MERRY SOLSTICE 2011

The sun will come out

Merry Soltice/Yule/Lunar Eclipse 2010

Longest Night

Observances

3.1 Amaterasu celebration, Requiem of the Dead (7th century Japan)
3.2 Beiwe Festival (Sámi of Northern Fennoscandia)
3.3 Choimus, Chaomos (Kalash of Pakistan)
3.4 Christmas, Natalis Domini (4th century Rome, 11th century England, Christian)
3.5 Deuorius Riuri (Gaul)
3.6 Deygān (Zoroastrian)
3.7 DōngZhì Festival, Tōji Festival (East Asia, Vietnam, and Buddhist)
3.8 Goru (Dogon of Mali)
3.9 Hogmanay (Scotland)
3.10 Inti Raymi (Inca, Peru)
3.11 Junkanoo, Jonkonnu, John Canoe (West Africa, Bahamas, Jamaica, 19th-century North Carolina)

3.12 Karachun (Ancient Western Slavic)
3.13 Koleda, Коляда, Sviatki, Dazh Boh (Ancient Eastern Slavic and Sarmatian)
3.14 Lenæa, Brumalia (Ancient and Hellenistic Greece, Roman Kingdom)
3.15 Lucia, Feast of St. Lucy (Ancient Swedish, Scandinavian Lutheran, Eastern Orthodox)
3.16 Makara Sankranti (India and Nepal, Hindu)
3.17 Meán Geimhridh, Celtic Midwinter (Celtic, Ancient Welsh, Neodruidic)
3.17.1 Mummer's Day (Celtic, Cornish)
3.17.2 Wren day (Celtic, Irish, Welsh, Manx)
3.17.3 Alban Arthan (Neodruidic)

3.18 Midvinterblót (Swedish folk religion)
3.19 Modranicht, Modresnach (Germanic)
3.20 Perchta ritual (Germania, Alps)
3.21 Rozhanitsa Feast (12th century Eastern Slavic Russian)
3.22 Shabe Celle, یلدا , Yaldā (2nd millennium BCE Persian, Iranian)
3.23 Sanghamitta Day (Buddhist)
3.24 Saturnalia, Chronia (Ancient Greek, Roman Republic)
3.25 Şeva Zistanê (Kurdish)

3.26 Sol Invictus Festival (3rd century Roman Empire)

3.27 Soyal (Zuni and Hopi of North America)
3.28 Tekufat Tevet (Jewish)
3.29 Wayeb (Maya)
3.30 Yule, Jul, Jól, Joul, Joulu, Jõulud, Géol, Geul (Viking Age, Northern Europe, and Germanic cultures)
3.30.1 Jul (Germanic Neopaganism)
3.30.2 Yule (Wiccan)
3.31 Zagmuk, Sacaea (Ancient Mesopotamia, Sumerian, Babylonian)
3.32 Ziemassvētki (Latvian, Baltic, Romuva)