Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

The Thai zodiac includes a Naga in place of the Dragon and begins, not at Chinese New Year, but at either on the first day of fifth month in Thai lunar calendar, or during the Songkran festival ( now celebrated every 13 – 15 April ), depending on the purpose of the use.

The perseverance of the Pilgrims is celebrated during the annual Thanksgiving festival.

Beltane was an ancient Gaelic festival celebrated in Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man.

According to Nora Chadwick, in Celtic Ireland " Beltine ( or Beltaine ) was celebrated on 1 May, a spring-time festival of optimism.

" Now Judas celebrated the festival of the restoration of the sacrifices of the temple for eight days, and omitted no sort of pleasures thereon ; but he feasted them upon very rich and splendid sacrifices ; and he honored God, and delighted them by hymns and psalms.

In Spain and Latin American countries the festival is celebrated with pranks ( inocentadas ), similar to April Fools ' Day.

On June 11, the Matralia was celebrated at that temple in honor of Mater Matuta ; this festival was only for women during their first marriage.

The Day of German Unity is celebrated each year with a ceremonial act and a citizens ' festival ().

In Euboea the festival of the Great Daedala, sacred to Hera, was celebrated on a sixty-year cycle.

The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

This provoked the 174 – 135 BCE Maccabean Revolt led by Judas Maccabeus ( whose victory is celebrated in the Jewish festival of Hanukkah ).

The ancient Greeks celebrated the festival of the Heracleia, which commemorated the death of Heracles, on the second day of the month of Metageitnion ( which would fall in late July or early August ).

In Buddhism, honey plays an important role in the festival of Madhu Purnima, celebrated in India and Bangladesh.

Evidence of how Imbolc was celebrated in Gaelic Ireland is found in medieval Irish texts that mention the festival, besides folklore collected during the 19th and early 20th century in rural Ireland and the Scottish Highlands.

" The festival was celebrated near the cave of Lupercal on the Palatine Hill ( the central hill where Rome was traditionally founded ), to expiate and purify new life in the Spring.

Throughout the country, two minutes of silence are observed at 8 p. m. On May 5th, the liberation is celebrated and festivals are held at most places in the Netherlands, with a parade of veterans and day-long musical festival in Wageningen, the latter with an estimated attendance of 100, 000.

In the neighbourhood of Larissa was celebrated a festival which recalled the Roman Saturnalia, and at which the slaves were waited on by their masters.

The Romans celebrated her festival from March 19 to March 23 during the day which is called, in the neuter plural, Quinquatria, the fifth after the Ides of March, the nineteenth, an artisans ' holiday.

It is the first time a non-Christian religious festival is officially celebrated in Spain since the Reconquista.

Culturama, the annual cultural festival of Nevis, is celebrated during the Emancipation Day weekend, the first week of August.

* Sindhi festival of Cheti Chand is celebrated on the same day as Ugadi / Gudi Padwa to mark the celebration of the Sindhi New Year.

* Sinhalese New Year is celebrated with the harvest festival ( in the month of Bak ) when the sun moves from the Meena Rashiya ( House of Pisces ) to the Mesha Rashiya ( House of Aries ).

* The Marwari New Year is celebrated on the day of the festival of Diwali, which is the last day Krishna Paksha of Ashvin month & also last day of the Ashvin month of Hindu calendar.

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

Student Prince Lounge on Atlantic Blvd. plotting a month-long `` festival '' throughout October, with special features.

To help him on this religious aspect of primitive jazz he had `` Big '' Miller, as a preacher-singer and Hannah Dean, Gospel-singer, while Oscar Brown Jr., an extremely talented young man, did a slave auctioneer's call, a field-hands' work song, and a beautifully sung Negro lullaby, `` Brown Baby '', which was one of the truly moving moments of the festival.

, a medieval festival commemorating local history has been held in the village once in every year since 2004, on a July weekend in the summer.

Hay is normally brought in twice a year, often also on festival days.

At this festival a couch was set up, on which the panoply of the hero was placed, a practice which recalls the Roman Lectisternium.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

During the festival, a procession ( believed to be depicted on the Parthenon frieze ) traveled through the city via the Panathenaic Way and culminated on the Acropolis.

He twice ran away from home without permission to hear his elder brother play violin concertos in neighboring churches on festival days ( resulting in the loss of his beloved sugar ), and he also recounted being chastised by his father after failing to greet a local priest with proper respect.

The Donkey brae run is held on the first Sunday of the festival and is popular nationwide, with a 7-mile race, 2-mile run and a 1-mile run for children.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

The Japanese festival, in which Altair is known as, is based on this legend.

Beltane () is the anglicised spelling of the Goidelic name for either the month of May or the festival held on the first day of May.

Like the festival of Samhain, opposite Beltane on 31 October, Beltane was also a time when the Otherworld was seen as particularly close at hand.

Another common aspect of the festival in early 20th century Ireland was the hanging of May Boughs on the doors and windows of houses and the making of May Bushes in farmyards, which usually consisted either of a branch of rowan / caorthann ( mountain ash ) or more commonly whitethorn / sceach geal ( hawthorn ) which is in bloom at the time and is commonly called the ' May Bush ' or just ' May ' in both Ireland and Britain.

Although the holiday may use features of the Gaelic Beltane, such as the bonfire, it is more alike the Germanic May Day festival, both in its significance ( focusing on fertility ) and its rituals ( such as maypole dancing ).

However, this depends on when exactly the Spartans held their festival and it is possible that the Spartan calendar was one month ahead of that of Athens.

The Feriale Duranum, probably identical to the festival calendars of every regular army unit, assigns him a sacrifice of a steer on his birthday, the Kalends of August.

A youth sports festival was held on Sharpham Road Playing Fields in 2009.

Couplets displayed as part of the Chinese New Year festival, on the first morning of the New Year, are called chunlian.

The festival is observed by the kindling of the lights of a unique candelabrum, the nine-branched Menorah or Hanukiah, one additional light on each night of the holiday, progressing to eight on the final night.