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The Chicago Yuletide project is directed at curbing both counter-cultural apathy and wasteful traditions that accompany the winter holidays. Rather than making a gesture against holiday consumerism in the manner of Buy Nothing Day. This project acts as an experiment to seek out or test the possibility of a sustainable, green, non commercial winter holiday tradition. Yuletide, The Twelve Days of Yule: A Winter festival of traditions celebrating old, new, disorder and harmony for the most intense holiday in the world. Generally the festival can span between Dec 20th and January 1st, approximately from the longest night to New Year's Day, which is about 12 nights, bridging the solar new year with the Gregorian new year. Here is a potential timetable composed of a fusion of historical world traditions, but there are no rules. It is up to each community to decide the best way to celebrate each day.
[edit] Chicago 2007-2008
[edit] Suggestions
- (Sleep overs) Every night is spent at a different persons house.
- Money is only spent on food, but it is better to dumpster or ask for it.
- Everything else is dumpstered or donated
- Any money made from donations goes towards food &/or charitable cause.
- Equal amount to food eaten is donated to the Greater Chicago Food Depository or Food not Bombs.
- event locations could take donations but never charge admissions. (no one turned away)
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| (Dawn to Dusk) | (Sunset) | (Dusk to Dawn) | |
| Thursday 20th | Deck the Halls | Eid Feast | 1. Yuletide Eve |
| Friday 21st | 1. Dong Zhi | Goru Feast | 2. Shabe Chele | Yule mass |
| Saturday 22nd | 2. (XXXXXXX?) | Food not Bombs Dinner | 3. (XXXXXXX?) |
| Sunday 23rd | 3. (XXXXXXXX?) | Festivus Dinner | 4. wikipedia:Feats of Strength |
| Monday 24th | 4. Lenaia | Chrismukkah Eid Feast | 5. Weihnachten |
| Tuesday 25th | 5. Christmas | Boars Head feast, Kwanzaa begins | 6. Caroling |
| Wednesday26th | 6. Wren day | Kwanzaa dinner | 7. Junkanew |
| Thursday 27th | 7. Clone day? | Kwanzaa dinner | 8. SL4 party |
| Friday 28th | 8. Día de Inocentadas | Kwanzaa dinner | 9. Mummers mass | After party? |
| Saturday 29th | 9. (XXXXXXXXXX?) | FNB, Kwanzaa dinner | 10. Skeleton's Yuletide Show |
| Sunday 30th | 10. (Freedom day?) | Kwanzaa dinner | 11. DADA night |
| Monday 31th | 11. Day of reflection | Kwanzaa dinner | 12. New Year's Eve (Twelfth Night|First footing) |
| Tuesday 1st | 12. New Years Day | Hoppin John Dinner | Mothers' Night |
[edit] Day 0, Night 1
Festivities begin with the preparations, the day before Yuletide. Fasting is observed through the halcyon days, until nightfall of yule eve. There is the cutting and rolling home of the Yule log (which is delivered from house to house by mummers at night fall?), the gathering of evergreens, fir trees and wikipedia:mistletoe, the Baking of feasts, cakes and warming treats like gingerbread, the making of lanterns and 12 beeswax and scented candles, including colored candles for Kwanzaa; 3 red, 3 green and 1 'Unity' candle[1]. The candles are fixed on a hat or small wreath in a crown like fashion and placed on a dinner table in front of a chair which no one but the yuletide Geist[2] can sit in until the twelfth night. there is also the decorating of the firtrees, the making of wreathes, the hanging of boughs, holly, mistletoe, and after dark, the dressing and burning of the Yule log along with serving eggnog, juleol and other treats, the singing of Yuletide Carols like 'Deck the Halls' and a general observance of 'goodwill unto others'. The yule log is burned each following night until the last night of yule. Wassailing can begin this night. An Eid ul-Adha community khutba[3] is delivered. [4]
- individual homes?
- T or E
- Adam
[edit] Day 1, Night 2
Dongzhi[5][6] is begun by taking baths filled with lemons or wikipedia:yuzu[7] and citrus is served in tea as well.
- ChinaTown?
- Jeff?
On Shab e Cheleh is begun at night fall by filling the home with pungent smells.[8] At dinner, Goru is performed. Everyone sits at a low Yuleboard[9] covered in a wool blanket. Everyones legs are warmed underneath the blanket by a small heater.[10] The food is served in a dramatic reinaction of the birth of the universe and life on earth.[11] wikipedia:Tangyuan and Dumpling Soup [12] Watermelon is served for desert.[13]
- Shannon
- Grand house?
The longest night of the year, feasting is followed by a lantern march [14]. This involves the lighting of candles, torches or lanterns previously constructed from paper, branches, and other found or reused incinerable materials and silently going in group procession by foot, horseback or bicycle through the city or woods to a nearby beach to burn the lanterns in a celebratory bonfire on the shore or another more secretive yet public location. The Bonfire ignites at 12:09am [15] ending the silence with loud celebration.[16] Several ringed wikipedia:circle dances (wikipedia:Horo) could take place around the fire as part of the celebration.[17]
- Environmental Encroachment[18]?
- bikers?
- Thunderat
- T or E
[edit] Day 2, Night 3
XXXXXXX?[19]
wikipedia:Food Not Bombs dinner in wikipedia:Humboldt Park. Food is brought to the park for any one who wishes to eat it, particularly the needy. Day is Spent Gathering food.[20]
- Food Not Bombs?
followed by Yuletide event hosted by collaborative institution (Singing and dancing preferred)
[edit] Day 3, Night 4
XXXXXXX?[21]
The wikipedia:Festivus Pole, an aluminum pole is quickly decorated before Festivus Dinner. The Airing of Grievances occurs over dinner by telling every one at the table how they have disappointed you.[22]
Feats of Strength, begins with the wrestling of the house head to the floor.
- CR?
[edit] Day 4, Night 5
wikipedia:Brumalia is spent preparing the glogg/gluwine/glintvin/mulled wine.[23]
Weihnukka or the wikipedia:Chrismukkah wikipedia:Eid feast is observed by singing tannenbaum, drinking of mulled wines "glogg", eating oily foods like pontshkes, bimuelos, or sufganiyot[24] and wikipedia:Lenaia is observed by holding wikipedia:Lenaian, Jewish, and female comedy improv competitions possibly making predictions of the coming year.[25] This is optionaly followed by a Santa Rampage.
- Jewish and female improve comedy groups?
- Annoyance Theater?
- Adam
[edit] Day 5, Night 6
wikipedia:Christmas day[26] is spent indoors waking up amongst loved ones and eating breakfast together. Acts of kindness are discovered or sometimes the exchange of gifts occurs in the spirit of the secretive gift giver, Άγιος Νικόλαος or Agios Nikolaos (wikipedia:St. Nicholas), who would avoid letting the effected person know who had done the act of kindness for them.[27] Also the day is spent constructing wikipedia:Mumming, Wrenboy, straw and wikipedia:hoodening suits.
- Thunderat
A Christmas feast is served including the serving of food made to look like a boars head[28] while singing 'the wikipedia:Boar's Head Carol'. The head may be an ephigy constructed of any edible substance, as long as it is well marinated and seasoned. The 6th yule candle, which is the first Kwanzaa[29] candle of 'Unity', is lit at the end of the carol, and a discussion on unity ensues.[30]
- Thunderat layer
- yuleGoat production?(made from junk? sweaters?)
Followed by more Christmas caroling the neighborhood. this could be the first night of Julebukking. Mummers costumes are finished before sleeping.
(Houses with sewing machines)
- Thunderat layer
- Cookie house?
- hodge?
[edit] Day 6, Night 7
wikipedia:Wren day (Lá an Dreoilín) or John Konnu is celebrated on December 26, the first joulupukking day. Holming (beating or slashing with holly branches) of late risers by wikipedia:mummers starts the morning[31]. Everyone takes to the streets in suits (wikipedia:wrenboys, straw boys, "wikipedia:druids", wikipedia:mummers). [32] Parading the wren from house to house. Understandably the winter Wren is a difficult bird to catch. some might use a domesticated animal or arbitrary object and continue to insist throughout the day that it is indeed a 'wren' that they have caught and are parading about. the animal or ephigee is often dressed in ribbon and holly &/or placed in a cage often hung from a pole. The occupants of the houses visited would offer food and sometimes drink or money and might even join in the general hilarity, some of the younger members going onward with the crowd. collection of money or drinks is often for a party to be thrown that night. [33]
A candle lit for KUJICHAGULIA (CO-GEE-CHA-GOO-LEE-AH) SELF-DETERMINATION This principle talks about the commitment of every individual to build his own life from his own image. It talks about the way people need to take responsibility for their actions and accomplishments upon themselves to achieve their ambitions of freedom and thus building a more satisfying and significant life in the struggle of Black America.
8:30 wren ride is called for mumming from house to house for "Junk-anew" party.
- bike clubs?
- wikipedia:Rat Patrol?
- Thunderat
[edit] Day 7, Night 8
wikipedia:Raëlian clone day, Eve day: [34] This is a good time To observe the Singularity, pending AI surpassing of human intelligence, and cloning as issues we will have to either accept or embrace, as SL4ists and transhumanists. Day can be spent making cyborg robot alien or other transhumanist related mumming garbs from found objects.
A candle lit for UJIMA (00-GEE-MA) COLLECTIVE WORK AND RESPONSIBILITY. The following principle applies the concepts of self-criticism and personal evaluation in order to achieve common good for the family and the community. There must be collectiveness and responsibility and a complete understanding of our achievements as well as our failures in order to achieve unity and succeed. The family must persuade the idea of discussion of a family’s accountability of every action they do.
followed by Julebukking for a wikipedia:Cyborg, Robot, Mutant, Computer and SL4 party. this event is dedicated to the future. This can be a chocolate Robot dance party in which cyborgs and robots adorn each other in flowers and force feed each other chocolate.[35]
- chocolate party up for grabs
[edit] Day 8, Night 9
The wikipedia:Yule Goat, julbok or Joulupukki[36] are hidden in peoples possessions or on there door knobs by children. after receiving the gifts from mummers. Any one who finds it must do the same thing to some one else until new years.[37][38][39] A scroll of paper is kept inside, on which any finder can write a secret before passing it on.[40]
- Childrens programs?
A candle lit for UJAMAA (00-JAH-MAH) COOPERATIVE ECONOMICS This principle comes out of the concept of “African Communal Living” where in every community or family, sharing wealth and resources on a national and economic level must be applied.
wikipedia:Mummers Mass is observed by dressing in mummers costumes and attending wikipedia:critical mass, mummers can plant yule goats on door knobs of houses passed, followed by a Yuletide event hosted by collaborative institution (Singing and dancing proffered)
- giving out yuleGoats?
- wikipedia:Critical Mass
- Thunderat
- chicago Bike winter?
- Mucca Pazza?
- West town Bikes?
- Rats?
[edit] Day 9, Night 10
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A candle lit for NIA (NEE-AH) PURPOSE This principle is usually on the fifth day where it tests the idea of living where reflection must be made in order to verify if this purpose will do any benefit to the family or the community.
Yuletide event hosted by collabrative institution (Singing and dancing preffered)
- the Skeleton benifit?
[edit] Day 10, Night 11
XXXXXXX[42]
A candle lit for KUUMBA (KOO-M-BAH) CREATIVITY This principle promotes the idea of creativity, whereas creativity is the basis of prosperity of the family and the community. It is considered very important to be creative in every aspect of life and to create new things varying from science to education and even music.
followed by Julebukking for DADA party
- Cookie house
- Jill
- hodge
- loyde?
[edit] Day 11, Night 12
This day is spent in quiet reflection of the past year[43]. Some wear red underwear as a love charm[44].
- Adam
The last candle is lit for IMANI (E-MAH-NE) FAITH The seventh and last principle talks about faith and belief in the individual and in the community. It is through faith that a person can achieve victory and control our destiny.
followed by parading about, singing shchedrivochka[45], coaxing people into the streets[46] to begin the New Years Eve celebrations. After the Caroling about every on gathers at a house befor midnight for the twelfth night festivities. wikipedia:Tortell is eaten. The person who finds the bean in the tortell is crowned with the wreath with the candles in it and sits in a chair on a table. Mummers could perform their last Junkanew dances and disapear befor daylight. After the singing of 'wikipedia:Auld Lang Syne', First-footing begins with people taking to the streets trying to be the first person to set foot through the door of their friends. This often results in traveling parties that move from house to house.[47] First-footing is observed until all have stopped at there final destination for breakfast.
- Grand House?
- T or E
[edit] Day 12, Mothers' Night
New Year's Day[48] is a day of rest and relaxation all try to stay awake throughout the day to reset their circadian clock making the coming night's sleep more savory. "chocolate con churros", Mexican hot chocolate and fried pastries (pankakes?), are served for breakfast[49]. 'Polar bearing' is also practiced by experienced groups during the day. Some bikers take part in "Weather Be Damned Ride", biking 15 miles and then eat brunch. 'Redding' is done[50], when the Yule logs are turned up, fireplaces swept and remaining decorations are removed.
- The Cook Shop?
- Alexis?
- Chicago cycling club?
This dinner is a meal called wikipedia:Hoppin John with collard or mustard greens[51], plus black eyed peas[52] these are eaten for wealth and good luck in the coming year.
- Individual homes
After sunset all go to bed early. Mothers' night or Dream night is a night to dream of the coming year[53]. Such dreams are valuable as the last lucid experience of Yuletide.
- Individual homes
[edit] Calendar
| Sunday | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
| 1 | ||||||
| 2 | 3 | 4 Hanukkah Begins at Sunset | 5 | 6 Saint Nicholas Day | 7 Begining of the halcyon days | 8 |
| 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 Hanukkah ends at Sunset | 13 | 14 | 15 |
| 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 last of Halcyon days ends at sunset Eid ul-Adha Begins at Sunset 1st Night | 21 Winter Solstice (NH) Yule Mass on 2nd Night | 22 Chele/Yalda (wikipedia:Persian calendar) 3rd Night Event |
| 23 Festivus | 24 Last day of Eid ul-Adha Weinukkah</br> | 25 wikipedia:Christmas Kwanzaa could begin | 26 La an Dreolin (Ireland) at night, Feast of St. Junkanew | 27 Uwiha Ch'uyay (Bolivia) Chocolate robots? | 28 Dia de Innocentadas (Spain, Latin America) at night Mummers mass | 29Event? |
| 30 Rizal day (wikipedia:Philippines) wikipedia:DADA Night | 31 Day of reflection at sunset wikipedia:New Years Eve begins with 12th Night after midnight- First footing | 1 At dawn wikipedia:New Year's Day begins At Sunset Mothers' Night Begins | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
[edit] See Also
[edit] Holidays
- Winter Solstice
- Yule
- Twelfth Night
- New Year's Eve
- sca21:Buy Nothing Day
- sca21:Buy nothing Christmas
- Christmas worldwide
- sca21:Recycle at Christmas - personal options
[edit] wikipedia:Mummers
- best images come from a google image search, a lot of things seam to break down the human form to something else, colorful
- A lone garbage mummer
- wikipedia:Wren boys
- Hoodening
- origins?
- there called "trolls" in some countries
[edit] Cold Medicine
- wikipedia:Buttered rum-Thunderat has the recipe
- wikipedia:Wassail- Wassailing- when drunken children would roam the streets demanding food and mulled beer
- wikipedia:egg nog- staple of New years eve
- wikipedia:mead- honey brew. who thinks they can make this?
- wikipedia:glogg- sweet and spiced mulled till nice
- wikipedia:Hot cocoa- +cinnamon &/or brandy
- Yule ale- a spiced beer required by law in medieval Scandinavia
- wikipedia:hot toddy
- qǜ hán jiāo ěr tāng- Chinese emperor, Zhang Zhongjing required a specific Dumpling soup be served to the impoverished on Dong zhi
- yuzu tea- sweat citrus tea
[edit] Notes
- ↑ composed of the full range of earth tones mixed together
- ↑ Ghoust tradition of Ziemassvētki
- ↑ The purpose of the Eid khutba is to provide Muslims with a holistic perspective of their community, and strengthen their unity. Because Eid is a day of celebration, the khutba usually keeps clear from intense politics.
- ↑ This marks the First night of Eid ul-Adha
- ↑ The wikipedia:Dongzhi Festival is based on the Yin and Yang philosophy of balance and harmony in the cosmos, is observed all over Asia at the beginning of the Dong Zhi solar term.
- ↑ This is also the day that Buddhists honor wikipedia:Sanghamitta, bringer of the Bohdi tree to wikipedia:Srilanka
- ↑ The Japanese take hot baths full of citrus fruits called wikipedia:yuzu.
- ↑ Originally known as Deygan, "Shab e Cheleh" is an important social occasion in Persia, when family and friends get together for fun and merriment. Usually families gather at their elders homes. Candles and pungent smells are present. Different kinds of dried fruits, nuts, seeds and fresh winter fruits are eaten.
- ↑ Julbord is a type of wikipedia:smorgasbord, korsi is a low table
- ↑ As a Shab e Cheleh novelty, watermelons may appear at the Korsi, a traditional furniture similar to a very short table, around which the group will sit on the ground. On it, a wool blanket is thrown, people leave their legs under the blanket and some form of heater is placed inside the korsi.
- ↑ Goru is the winter solstice ceremony of the Pays wikipedia:Dogon of Mali. It is the last harvest ritual and celebrates the arrival of humanity from the sky god, Amma, transported by the horselike deity Nommo inside the Aduno Koro, or the "Ark of the World". The Dogon people give inspiration for their astronomical gnosticism despite having virtually no technology. In essence, the ritual reenacts the creation of the universe, life and humanity using food, containers and utensils. This poses a creative food serving endeavor for those who apply a scientific view. (ie: big bang-planets-life?) it is also a good time to make recognition to our technological fortune seeing that before information technology (ie: books, internet) all information had to be kept alive in the minds of generations through mnemonic traditions.
- ↑ balls of glutenous rice and a soup to save your ears (chinese legend, long story) is served for dinner during DongZhi
- ↑ Shabe Chele Tradition, as the table will be pretty hot by this point.
- ↑ which derives its fire elements from the ancient swedish Lussi night and celebration from the Slavic 'wikipedia:Karachun'
- ↑ The event takes place on the moment of the solstice between sunset and a determined time after midnight unless it occurs outside those times, in which case it takes place at either sunset or midnight.
- ↑ In Brighton UK, 'wikipedia:Burning the Clocks' is an urban procession in clock themed homemade masquerades in abstinence of holiday commercialism and observation of the death of the old year. It is often attended by many onlookers of the sometimes large animal-like lanterns constructed from paper and willow canes.
- ↑ The ancient Slavic night of the return of Koleda after his death as wikipedia:Hors, called 'Karachun' was observed on this night. In honor of the god Hors, Slavs danced a ritual chain-dance which was called the wikipedia:horo. Traditional chain-dancing in Bulgaria is still called horo. The dance is still very common for celebrations all over eastern Europe and Israel and has many derivative names.
- ↑ Chicago Marching Band
- ↑ Deygan and wikipedia:Sol Invictus celebrated the birth of wikipedia:Mithra, Sun god in the wikipedia:Zoroastrian religion of Iran, the oldest religion in the world. this was considered the first day of the sol invictus festival of roman empire and of ancient persians.
- ↑ Eid
- ↑ wikipedia:Humanists have cast wikipedia:HumanLight as a celebration of "a Humanist's vision of a good future." They celebrate a positive approach to the coming new year, generally through the lens of Humanist (and particularly secular humanist) philosophy—secular as opposed to religious, and with an emphasis on reason, compassion and hope. Humanists societies hold these events in most major cities. one can attend and meet other humanists, discuss Nietzschean overhumanism or try to be a posthumanist missionary and convert others attending. Chicago humanists however, hold the event on the 21st of December.
- ↑ 4:30 festivities begin in Daley plaza, 5pm tree lighting, christkindle market open till 9pm
- ↑ wikipedia:Brumalia was an ancient Greek solstice festival honoring wikipedia:Dionysus, generally held on December 25. The festival included drinking and merriment. The name is derived from the Greek word bruma, meaning "shortest day." In Roman festivals, the Brumalia was a feast of Bacchus, celebrated during the space of thirty days, commencing on November 24 and ending on December 24th. It was instituted by wikipedia:Romulus, who entertained the senate during this time. During this feast, prophetic indications were taken of the prospects for the remaining part of the winter.
- ↑ The Germanic Weihnachten is possibly derived from 'wine night', referencing wine mixing. khannuka is a celebration of the perserverance of jewish customs in the face of devistation. Oils are integral to this observance. Today Weihnukka, a 130 year old(from questionable source) hybrid holiday of Hannukka and Weihnachten
- ↑ wikipedia:Lenaia probably comes from lenai, another name for the wikipedia:Maenads, the female worshipers of Dionysus (Bacchus). The Lenaia is depicted on numerous vases, showing typical Maenad scenes, but also scenes of aristocrats and wine-mixing rituals. Beginning in the 5th century BC, plays were performed. At the Lenaia, five comedies were usually performed and there were also poetic contests.
- ↑ the celebration of the birth of Yeshuas of Nazerath (wikipedia:Jesus)
- ↑ Quoted to have said that it was not him who should be thanked "but God alone".
- ↑ wikipedia:christmas ham
- ↑ The kwanzaa candle lighting ritual is usually begun on the 26th but we are starting a day early to fit it in the schedule.
- ↑ At wikipedia:Kwanzaa Dinners, candles are lit to honor principles which can be discussed over dinner. This night a candle is lit for UMOJA (00-MOE-JAH) UNITY. This principle promotes the concept of togetherness, it is the basis for unity where in no unity there will be no chance for the survival of the family or the community. This principle promotes the open discussions between family members.
- ↑ Wales
- ↑ in various parts of Ireland, dressed in motley clothing, wearing masks or straw suits and accompanied by musicians — remembering a festival that was celebrated by the wikipedia:Druids. In the old days, young men and boys would capture a wikipedia:wren, and then go from house to house singing various traditional songs. such as 'the wren' or 'the Wren song' with many variants, folks often make one up as they go.
- ↑ In the west indies the parade is an old west african tradition called wikipedia:junkanoo. In 19th century north carolina it was called wikipedia:John Canoe. It is believed to be named after a west African prince
- ↑ On this day in 2002 the Raëlism movement's wikipedia:Clonaid company announced it had successfully cloned a human girl named Eve. Raëlism, a naturalist UFO religion, is one of the weirdest religions, bordering between suicide cult and performance art piece. The claim of a successful cloning is most likely a hoax but Raëlism brings attention to an intellectual following that brings up many interesting issues.
- ↑ Uwiha Ch'uyay is the sheep feeding ceremony of wikipedia:Bolivia. The ritual often includes lighting candles, dabbing the sheep's faces with red paint, adorning them with flowers and coraling them into male and female pairs as a form of mock wedding. The sheep are then fed cocoa, sometimes by force. Members of the household will often join in the ceremonies themselves adorning each other with flowers and so forth. Throughout the ceremony folk songs are sung for the sheep.
- ↑ julbok can be a goat figure, often made out of straw or roughly-hewn wood.
- ↑ In older Scandinavian society a popular prank was to place the Yule Goat in a neighbor's house without them noticing; the family successfully pranked had to get rid of it in the same way.
- ↑ In wikipedia:Spain and wikipedia:Ibero-America, December 28 is a day for pranks, similar to wikipedia:April Fool's Day in many countries. Pranks are known as inocentadas and their victims are called inocentes, or alternatively, the pranksters are the "inocentes" and the victims should not be angry at them, since they could not have committed any "sin".
- ↑ A mexican tradition on new years is to hang Sheep dolls (usually made of wool) on doorknobs for prosperity.
- ↑ Scape goat
- ↑ wikipedia:Makar Sankranti, early in the morning, people all over south asia dress in fine clothes and climb onto the roof of their houses to relax and enjoy the day. In observation of Lohri, the sky becomes filled with colorful kites. Kites are cut out and flown all day. Kapyo che 'I cut the kites' along with other kite carols are sung. In parts of India Makar Sankranti is celebrated by taking dips in the Ganga or any river, offering water to the Sun god and going to Melas (fairs). The dip is said to purify the self and bestow punya. Ideally, skinny dipping in hot springs would be preferred. Since the festival is celebrated in the mid winter, the food prepared for this festival are such that they keep the body warm and give high energy. Laddu of til made with Jaggery (Gur) and "Tal-sankadi" and "chiki", sweets like a sesame bar and peanut bar are specialties of the festival.
- ↑ In the wikipedia:Philippines this day is Rizal Day in honor of wikipedia:José Rizal, a pacifist political activist, polymath, freethinker and catholic heretic who was martyred on December 30th 1896 as a suspected 'revolutionary' in his cause for government reforms. Freedom day, according to the Church of Scientology, is the day that celebrates the official recognition in 1974 of the Church of Scientology in the United States. This date is also proximal to Watch night, the anniversary of January 1, 1863 when Slavery was emancipated in the USA. By any account this is a good day to celebrate our freedom of religion, freedom of thought and freedom of will, but also a good day to act like a lunatic. (this can be over dyanetics, or any religion for that matter but also celebrities or just plain crazy) While we may exist in a deterministic universe that doesn't revoke our relative free will.
- ↑ wikipedia:Nietzsche recognized this day as a day of quiet reflection
- ↑ Spain and Mexico recognize it as customary for singles to wear red underwear on this day for luck or love
- ↑ "new years carols"
1st choir:
Shchedrik, shchedrik, shchedrivochka
Shchedrik, shchedrik, shchedrivochka
in to the house
flew a swallow
start-ed to sing
Call-ing fellows
"Come, come, and see
Come, see your home
trees, bowed with snow
win-dows a-glow"
2nd choir:
"You are so rich.
Your wife's pretty (and so pretty)
if in a ditch
you'd be happy"
Shchedrik, shchedrik, shchedrivochka
Shchedrik, shchedrik, shchedrivochka
and so on - ↑ Silvester or wikipedia:Shchedryk is the beginning of the end of Yule. It is the New Years Eve celebration of Germany and Slavic countries traditionally marked in Russia with the dressing in colorful masquerade
- ↑ In Scotland wikipedia:Hogmanay, is first observed with everyone gathering in the Town center to observe the countdown, fixating on a large timing mechanism. Usually fireworks are ignited or yule decorations burned at the stroke of midnight. then parties travel from house to house with a dark haired man leading the entrance to each home.
- ↑ Some cities like philidelphia, have a wikipedia:mummers parade during the day
- ↑ Mexico
- ↑ Scotland
- ↑ Dixie
- ↑ Ireland
- ↑ Modresnacht was believed in Germanic and Anglo-Saxon folklore to bring prophetic dreams of the coming year