{"id":173,"date":"2014-09-28T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/?p=173"},"modified":"2014-09-28T23:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T23:01:38","slug":"septemberholidays-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/septemberholidays-3\/","title":{"rendered":"End of September Holidays Holy Days for Alternative Christianity &#038; its Pagan Influences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b>Sep 26 thru Oct 5<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Navaratri, Hindu Festival of the Great Goddess<br \/>\n<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><small>Huge holiday in India when Goddess destroys evil and restores cosmic order. Coincides with the end of the deadly rainy aka flood season, so you can see how this holiday made sense over\u00a0the centuries &#8212; especially this year! The 2014 flood season in India and Pakistan was much worse and more deadly than normal.<\/small><br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/AsherahMesopotamianTreeOfLife.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/AsherahMesopotamianTreeOfLife-300x195.gif\" alt=\"Asherah the Mother God and Tree of Life in Mesopotamia and the Levant\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Asherah was called the Tree of Life in ancient Mesopotamia, the tree symbol in the center is a flowering Asherah &#8220;Pole&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b>Sep 27<\/b>, Day of the Willows,<br \/>\nThe Day of the Willow Trees, that beautiful feminine tree. Mesopotamian Festival of Astarte and \/ or Asherah.\u00a0 Mesopotamia which is Iraq and Syria, surely could use their ancient Mother-God now. They have forgotten Her completely, and thus the rampant oppression, enslavement and murderous abuse of females is still taking place. They treat males they disagree with\u00a0also murderously &#8212; another sign of having no Heavenly Mother. I heard that ISIL is so afraid of women that they run from them on the battlefield believing if killed by a woman, they will not go to heaven.\u00a0 Mother God and the Daughters-of-God are in great need in Mesopotamia.<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b>Sep 29<\/b>,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernway.org\/school\/way\/calendar\/index.html#michaelmas\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Michaelmas<\/span><\/span><\/a>, one of the oldest Christo-pagan holy days<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b>Sep 30<\/b>, Feast day of Saint Sophia, mother of Faith, Hope &amp; Charity, saintly version of Goddess of Wisdom. Alternative feastdays for her are August 15 or 17, see previous Calendar entries in\u00a0our Holy Days section.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">OCT<\/span><\/b><b>OBER<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b>Oct 2<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; Druid Feast of the Guardian Spirits<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><b>Oct 4<\/b><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; St. Francis of Assisi Day, one of the most &#8220;pagan&#8221; and &#8220;alternative&#8221; of the Christian saints, he coined terms, &#8220;brother sun, sister moon&#8221;, and honored the covenant between humans and the animal kingdom. His mother was said to be a Cathar heretic who secretly practiced Catharism and may have taught it to him.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 26 thru Oct 5\u00a0Navaratri, Hindu Festival of the Great Goddess \u00a0Huge holiday in India when Goddess destroys evil and restores cosmic order. Coincides with the end of the deadly rainy aka flood season, so you can see how this holiday made sense over\u00a0the centuries &#8212; especially this year! The 2014 flood season in India &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/septemberholidays-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">End of September Holidays Holy Days for Alternative Christianity &#038; its Pagan Influences<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,54,17,53],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holydays","tag-asherah","tag-christo-pagan","tag-goddess","tag-michaelmas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lOlB-2N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernway.org\/mysteryschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}