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 Goddess Day of
Meng Jiangnu (Pumpkin Girl),
China
"It was said that 2,000 years ago when Qin Shihuang (the First Emperor of the
Qin) was building the Great Wall, a young [man] called Fan Xiliang was forced to work on the construction of the Great Wall even on his wedding day. Before Fan Xiliang went away, his bride, a girl named Meng
Jiangnu, took her white jade hairpin and broke it into two halves and gave her husband one half as a token of love. Meng Jiangnu waited for her husband at home for five years but did not hear a word from him. One night, Meng Jiangnu had a bad dream. She dreamed that her husband was constantly yelling:
'Cold, cold!' She recalled that her husband was wearing very thin clothes. Very soon, she made some padded clothes and set off alone to look for
Xiliang. After walking all the way on foot, crossing mountains and rivers, Meng Jiangnu finally got to the construction site of the Great Wall where she was told that her husband had died and was buried under the Great Wall. Hearing this sad news of the death of her beloved, she sat down at the foot of the Great Wall and started crying. She cried day and night, and her wailing made the wall fall. She finally saw her husband's bones under the wall . This made Qin Shihuang very angry, and he ordered Meng Jiangnu to be punished. When he saw the young lady, however, he was immediately attracted by her beauty. He asked her to marry him. Meng Jiangnu had to agree but asked for a grand funeral for her husband. After the funeral, she and Qin Shihuang went for a trip on the Bohai Sea. How could she marry the tyrant who had killed her husband? She could not, so she jumped into the sea unseen by the guards. Now on the shore of the Bohai Sea, beyond Shanhaiguan Pass there are two black rocky reefs. According to legend, the round one is Meng Jiangnu's tomb and the square one is her tomb tablet. Not far from her tomb, a temple was built on a small hill to commemorate the lady of chastity. Visitors to Shanhaiguan Pass should not miss the chance to see her
'tomb' and temple."
Source
 "Meng Jiangnu was a pumpkin girl born from two different vines and united two families. Pumpkin soup is on the menu today. Eating of this soup reaffirms community spirit and ensures a good pumpkin harvest the next year. Pumpkin bread makes a good breakfast, especially when shared with family and friends on this day. Buttered squash is also good to enjoy on this day and how about some pie for dessert after dinner to bring sweetness to your relationships. Pumpkin magic can be done by carving a symbol of your needs into a pumpkin and lighting a candle inside the pumpkin so
"pumpkin girl" can lend her energy to the situation and begin the healing process.
Just for the fun of it, here are some recipes to try out!
Curried Pumpkin-Apple Soup
1/4 cup butter
1 clove garlic1 onion
1 leek
1 large apple, peeled and chopped
1 tbsp curry powder
2 cups chopped fresh pumpkin
4 cups stock (1 use chicken or vegetable stock)
1 cup whipping cream
salt and pepper
apple wedges
Melt butter in saucepan. Saute garlic, onion, leek and apple. Stir in curry powder and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add pumpkin and stock. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat and simmer until veggies are tender. Puree all in blender or food processor. Return to saucepan and stir in all of cream but 2 tablespoons. Season with salt and pepper. When serving garnish with fresh apple wedges, and pour a bit of cream over top. Looks pretty! Serves 6-8."
Source: The
HearthStone ~ Ravenhold Calendar (also source of commemoration
date)
Day of Bel and Beltis, Babylonia
Sun God and Love Goddess.
Source: The Phoenix and
Arabeth 1992 Calendar
 
Feast day of Astraea
(Star-maiden), ancient Greece
In Greek mythology, Astraea, or 'Star-maiden' was a daughter of
Zeus and Themis and had the power to bestow wealth, victory, wisdom, and good luck.
She and her mother were both personifications of justice.
Astraea was the
last of the immortals to live with humans during the Golden
Age. As mankind became wicked, she was the last to stay on
earth, ascending to heaven to take her final place among
the stars in the constellation
Virgo;
the scales of justice she carried became the nearby constellation Libra.
Astraea is also the symbol for the
Tarot card, Justice.
Source of date
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
Greater Eleusinian
Mysteries, ancient Greece
(Sep 10 - 19)
Third
day: the initiates walked to the sea at Phaleron
and purified themselves in the water.
On the third day offerings are made, "also barley from a field of Eleusis".
John
Lempriere (c. 1765 - February 1, 1824), Bibliotheca
Classica or Classical Dictionary (1788), Hippocrene
Books, 1986
Source
A note about the
dating of items in Wilson's Almanac
Circensian
games, ancient
Rome (Apr 12 - 19; Sep 4 - 19)
Ganesh
Chaturthi (Hinduism; date
varies annually, approx.
Aug 20
to Sep 15)
Feast
day of St Albeus, bishop and confessor
Feast day of St Ailbe (Albeus;
Ailbhe) of Emly
Feast day of St Apollinaris
"A Franciscan missionary
to Japan during the 17th century, when Christianity was a
capital offense. Soon after his arrival, he was jailed and spent
over five years on death row, converting his jailers, ministering to
other prisoners, and spreading word of Christianity. He was burned
alive with other Franciscan prisoners 1622."
Source:
Earth, Moon and Sky
Feast day of St Autonomus of
Bithynia
Feast day of St Anonymus of
Alcoholia
Feast day of St Curonotus
Feast day of St Feast day of St
Eanswida of
Folkestone
(Eanswide), virgin and abbess (Semilunar passion flower, Passiflora peltate, is
today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Patronage includes animals with horns.
Feast day of St Francis of Saint
Bonaventure
Feast day of St Guy of
Anderlecht (The Poor Man of Anderlecht), confessor
"Born to poverty in Brussels,
Belgium, he embraced his poverty as God's will. At one point he was
given a chance to invest in a sea expedition that could have made
him rich; when the ship sank he took it as a sign and walked all the
way to Rome as penance for his greediness. He then walked to
Jerusalem and worked as a guide to pilgrims, then returned to
Brussels where he died of natural causes. Though he never joined any
order or house, he vowed chastity and devoted most of his time to
prayer and work as a sacristan. Patron of bachelors and sacristans."
Source:
Earth, Moon and Sky
Feast
day of St Hieronides
Feast
day of Blessed Juvenal
Ancina
Feast day of St Macedonius
Feast day of the Most Holy
Name of Mary
Feast day of St Peter Paul of
Saint Claire
Feast day of Ss Peter, Paul and
Mary
Feast day of Blessed Sacerdos
Feast day of Blessed Thomas
Zumarraga and Mancius of Saint Thomas
Feast
day of St Victoria
Strata
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Ginger
Festival, at Daijin Shrine, Tokyo, Japan (Sep 11 - 21)
Celebration
day for Oshùn, Voudon
(Voodoo) Source
Feast
of San
Gennaro, New York, USA (c. Sep 11 - 22)
Celebration of Gahambar
Paitishahem, for Paitishahem the Corn-giver, Zoroastrian (Sep 12 -
16)
Celebrating the creation of the earth and the harvesting of the summer crops.
See also September
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
National
Day, Cape
Verde
National Revolution Day (1974),
Ethiopia
Defenders
Day, Maryland
(United
States)
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1449 Lorenzo de Medici (d. 1492), Italian
politician
1570
Henry Hudson
(likely birth date; presumed to have died in 1611
somewhere in Hudson
Bay, Canada),
English
sea
explorer and navigator
Biography
at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The
life and times of Henry Hudson, explorer and adventurer
Henry
Hudson - A Brief Statement Of His Aims And His Achievements
1812
Richard
March Hoe (d. 1886), inventor, industrialist
1818 Richard Gatling (d. 1903), inventor of the Gatling
gun
1852
Herbert Henry
Asquith, British Liberal Prime Minister
1880 HL Mencken (d. January
29, 1956),
American journalist,
satirist,
and social
critic, a cynic
and a freethinker,
known as the 'Sage of Baltimore' and the 'American Nietzsche'
1888 Maurice Chevalier (d. 1972),
French actor
1891 Don Pedro Albizu Campos (d. 1965), advocate for
Puerto Rican independence
1892 Alfred A Knopf (d. 1984), American publisher
1897 Irene Joliot-Curie (d. 1956), scientist
1901
Ben Blue (d. 1975), vaudeville
star
1902 Margaret Hamilton (d. 1985), actress
1907 Louis
MacNeice,
Irish poet and playwright
1913 Jesse Owens (d. March 31, 1980),
African-American athlete,
winner of four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
The myth of Hitler's pique
"The Olympic victories had particular savor
because Adolf Hitler had intended to use the games
to promote 'Aryan superiority'. A persistent myth has grown up that
Hitler, who had criticized African-American athletes as 'black
auxiliaries' and 'non-humans', was in the stadium for some of Owens'
events but had refused to acknowledge him after his remarkable
performances. In fact Hitler was absent on the days in question and
the German athletes and German public welcomed and praised Owens,
just like everyone else."
Source: Wikipedia
1914 Desmond Llewelyn (d. 1999), actor
1915
Frank McGee (d. 1974), journalist
1921 Stanislaw Lem, science fiction writer
1931 Sir Ian
Holm, actor
1931 George
Jones, country music singer
1943
Maria Muldaur, singer
1943 Michael Ondaatje, author and poet
 1944
Leonard
Peltier,
Native American activist and member of the
American Indian Movement. In
1977 he was
convicted and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life
imprisonment for the murders of two
FBI
agents who died during a 1975 shoot-out on the
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. There has
been considerable debate over Peltier's guilt and the fairness of
his trial.
Peltier has been in prison since
February 6,
1976, which is now known as
International Day in Solidarity with Leonard Peltier.
Peltier is
considered by many to be a
political
prisoner and has received support from individuals and groups
including
Nelson Mandela,
Rigoberta
Menchú,
Amnesty
International, the
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights,
Tenzin Gyatso
(the 14th Dalai Lama), the
European
Parliament, the
Belgian
Parliament, the
Italian
Parliament, the Kennedy Memorial Center for Human Rights,
Archbishop
Desmond Tutu, Rev.
Jesse Jackson,
Michael
Apted,
Kris Kristofferson,
Peter
Matthiessen,
Madonna,
Bono,
Sting,
Vivienne
Westwood,
Giorgio
Armani,
Cher,
Kylie Minogue,
Elton John,
Oliver Stone,
Danielle
Mitterrand,
Mikhail
Gorbachev,
Raquel Welch,
Joan Collins,
Ozzy Osbourne,
Bianca Jagger
and Kate
Moss.
Leonard Peltier
case chronology
No
Parole Peltier Association
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Protest pictures (current)
1944 Barry
White (d. 2003), American singer
1951 Joe Pantoliano, actor (The
Matrix, The Sopranos)
1952 Neil
Peart, musician
1954
Peter Scolari, actor
1957 Rachel
Ward, actress
1966 Ben
Folds, musician
1973
Paul
Walker, actor
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