Winter Finding, Second Station of the Year, Norse (Phoenix and Arabeth 1992 ... maybe not solar calendar)

Festival of the Sea Goddess, Inuit mythology

Sedna the Shaman has to go to her abode at the bottom of the sea and make a deal for good hunting weather. In Inuit mythology, Sedna (Inuktitut Sanna) is a sea goddess and master of the animals, especially mammals such as seals, of the ocean. According to one myth, Sedna lives in and rules over the bottom of the sea (Adlivun) the Inuit underworld where she spends here days amidst whales and other marine creatures. Sedna is also known as Arnakuagsak or Arnarquagssaq (Greenland) and Nerrivik or Nuliajuk (Alaska). Although Sedna is sometimes thought to predominate throughout the Canadian Arctic she was known by other names by different Inuit groups. One example of this is Arnapkapfaaluk (big bad woman) of the Copper Inuit from the Coronation Gulf area. Her name was taken also to name a new disputed "tenth" planet, 90377 Sedna, as discovered by Michael Brown (Caltech), Chad Trujillo (Gemini Observatory) and David Rabinowitz (Yale University) on November 14, 2003.

"She is usually pictured in Inuit soapstone carvings as being fish from the waste [sic] down and human from the waste up with long hair, but Sedna is no mermaid. As goddess of the ocean, Sedna sets strict rules about the proper way to treat the animals of the hunt which the Inuit require for sustenance. This includes proper treatment of the animals' spirit when killed for food. When she feels the rules have been broken, she cuts off the supply of food. When that happens the Inuit tribal shaman is required to take a shaman's journey to the bottom of the ocean to speak to the goddess. It is considered the most dangerous journey an Inuit shaman is called upon to make."   Source

Deities of many cultures in the Book of Days     More    More   And more

Feast of Carpo (one of the Horae), goddess of Autumn whose name denotes budding

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Sacaea, ancient Persia
Source: The Phoenix and Arabeth 1992 Calendar

Feast day of St Candidus

Feast day of St Carmelo Sastre Sastre

Feast day of Ss Digna and Emerita

Feast day of St Emmeram of Regensburg (Emmeramus; Emmeran; Emeran; Heimrammi; Haimeran; Heimeran), Bishop of Poitiers
Christian martyr, born into a noble family in Aquitaine; died c. 652. Bishop Arbeo of Freising depicted the place of his death as a "lovely, ever spring-green place, upon which a spring appeared and the local people later built a little church". Emmeram was entombed in Aschheim, whereupon it allegedly rained for 40 days. Emmeram was exhumed and put upon a raft in the Isar. When the raft reached the Danube, it miraculously floated upstream to Regensburg, where Emmeram was laid to rest in the church of St George.

Feast day of St Exuperius

Feast day of St Ignatius of Santhia

Feast day of St Innocent

Feast day of St Irais

Feast day of St Jonas

Feast day of St Lindru

Feast day of St Martyrs of Valencia, Spain

Feast day of St Maurice, and his Companions, Martyrs of the Theban Legion
(Tree boletus, Boletus arborens, is today's plant, dedicated to this saint.)
Saint Maurice became a patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors. He is traditionally depicted in full armour, in Italy emblazoned with a red cross. He is often shown as a Moor. In folk culture he has become connected with the legend of the Spear of Destiny, which he is supposed to have carried into battle; his name is engraved on the Holy Lance of Vienna, one of several relics claimed as the spear that pierced Jesus' side on the cross.

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Feast day of St Vitalis

Feast day of St Victor

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Feast of San Gennaro, New York, USA (c. Sep 11 - 22)

Oktoberfest (Sep 20 - Oct 5)

Independence Day, Mali (from France, 1960)

Car Free Day, in Europe and in cities throughout the world

Aizu Byakko Matsuri, (Aizu) Byakko Festival, Aizuwakamatsu-shi, Fukushima, Japan (Sep 22 - 24)
"700 warriors parade reconstructs the scene of famous battle in which young boy soldiers of this districts known as Byakkotai army corps fought and died in 1868."   Source

Hobbit Day
The debated birthday of the fictitious Hobbits Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy.

OneWebDay
OneWebDay is a day when users of the World Wide Web are encouraged to show how the Internet affects their lives.

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1515 Anne of Cleves (d. July 16, 1557) was the queen consort of Henry VIII of England from January 6, 1540 till the marriage's annulment on July 9, 1540. Folklore has it that when Henry met her, he found her singularly unattractive and pronounced her as looking like a "Flanders mare". Most historians, however, doubt that there is any truth in this tale. Portraits of her don't reveal an especially ugly woman, but of course the artists might have painted to flatter.

1547 Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin (d. 1590), German philologist and poet

1593 Matthäus Merian (d. 1650), Swiss engraver

1601 Anne of Austria, (d. 1666) queen of Louis XIII of France

1606 Li Zicheng (d. 1645), Chinese rebel

1680 Barthold Heinrich Brockes (d. 1747), German poet

1741 Peter Simon Pallas (d. 1811), German zoologist

1788 Theodore Edward Hook (d. 1841), English author

1791 Michael Faraday (d. August 25, 1867), English scientist who contributed to the field of electromagnetism, invented the Bunsen burner and discovered electromagnetic induction

1819 Wilhelm Wattenbach (d. 1897), German historian

1871 Shusui Denjiro Kotoku (d. January 24, 1911), journalist, writer, one of the most outstanding figures of Japanese anarchism. Imprisoned for articles against the Russo-Japanese War, where he discovered Peter Kropotkin's works. Active in organizing the trade union movement before being arrested January 18, 1911 with 24 others for a plot on the emperor. On January 24, 1911 Kotoku and eleven other anarchists were hanged, including his partner Yugetsu Sugo Kanno. Kotoku wrote Imperialism, Monster of the Twentieth Century, The Gasoline of Socialism, and other books and articles.

Source: The Daily Bleed

The Anarchist Movement in Japan   Japanese Anarchism Bibliography

1878 Yoshida Shigeru (d. 1967), Prime Minister of Japan

1880 Dame Christabel Pankhurst (d. 1958), English suffragette, eldest daughter of Dr Richard Pankhurst and Emmeline Pankhurst. Her sisters were Sylvia and Adela Pankhurst.

Born in Manchester, England, in 1903 she co-founded the Women's Social and Political Union. She was once jailed for assaulting police. In 1921, Christabel went to reside in the United States where she became a prominent member in the Second Adventist movement. Christabel lectured and wrote books on the Second Coming. She returned to Britain in the 1930s but left for the USA at the start of the World War II. Christabel Pankhurst died in America in 1958.

"Christabel Harriette Pankhurst, Organizing Secretary of the Women's Social and Political Union and editor of The Suffragette, c1909. The eldest Pankhurst daughter, Christabel had a first class degree in Law from Owen's College, Victoria University, Manchester, and a prize for international law. However, because she was a woman she was not allowed to practice as a lawyer. She devoted her considerable talent to the WSPU; she was a brilliant and popular speaker who could inspire great loyalty. Frequent parallels were drawn between her and Joan of Arc. She and Annie Kenney started militant tactics in 1905 when they continually interrupted a Liberal meeting at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, asking when the Liberal Party would give women the vote. They were thrown out, arrested, refused to pay a fine to avoid prison and were sentenced to seven days. Christabel went to prison twice more in 1907 and 1908 and finally fled the country, exiling herself in Paris in March 1912 to avoid the conspiracy charges her mother Emmeline faced. She led the WSPU, and edited the Suffragette newspaper from Paris and did not return to England until after the outbreak of the First World War."   Source

Early progressives in the Book of Days

Pankhurst photos    A world chronology of women's suffrage

1885 Ben Chifley (d. 1951), Australian Labor Prime Minister of Australia from 1945 - '49. Son of a blacksmith of Irish Catholic descent, a train driver then head of the Railworkers Union, he rose to Treasurer in the John Curtin wartime government. As Prime Minister he nationalised the airline Qantas (sold to private ownership by a later Labor Prime Minister) and vigorously campaigned on public health issues. Chifley's 'Light on the hill' speech, though brief and unadorned, has inspired generations in the Australian Labor movement since it was made on June 12, 1949. (More on speech.)

Australian Prime Ministers

1885 Erich von Stroheim (d. 1957), Austrian-born Hollywood film director

"Bald-pated, monocled, Teutonic terror frequently billed as "the man you love to hate," the skillful delineator of stern, autocratic Prussian and Nazi officers, but also a brilliant (if wildly extravagant) director whose Greed (1924) still ranks among the greatest achievements in cinema history. Variously described as a scion of Prussian nobility and a highranking career Army officer (he only served briefly, although he retained a fascination for all things military), he was in fact the supervisor of his father's strawhat factory in Vienna before emigrating to America several years before World War 1."   Source

1895 Paul Muni (d. 1967), Academy Award winning actor

1898 R Gordon Wasson (d. December 23, 1986; pictured with his wife Valentina Guercken), American international banker, amateur mycologist, and author whose interest in mushrooms led him to Mexico in 1953 where he eventually met the Mazatec curandera (shaman, or spirit-healer), Maria Sabina (1898 - 1985),  who initiated Wasson into the experience of entheogenic psilocybin mushrooms (Psilocybe caerulescens var. Psilocybe caerulescens var. mazatecorum).

From Wikipedia: Wasson's studies in "ethnomycology" begun on his honeymoon trip to the Catskill Mountains, when his wife, Valentina Pavlovna Guercken, chanced upon some edible wild mushrooms. The marked difference in cultural attitudes towards the fungus kingdom in Russia compared to the United States fascinated the pair, and led to the writing of the book Mushrooms, Russia and History 1957.

In the course of their investigations, they mounted expeditions to Mexico to study the religious use of mushrooms by the native inhabitants, and became the first westerners to participate in a Mazatec sacred mushroom ritual. In 1957, their experiences were published in a Life magazine article (Seeking the Magic Mushroom), bringing knowledge of the existence of psychoactive mushrooms to a wide audience for the first time. Through his collaboration with Roger Heim, the mushrooms were subjected to scientific study, and eventually the chemical structure of the active compounds, psilocybin and psilocin were determined by Albert Hofmann, using material grown by Heim from collections made on expedition with Wasson. Two species of mushroom, Psilocybe wassonii Heim and Psilocybe wassonorum Guzman were named in honour of R Gordon Wasson. Also in collaboration with Albert Hofmann, RG Wasson was the first westerner to make a botanical collection of the Mazatec hallucinogen Salvia divinorum, leading to its description as a new species, and bringing it into cultivation outside of Mexico.

Experiences with the magic mushrooms apparently had a profound effect on Wasson, and fungi remained a persistent theme in his further works. His next major contribution was a study into the ancient Vedic intoxicant Soma, which he proposed was based on the psychoactive Fly Agaric (Amanita muscaria) mushroom. This was published in 1967 under the title Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality. His attention then turned to the Eleusinian Mysteries, the initiation ceremony of the ancient Greek cult of Demeter and Persephone. In The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978), co-authored with Albert Hofmann and Carl AP Ruck, it was proposed that the special drink "kykeon", a part of the ceremony, contained psychoactive ergoline alkaloids from the fungus Ergot (Claviceps spp.).

"Receiving his mushrooms, Wasson takes his night's ration from the hand of Curandera Eva Mendez. In right background Guy Stresser-Péan, French anthropologist who accompanied Wasson, has begun to chew his own supply."
LIFE Magazine, June 10, 1957   Source (see copyright note at foot of that page)

"Upon retiring in 1963, RGW began Far Eastern field investigations relating to his thesis that the Indian soma plant was the mushroom Amanita muscaria (fly-agaric). He was in the Far East almost continuously from May 1963 to February 1966; his travels included New Zealand, New Guinea, Japan, China, India, Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Nepal. The results of his investigations were published in 1969 in Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, co-authored with Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. This work stirred controversy among Vedic scholars. RGW also co-authored The Road to Eleusis: Unveiling the Secret of the Mysteries (1978) and Persephone's Quest: Entheogens and the Origins of Religion (1986). The term 'entheogen,' was devised by RGW and his colleagues to replace the terms 'hallucinogenic' or 'psychedelic' or 'drug' that had been used during the 1960's."   Source

The Road to Eleusis, Wasson's contributions online

The R Gordon Wasson Archives (Harvard University)    The Chosen Baby, by Valentina Wasson

The Road to Eleusis, by R Gordon Wasson    Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Wasson)

Big Sur Tapes: Mazatec Indians of Mexico     Shop Maria Sabina    Maria Sabina: Her Life and Chants

Seeking the Magic Mushroom, Life Magazine 1957     More

1898 Katherine Alexander (d. 1981), actress

1902 John Houseman (d. 1988), Romanian-born producer, actor and director, co-founder, with Orson Welles, of the Mercury Theatre in New York

1905 Eugen Sänger (d. 1964), Austrian aerospace engineer

1906 Ilse Koch (d. 1967), wife of Karl Koch, commandant of the concentration camp Buchenwald

1912 Martha Scott (d. 2003), American actress

1915 Arthur Lowe (d. 1982), English actor best known as the pompous Captain George Mainwaring in TV's Dad's Army

1918 Henryk Szeryng (d. 1988), violinist

1920 William H. Riker (d. 1993), political scientist

1923 Dannie Abse, poet and writer

1924 Rosamunde Pilcher, novelist

1928 James Lawson, civil rights activist, minister

1931 Fay Weldon, British author brought up in New Zealand (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil)

Breakfast at Bulgari's?

"The Italian jeweler's sponsorship of Fay Weldon's latest novel has the literary world in a tizzy 
BY CHRISTINE WHITEHOUSE

"British author Fay Weldon is no stranger to controversy. Her provocative views on everything from rape (worse things could happen to a woman) to cosmetic surgery (it enhances your sex life) to men (they're the new underclass) have generated plenty of outrage.

"Nothing, though, compared to the brouhaha that erupted last week when it emerged that her latest novel, The Bulgari Connection, which was commissioned and privately printed by the Italian jeweler, will soon enjoy mainstream publication.

"Critics have accused Weldon, a 1979 Booker Prize nominee for Praxis, of compromising her artistic integrity. Bulgari is mentioned frequently throughout what is billed by her publisher, HarperCollins, as a 'high-class thriller,' but Weldon professes to be surprised and amused by the fuss. A former advertising copywriter, she dismisses the high-minded notion that art should be separate from commerce. 'I'm just a jobbing writer, really.'"   Source

1931 George Younger, 4^th Viscount Younger of Leckie (d. 2003), British politician

1943 Toni Basil, singer, dancer, choreographer

1946 King Sunny Ade, reggae singer

1948 Denis Burke, Australian politician

1951 David Coverdale, singer

1952 Bob Goodlatte, US Congressman from Virginia

1952 Paul Le Mat, actor

1954 Shari Belafonte, American entertainer

1956 Debby Boone, American entertainer

1957 Nick Cave, Australian musician, songwriter, poet, author, and actor

1958 Joan Jett, American rock singer

1958 Andrea Bocelli, singer

1961 Scott Baio, actor

1964 Bonnie Hunt, actress

1971 Märtha Louise, Princess of Norway

1975 Mystikal, rap music singer

1988 Bethany Dillon, American musician

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66 Roman Emperor Nero (37 - 68), created the legion I Italica.

1236 Lithuanians and Semigallians beat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in the Battle of Saule.

1253 Death of Dogen (b. 1200), Japanese Zen Buddhist.

1345 Death of Henry Plantagenet, 3^rd Earl of Leicester (b. 1281), English nobleman.

1499 Switzerland became an independent state.

1521 Death of Selim I (b. 1465), Ottoman Sultan.

1554 Death of Francisco Vasquez de Coronado (b. c. 1510), Spanish explorer.

1586 The battle of Zutphen was fought.

1598 English playwright and satirist Ben Jonson was indicted for manslaughter.

1692 The last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.

1735 Number 10 Downing Street, London, became the new residence for British prime ministers, when PM Sir Robert Walpole moved in.

1776 Nathan Hale was hanged for spying during American Revolution.

1774 Death of Pope Clement XIV (b. 1705).

1777 Death of John Bartram (b. 1699), American botanist.

1784 Russia established a colony at Kodiak, Alaska.

1789 The position of United States Postmaster General was established.

1792 The French First Republic was proclaimed. This day onward was called by 19^th-Century scholars the "era of the French Republic". The French Republican Calendar (retrospectively adopted by the National Convention on October 5, 1793), began today, lasting until January 1, 1806 when abolished by Napoleon and the Gregorian calendar was restored.

1827 According to Mormonism founder, Joseph Smith, an angel called Moroni allowed him to take possesssion of golden plates and other artifacts (including a sword, a compass-like device, a breastplate and what Smith referred to as the Urim and Thummim). The golden plates were said to contain engravings in an ancient language – unknown to scholarship before or after Smith – called Reformed Egyptian, and became the source material for the Book of Mormon. When Smith had finished translating the plates, he said that he returned them to Moroni, and therefore they are unavailable for study, which is a misfortune for some.

Since 1833 a Calvinist minister named Solomon Spalding has been credited by some scholars and writers as being the original author of a portion of the Book of Mormon, but this is disputed by the Mormons (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints), who have gone as far as to create the site solomonspalding.com.

Skeptic's view of the influence of the occult and Masonry on Joseph Smith and the LDS Church

1828 Having suffered a decline in mental health following his mother's death (he allegedly ordered the members of his clan to starve themselves to death), Shaka Zulu (born c. 1787), King of the Zulus, was assassinated by his half-brothers (by his father), Dingane and Mhlangana, and Dingane claimed his position.

1852 Death of William Tierney Clark (b. 1783), civil engineer.

1860 Second Opium War: The China's emperor fled Peking as English and French forces advanced.

1862 USA: A preliminary version of the Emancipation Proclamation was released, freeing the slaves.

1869 Richard Wagner's opera Das Rheingold debuted in Munich.

1873 Death of Friedrich Frey-Herosé (b. 1801), member of the Swiss Federal Council.

 

1890 Sydney, Australia: The first edition of the Australian Workman, official organ of the Trades and Labour Council (TLC) in Sydney (a founding organisation of the Australian Labor Party), following the demise of the Australian Radical almost exactly a year earlier.

The first editor was Rev. Dr (Theodore) Oswald Keating, MA, DD, LLD, who had just stepped off a clipper ship from Britain in July and had some writings published in Truth's earliest numbers. The proprietors of the Australian Workman were impressed with him and under the circumstances of the Maritime Strike of 1890, pleased to have a clergyman's name on the masthead. By the end of October, the 'clergyman' was suing the newspaper for 5 pounds for wrongful dismissal.

Dr Keating was in fact Joseph James Crouch, a forger and conman who had impersonated clergy of various denominations for thirty years, been imprisoned a number of times, and robbed and abandoned a widow he had married for money in England. In the USA, in 1881, he had conned many, including the prominent American clergyman, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, who lent him money as well as his pulpit. He could speak fluently in several languages, including Hebrew. He also plied his craft in Canada, and in Dublin, Ireland, he had been known as a brilliant Protestant preacher. In Kilmainham Gaol, he was the 'guest' of the Governor, who had had him for dinner as a guest of honour just a fortnight before.

After having been found out, Crouch, still calling himself Rev. Dr Keating, went back to the owners of Truth, the politicians William Nicholas Willis and Adolphus George Taylor, and demanded monies (the residue of 50 pounds) they had promised him for a novel and some articles they had published. They refused, and the parties disputed for several weeks. One day in November, Crouch went to Taylor's Woollahra home to carry on the battle, but Taylor was not in, so Crouch was invited in by the servant, 12-year-old Mary Ann Brown, whom Crouch seduced on Taylor's drawing-room sofa.  The matter ended up in court with that incorrigible reprobate John Norton giving information but not sworn evidence against Crouch, who defended himself and got five years, but did not live to serve out his sentence. He was found dead the next day in his Darlinghurst Gaol cell, possibly by a poisoned pill brought in at his request by his wife Polly. Taylor and Willis came out badly too, with the judge, Mr Justice William Windeyer roundly criticising them for hushing up the seduction of the girl for a long period of time, which they did because they were hoping Crouch would simply leave town and thus a scandal for them would be avoided.

Australian Workman was first published from strike headquarters at the Australian Coffee Palace, Castlereagh St; it was pretty much controlled by the Australasian Socialist League until 1894. It ended in 1897. The early editions had ads like:

STRIKERS!!! The Place for Good Liquors is the Cardigan, Oxford Street. Support Your Friend.
UNION FOWLS lay more EGGS than any blackleg fowls. Brown Leghorns from Prize Stick, 12/6 settings. Eight guaranteed to hatch.

Source: Pearl, Cyril, Wild Men of Sydney, Universal Books, Melbourne, 1958

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Trades & Labor Council of Sydney (1871 - 1894)    Labour council at Wikipedia

 

1893 The first American-built automobile, built by the Duryea Brothers, was displayed.

1918 The first direct radio message was sent from Britain to Australia.

1949 The Soviet Union announced that it had exploded its first nuclear weapon in August, thus ending America's nuclear domination of geopolitics.

1951 Australians voted against banning the Communist Party of Australia, 2,370,009 to 2,317,927, in the nation's closest-ever referendum.

1960 Mali gained independence from France.

1961 The USA Peace Corps was formed.

1965 The war between India and Pakistan over Kashmir ended after the UN called for a cease-fire.

1970 Tunku Abdul Rahman resigned as Prime Minister of Malaysia.

1972 Idi Amin, dictator of Uganda, gave 80,000 Asian-Ugandans 48 hours to leave the country.

1975 Sara Jane Moore tried to assassinate USA President Gerald Ford. Ford survived the second assassination attempt by a woman in one month when Sara Moore made an attempt on his life in San Francisco.

1979 A nuclear bomb test occurred near Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic, apparently carried out by South Africa.

1980 Iraq invaded Iran.

1980 Polish workers founded the Solidarnosc (Solidarity) trade union.

1985 French prime minister Laurent Fabius admitted that it was French DGSE (secret service) agents who bombed the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour, New Zealand.

Portuguese photographer Fernando Pereira was killed in the blast.

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1985 The Farm Aid concert took place in Champaign, Illinois.

1985 The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.

1986 A two-and-a-half month old baby became the youngest recipient of a heart-lung transplant, at Harefield Hospital, Middlesex, Britain.

1989 An IRA bomb killed 10 bandsmen at the Royal Marines School of Music, Deal, England.

1993 A Transair Georgian Airlines Tu-154 was shot down by a missile in Sukhumi, Georgia.

1997 Bentalha massacre in Algeria; more than 200 villagers killed.

2003 Death of Margie Schoedinger (b. 1965?), American woman who had filed rape charges against President George W Bush. On December 2 the previous year, she had charged Bush with "individual sex crimes" against both herself and her husband. The Harris County, Texas Medical Examiner's Office ruled the death a suicide by self-inflicted gunshot. Schroedinger's petition to the court, and her death, received almost no media coverage inside the USA, but her allegations are widely believed to have been figments of a troubled mind.

2003 David Hempleman-Adams became the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.

2005 The Guardian carried a report by an innocent man in London, going about his normal affairs, who was arrested on the London Tube (underground railway), handcuffed, detained and questioned. His home was raided, his phones and computer equipment confiscated. Why? Because the police had new "anti-terrorism" powers.

2006 In a massive demonstration in Beirut, Hezbollah claimed "Divine Victory" over Israel.

 

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