Socyberty » feasts http://socyberty.com Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:42:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Historical Significance of Feasts and Festivals http://socyberty.com/holidays/historical-significance-of-feasts-and-festivals/ http://socyberty.com/holidays/historical-significance-of-feasts-and-festivals/#comments Sat, 08 May 2010 22:07:17 +0000 Lenjur http://socyberty.com/holidays/historical-significance-of-feasts-and-festivals/ A distinction may be made between feasts as celebrations at which food and drink are served, and festivals which do not include eating and drinking, for example, as a music festival. Although most festivals and feasts are religious in origin, many have a political and civic background. As religious they stemmed from nature worship and ancestor worship, and were also rituals within the cult of the dead.

Nature worship, particularly common among nomadic peoples, entailed reverence toward the sun and moon, and rites centering in solar and lunar feasts. Complex societies, with their political crises and wars of conquest and of deliverance, establish feasts of victory, of thanksgiving, and of veneration for great leaders.

Festival in Cambridge via Wikipedia

Greek and Roman festivals honored and propitiated their innumerable gods and goddesses and commemorated heroic deeds on the battlefield. Feasts and festivals are social in character, they express emotions common to a whole community, tribe, clan, or nation, and are an index of the social level of a particular society.

Festival in Japan via Wikipedia

In the past, sacred festivals were often occasions for orgies and the temporary cessation of taboos for all classes, including the slaves. They express a means of relaxation after long tensions and a means of recovering strength for possible forthcoming crises.

Among primitive peoples were also rites of sacramental eating preliminary to the general use of the harvest. In more advanced cultures this rite developed into an act of sacrificing a portion of the first fruits to the spirits or gods, expressing thanksgiving for a good harvest.

Feasts and festivals are more numerous and elaborate among civilized peoples, and are fixed by calendars of sacred seasons regulated by priests. Festival days are also rest days, for this reason, such days are popular among peasants and artisans, in particular, but they provide also, for all social ranks, pageants, processions, games, feasts, and general merry-making.

]]> http://socyberty.com/holidays/historical-significance-of-feasts-and-festivals/feed/ 7 The Sweet and Pastry Factory: The Halloween Event http://socyberty.com/holidays/the-sweet-and-pastry-factory-the-halloween-event/ http://socyberty.com/holidays/the-sweet-and-pastry-factory-the-halloween-event/#comments Sun, 27 Sep 2009 15:35:58 +0000 Inashaza http://socyberty.com/holidays/the-sweet-and-pastry-factory-the-halloween-event/ Halloween is a feast that is celebrated in North America for example in Canada and the United States of America. Children and parents benefit from the feast of Halloween because they meet their neighbours by giving them gifts that will strengthen friendship especially because North America is not very populated and this is a way of welcoming. The feast of Halloween happens in the end of October more precisely on the 31st of October before all Saints days that is more celebrated in Latin America. The end of October is when all the leaves are supposed to become yellow and fall on the ground. Halloween as the word makes as think that there is a hallo meaning light reminds us that the populations should go green and pick up all the leaves to transform them in biogaz energy that will help mothers cook dinner for their children during the long winters and of cause prepare bread and some very good pastry that pleases not only the tongue but also the stomach. Halloween is celebrated and their is no doubt that it is very well announced to the populations and the word you will here at that occasion is: “Treat or Tricks”.  Depending on how you feel you will respond treats or tricks.  Most people will opt for treats because they are scared of tricks.

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Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. It doesn’t seem to be as materialistic as other holidays sometimes have become. Normally, my family gathers to watch “The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade”. Later in the day we gather at relatives homes for dinner.

In some cases Thanksgiving has been credited with coming into being in 1621. This was at first thought to be the celebration of the end of the harvest season.

Thanksgiving was often held in a haphazard fashion at different times. For example;

George Washington created the first Thanksgiving holiday in the United States on November 26,1789.

Franklin D. Roosevelt formally declared the fourth Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving. He signed this into law in 1941.

Thanksgiving is generally the busiest holiday for traveling of the year.

The Christmas holiday shopping was not supposed to kick off until at least the day after Thanksgiving.

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