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Sunday 2003 Mar 30 is Julian 2452729 = 19 x 167 x 773 —
5763 adar-II 26 1995 magabit 21 1719 baramhat 21 1424 muharram 26
1925 caitra 09 1382 farvardin 10 211 germinal 10 160 baha 10
China-Republic - 92 - 02 - 28 // 78 - 20 / gui~wei Sheep - 02 - 28
12 baktun / 19 katun / 10 tun / 02 winal / 06 k'in // 12 - kimi // 19 - kumk'u / g1
 
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Explanation of various calendars
This day (NP), is for special
religious observance.
This day was sacred to Liber, and on this day women would line the streets and sell fresh meal-cakes on small altars. Processions were made to chapels in various parts of the city. Effigies were placed in these chapels, later to be cast into the Tiber river during the festivals in May.
The Liberalia is considered to be the first real festival of the new sacral year. A primary theme of these celebrations is freedom (liber).
Freedom to the Romans had four embodiments: Freedom from evil. — Freedom from burdens. — Freedom from care. — Freedom from youthful folly.
This is the seventeenth day of the Festival of Mars. The daily spectacle of the priests of Mars leaping and dancing through the streets of Rome would continue this day. In fact, the multiple processions going on throughout the day would have borne a resemblance to the multiple parades that go on throughout New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
The philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius died this day near Sirmium in CMXXXIII A.V.C. (180 AD). His book of Greek Stoicism called Meditations portrays the remarkable wisdom that the best Romans were capable of even during a time of decay. He had been ill for years and probably had cancer. He could often only endure the pain after taking the drug Theriac, which contained opium. His son Commodus succeeded him as emperor this day.
This was the second day of a nine-day fast for the Romans, leading up to the Day of Blood.
On this day the Bacchanalia, the Festival of Bacchus, continued in Greece.
The Canaanites (Phoenicians or Syrians) celebrated this day as Astarte's day. Astarte was often identified as Demeter or Ceres, and as Isis in Egypt. Astarte was both a moon goddess and a cow goddess because the crescent moon had horns.
On this day in DCCIX A.V.C. (45 BC) Caesar won the final victory over Pompey's troops, defeating his two sons at Munda. The Pax Romana truly began this day.
This day was sacred to Liber, and on this day women would line the streets and sell fresh meal-cakes on small altars. Processions were made to chapels in various parts of the city. Effigies were placed in these chapels, later to be cast into the Tiber river during the festivals in May.
The Liberalia is considered to be the first real festival of the new sacral year. A primary theme of these celebrations is freedom (liber).
Freedom to the Romans had four embodiments: Freedom from evil. — Freedom from burdens. — Freedom from care. — Freedom from youthful folly.
This is the seventeenth day of the Festival of Mars. The daily spectacle of the priests of Mars leaping and dancing through the streets of Rome would continue this day. In fact, the multiple processions going on throughout the day would have borne a resemblance to the multiple parades that go on throughout New Orleans during Mardi Gras.
The philosopher emperor Marcus Aurelius died this day near Sirmium in CMXXXIII A.V.C. (180 AD). His book of Greek Stoicism called Meditations portrays the remarkable wisdom that the best Romans were capable of even during a time of decay. He had been ill for years and probably had cancer. He could often only endure the pain after taking the drug Theriac, which contained opium. His son Commodus succeeded him as emperor this day.
This was the second day of a nine-day fast for the Romans, leading up to the Day of Blood.
On this day the Bacchanalia, the Festival of Bacchus, continued in Greece.
The Canaanites (Phoenicians or Syrians) celebrated this day as Astarte's day. Astarte was often identified as Demeter or Ceres, and as Isis in Egypt. Astarte was both a moon goddess and a cow goddess because the crescent moon had horns.
On this day in DCCIX A.V.C. (45 BC) Caesar won the final victory over Pompey's troops, defeating his two sons at Munda. The Pax Romana truly began this day.