a sacred number to the Maya, therefore the start of the 13th Baktun was a big deal for them.\nAlso what's going on in 2012 on the winter solstice is an astronomical alignment which only happens every 26,000 years and signifies the birth of a new sun/new world age.  These do happen in quarters, although not the ones you've chosen, and the winter one is the "grand" one which starts the cycle anew.
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Sunday is the first day of the week, and that is when Jesus Christ arose from the dead, then that is the day we should celebrate The Lord's day!  We should change Sunday to Churchday or someting like that!  Any suggestion?  Also, in the Russian calendar the first day of the week is called 'Voskresenie' meaning 'Resurrection' so it is very fitting, and the communists never pick-up on it, I guess, otherwise they would have changed it to a 'Sunday' or 'Leninday'.  This is a good question!  You can get many variotions of this type of questions, like 'Easter' & 'Halloween' and other pagan & christian designated dates, and what they might have in common.  You'd be surprised as to what you will find out!
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WoW! It's unbelievable how some get so angry over this question.! I don't actually care what it's called; winterval or otherwise. I know it's not popular, but...here goes anyway.....\nDecember 25th, according to the Bible, (which is the ultimate and true word, on this subject and all others,) This date, has Pagan origins, and was declared to be Christ's birthday, by humans. The truth, which as Christians, we should be seeking, is that Christ was actually born in the Fall of the year, (Feast of Trumpets and Feast of Tabernacles Holy Days, are the time of the year when Christ was actually born.) Dec. 25th is the date that Mary was Immaculately conceived, BTW)\nMost people dont want to hear this; it's too hard to change some beliefs. BUT God does tell us to worship in Spirit and in Truth...soooo.... I guess it will be offensive to some! That's the way the Christmas cookie crumbles!\nThese facts about Jesus' real birthday have absolutely nothing to do with being politically correct...They were Biblical and true, before all this nonsense about stuff like that. \nAnyone who seeks the truth about Jesus' birthday, can read it in the Bible; those of us who know that December 25th is not His birthday, have already proved it to ourselves, and find comfort in knowing the truth that Christ has allowed us to know. \nIt's not about taking away a "religious" holiday....It's fine with me if people celebrate Dec 25th, no matter what it's called...but....in reality, since it's not Christ's birthday, it's just a tradition, a fun one perhaps, once you get thru all the hassles involved with shopping, the greed of the merchants, the expectations of what you're going to receive, the stress, not to mention the bills and the cookies that didn't turn out, and the commercialism! \nSo...call it anything...doesn't matter anyway...and I hate to be a party pooper..but Christ doesn't belong in it to begin with...\nWhy not just call it a WinterFest, and be done with it ? That's all it is, anyway!!!
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I'm not a Satanist, but I know a little about the Church of Satan (LaVey's group).\n\nThe Satanic Bible teaches that all men (and women) are their own gods.  Since you are a god, there can be no greater holiday than your own birthday!  They also celebrate the various solstices and equinoxes (or, actually, holidays related to them).  Hallowe'en (October 31) and Walpurgisnacht (April 30) are the two biggies here.\nSatan does not exist per se.  They believe in worshipping the flesh and its desires.  Since the churches have always attacked them, and exist to keep power in the hands of priests, they worship the enemy of the church, Satan.\n\nYes, they have "churches" (there used to be one in San Francisco at one time, I assume it is still there).  \n\nWebsite of the official church below.  Enjoy your quest!
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27Nov Monday 15 22 to 1Dec Friday 20 57 hindu festival of Mitra Saptami.\n\nfrom what i can gather there are 12 festivals (1 a month???) to celebrate saptami each having a different pre-fix.
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Your maths may be a bit out - but otherwise, yes it's true.\n\nHe was 33 1/2 when KILLED on Nisan 14th (end March / start April) so was born end October or very start of November.\n\nChristmas as we know it is from the Roman festival of Saturnalia (return of the sun god) celebrated on Dec 25th. It was amagamated into the 'christain' calendar by Emperor Constantine to 'unite' his peoples - bringing pagan & early roman catholocism together.\nThe true christians of the first century did NOT celebrate Christs birth - only a memorial of his death.\n\nToday - it holds no significance in any religious field - simply a time to get drunk, eat too much & fall out with the relatives...but those who object to the roots of the celebration hold firm their convictions.
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The current definition of the Jewish calendar is generally said to have been set down by the Sanhedrin president Hillel II in approximately C.E. 359. The original details of his calendar are, however, uncertain. \n\nThe Jewish calendar is used for religious purposes by Jews all over the world, and it is the official calendar of Israel. \n\nThe Jewish calendar is a combined solar/lunar calendar, in that it strives to have its years coincide with the tropical year and its months coincide with the synodic months. This is a complicated goal, and the rules for the Jewish calendar are correspondingly fascinating. \n\nLunisolar calendars use months to approximate the tropical year. Examples are the Jewish and Chinese calendars. Since 12 months are about 11 days shorter than the tropical year, a leap month (also called intercalary month) is inserted about every third year to keep the calendar in tune with the seasons. The big question is how to do this. A simple method is to just base it on nature. In ancient Israel, the religious leaders would determine the date for Passover each spring by seeing if the roads were dry enough for the pilgrims and if the lambs were ready for slaughter. If not, they would add one more month. An aboriginal tribe in Taiwan would go out to sea with lanterns near the new moon at the beginning of spring. If the migrating flying fish appeared, there would be fish for New Year's reunion dinner. If not, they would try their luck next month.
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October 31 - Samhain \nDecember 21 - Yule\nFebruary 2 - Imbolic\nMarch 21 - Ostara\nApril 30 - Beltane\nJune 21 - Summer Solstice\nAugust 2 - Lughnassad\nSeptember 21 - Malbon\n\nThese are the holidays called th Sabbats. How you celebrate is up to you. Some ideas are meditation, making goals in your life, spending time with family and friends and especially the gods and goddesses. Blessed be! )O(
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The author above has gotten her name wrong.  It was actually Eostre, also known as Ostara.  For a more accurate description of the festivals associated with this Germanic (not Greek) deity, see the second website below.
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Why is this posted in a religion board? What group are you talking about? We can't really give you an answer if you haven't fully asked the question.