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Most pagan groups (especially those of the Celtic tradition) celebrate the New Year on the festival of Samhain (pronounced "s'how-in") on Oct. 31st, and more commonly known as Halloween. Some Nordic pagan groups have Yule as their New Year's festival, and some Neo-classicists celebrate the New Year on either Jan. 1st or on the date of the Vernal Equinox. There is no actual numbering of calendar years for the vast majority of these modern pagan groups, as practically all of them claim to be unbroken continuations of The Old Religions which pre-dated Christianity.
The Church of Satan, however, differs from most other pagan groups by openly admitting that it is a new religion, having been founded on Walpurgisnacht (the last night in the month of April) in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Satanists therefore regard the evening of April 30th as the start of each New Year, which immediately leads into the next day's traditional pagan celebration of Beltane (May 1st).
The Satanic Calendar calculates Year One as having begun on April 30, 1966. Therefore we are currently in the Year XXXV A.S. (35 Anno Satanis). On April 30th of 2001, it will be XXXVI A.S.
Sounds like you had a great New Year's celebration in Constitution Square! Did you get the day off from work today? I did! :)
-- Nanaea
The Church of Satan, however, differs from most other pagan groups by openly admitting that it is a new religion, having been founded on Walpurgisnacht (the last night in the month of April) in 1966 by Anton LaVey. Satanists therefore regard the evening of April 30th as the start of each New Year, which immediately leads into the next day's traditional pagan celebration of Beltane (May 1st).
The Satanic Calendar calculates Year One as having begun on April 30, 1966. Therefore we are currently in the Year XXXV A.S. (35 Anno Satanis). On April 30th of 2001, it will be XXXVI A.S.
Sounds like you had a great New Year's celebration in Constitution Square! Did you get the day off from work today? I did! :)
-- Nanaea
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I predate the Satanic Calendar by 3 years, gee that makes me feel Prehistoric (but *not*
jurassic, as presumably is Daividh!).
The Constitution Square festivities were fun despite the rain and cold. Last year's was my all-time
favorite celebration, we saw the sun rise from the Temple of Poseidon at cape Sounion.
Although industrious and hardworking abroad, we Greeks love to take things easy at home, hence
our plethora of state-sancioned holidays including today's :)
We all feel poorer today, having lost our Drachma. The next few days will be an excremental
mess for everyone, as we will all have to think in terms of the new Euro currency dividing
everything by 340.75.
P.S. Daividh: 1 Euro=one pita-gyro.
jurassic, as presumably is Daividh!).
The Constitution Square festivities were fun despite the rain and cold. Last year's was my all-time
favorite celebration, we saw the sun rise from the Temple of Poseidon at cape Sounion.
Although industrious and hardworking abroad, we Greeks love to take things easy at home, hence
our plethora of state-sancioned holidays including today's :)
We all feel poorer today, having lost our Drachma. The next few days will be an excremental
mess for everyone, as we will all have to think in terms of the new Euro currency dividing
everything by 340.75.
P.S. Daividh: 1 Euro=one pita-gyro.
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That's worth about US $3.95 around here (the gyro, not the Euro), which is cheap. Come to think of it, why don't you guys just call the Belgiebucks the "Gyro"? I believe the pronunciation is pretty close, and you'd have more of a feeling of empowerment. And it's less hazardous than getting shitfaced on ouzo and going out beating up Turks.
Ahh, three years before the Satanic calendar. I believe I had an after-school grocery clerk job at that time. (Which makes me downright Devonian, not Jurassic.)
Ahh, three years before the Satanic calendar. I believe I had an after-school grocery clerk job at that time. (Which makes me downright Devonian, not Jurassic.)
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I was so intrigued by your mention of the sun rising from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, that I just had to find a picture of this temple somewhere on the 'net. And I did!
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~yychang/Greece.html
But alas! What was Lord Byron thinking of when he graffiti'ed that beautiful temple????
-- Nanaea
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~yychang/Greece.html
But alas! What was Lord Byron thinking of when he graffiti'ed that beautiful temple????
-- Nanaea
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Tsk-tsk. Out your way they'd call something like that "the South Bronx", and avoid it instead of rhapsodizing on it. (Say, is that Yankee Stadium in the background?)
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Maybe he was a bad speller, and was bidding farewell to his, uh, "friend", Ron.
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