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Lado! Vid
slept in a meadow Lado is beautiful! Lado! fair elf-maids were waking him Lado is beautiful! Lado! Stand up young Vid! Lado is beautiful! Lado! your house is on sale; Lado is beautiful! Lado! your mother is dying; Lado is beautiful! Lado! your lover serves an other. Lado is beautiful! Lado! Then answers young Vid Lado is beautiful! Lado! you are lying fair elf-maids; Lado is beautiful! Lado! neither is my mother dying; Lado is beautiful! Lado! neither is my house on sale; Lado is beautiful! Lado! but my lover serves an other. Lado is beautiful! This song, devoted to Lado, was sung by Serb girls around the Drava river. In springtime they would gather in front of churches and sing it standing in circles as late as 1885 (this is not to say that actual belief in Lado remained). Collected by Nikola Begovic. Source Wikipedia |
International Literacy
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No one will tell me the cause of my sorrow
Why they have made me a prisoner here.
Wherefore with dolour I now make my moan;
Friends had I many but help have I none.
Shameful it is that they leave me to ransom,
To languish here two winters long.
Richard the Lionheart, born on September 8, 1157; composed while in a German prison
For one that is or will be drunken. Take swallows and burn them, and make a powder of them; and give the man to drink thereof, and he shall never be drunk hereafter.
Edward Potter, Phisicke Book, 1610 (the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary in England was a time to drink healths)
What, never seen Nieuw Amsterdam?
That grieves me to the core:
You should have visited the place
In sixteen-sixty-four,
A tidy, little, red-roofed town
With tulip-pots aglow,
And ruled by Peter Stuyvesant
With his famous timber toe.
Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, Peter Stuyvesant. New Amsterdam was seized by the English on September 8, 1664
Nature made him, then broke the mould.
Lodovico Ariosto, Italian Renaissance poet, born on September 8, 1474;
Orlando Furioso
I am making this statement as a wilful defiance of military authority because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.
Siegfried Sassoon, British poet and writer, born on September 8, 1886,
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Let no one ever, from henceforth say one word in any way countenancing war.
It is dangerous even to speak of how here and there the individual may gain
some hardship of soul by it. For war is hell, and those who institute it
are criminals. Were there even anything to say for it, it should not be said;
for its spiritual disasters far outweigh any of its advantages.
Siegfried Sassoon, quoted by his friend, Robert Nichols
If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
Peter Sellers, British comic actor, born on September 8, 1925
There used to be a me behind the mask, but I had it surgically removed.
Peter Sellers
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.
Peter Sellers
September
8 is
the 251st
day of the year in the Gregorian
Calendar (252nd
in leap years), with 114
days remaining.
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This special day was established by the United Nations to
encourage universal literacy with assistance and materials.
First
observed on September 8, 1967, the aim of International
Literacy Day is to focus attention on the need to promote worldwide
literacy.
It is estimated that 875
million of the world's adults do not know how to read or write, and that
more than 110 million children lack access to education.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is the founder of International Literacy Day, and is responsible for appointing a jury to award international literacy prizes.
In its resolution A/RES/56/116, the General Assembly proclaimed the ten
year period beginning 1 January 2003 the United
Nations Literacy Decade.
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Reading Association
The Feast of Honour for Lada and Lela
"This day Lada and Lela are honored because of the work in the fields has come to a close. A celebration is held with dancing and song. This marks the passing of Summer and its attendant warmth."
Source: Irminsul Ættir Archives – Slavic Pagan Kalendar
In speculatively reconstructed Slavic religion, Lada is the goddess of harmony, merriment, youth, love and beauty. Her time is in the year of May; and is known as the Lady of the Flowers. Sacred to her is the linden and purple loosestrife. She is also the Goddess of order and manifested beauty. She is represented as a girl with a flower wreath on her head, dressed in white carrying flowers. She and her brother Lado are credited with creating the fertility of the greening world as they join May festivals in spirit with the people. They dance in each other's embrace, and each place their feet touch springs forth new flowers in full bloom. They are also lovers.
Lado is the god of marriage, mirth, pleasure and general happiness. The divine husband of Lada whom together they represent marriage, pleasures and happiness. He seems synonymous with the Spring fertility god Jarilo as Lada is with Jarila. Those soon to be married make sacrifices to him to ensure a satisfactory union.
"Lada
is the goddess of spring, love and beauty. She lives in the
Otherworld, called Vyri, until the spring equinox, when she emerges,
bringing Spring with her. In one myth, she is married to Dazhbog.
Other stories have Lado, a solar god of joy, as her partner
and Lel, the god of marriage, as her son."
Source: Moist
Mother Earth
Lada,
Slavic Maiden of Spring
Deities of many cultures in the Book of Days See also Strinennia in the Book of Days
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