{"id":3518,"date":"2013-04-01T00:33:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-01T00:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?page_id=3518"},"modified":"2013-04-22T01:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T01:18:20","slug":"from-the-goddess-book-of-days","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/from-the-goddess-book-of-days\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Goddess Book of Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 align=\"center\"><b>A Perpetual Calendar<\/b><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/from-the-goddess-book-of-days\/2013-04-10-daffodils-3-500\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3662\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3662\" alt=\"2013-04-10-Daffodils-3-500\" src=\"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-10-Daffodils-3-500.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-10-Daffodils-3-500.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/2013-04-10-Daffodils-3-500-150x300.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 85vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>March 22<br \/>\nSpring Equinox, a Wiccan Sabbat, is also called Easter or Oestre; the day is dedicated to Ostara, Eostre, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Esther, Astarte, and Persephone. (It honors the return of Persephone to Demeter\u2014\u2014her mother\u2014\u2014and the return of the god to the goddess.)<\/p>\n<p>March 24<br \/>\nPurim (in the Hebrew calendar) is the Fast and Feast of Esther who saved the Jews of Persia; she is also Eostre, Ostara, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Venus, etc.<\/p>\n<p>March 30<br \/>\nEaster (the first Sunday after the first full moon of spring equinox) is also the Festival of Ostara, Eostree, or Esther; in Mesopotamia it was the Akitu Festival to celebrate creation and the sacred marriage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 570px;\"><i>Contributed by Sena Havasy<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Perpetual Calendar &nbsp; &nbsp; March 22 Spring Equinox, a Wiccan Sabbat, is also called Easter or Oestre; the day is dedicated to Ostara, Eostre, Aphrodite, Ishtar, Esther, Astarte, and Persephone. (It honors the return of Persephone to Demeter\u2014\u2014her mother\u2014\u2014and the return of the god to the goddess.) March 24 Purim (in the Hebrew calendar) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/from-the-goddess-book-of-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Goddess Book of Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3665,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3518\/revisions\/3665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}