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current traditions, though. In some cases, even when there's a clear origin relation, those origins may even be categorically denied by practitioners (i.e. dismissed as pagan, etc). Often, the extant religions and nations have their own fundational myths which conflict with, or were designed to distinguish from earlier traditions. When these myths were not designed as such, we can also understand that after generations, wars, migrations and language transformations, people easily forget their origins; which is why we need archeology, history, anthropology, genealogy, molecular genetics (i.e. haplotypes), etc...
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Is this really the same as Sacaea? I've read the Golden Bough and the Oxford
Classical Dictionary and both describe Sacaea as a festival where slaves rule their masters and a condemned criminal is made king for 5 days before he is executed. This isn't mentioned in the article (and it is likely of the
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I'm not sure what the original contributor meant to say, but Aviv is the Hebrew month that comes before Nissan. And all months begin on the new moon. So the new moon of Aviv doesn't start the
Ecclesiastic year, New Moon of Nissan does. Also the paragraph makes it sound like the new moon of Aviv is
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I am not sure why we should specify the plural. Fwiiw, MEĹ (not MES) is just an orthographical plural marker you can suffix to anything, so it doesn't impart any information to state that the plural of akitum is akitum.MEĹ . This also isn't about
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Western calendar was adopted by the Chicago-based ASSYRIAN Church of the East, a step meeting with such resistance as to lead to schism with the OLD Church of the East (Patriarch: Mar Addai II at Baghdâd. Transliteration is HaD b-Nisan "First of
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Thanksgiving before, but I remember reading about the origins of Easter and Passover possibly being derived from earlier spring festivals, including Akitu. It is incorrect to assume that a people must acknowledge the far-past origins of their
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I'm fairly sure they got "Gregorian" confused with "Julian". Or it's just terribly worded and should be something like "the
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I can't imagine how this could be true. The natives couldn't possibly have known of this festival and I doubt the pilgrims would have either. If it's sourced put it up, but if the sources are fringe scholars the material will be deleted.
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