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.

Generally, each festival charges an entry fee which varies depending upon the area, and either covers entry only or includes a commemorative ⅓, ½ or 1 pint glass sporting the details of the festival.

Gawai Dayak a festival of the Dayaks includes the cockfight and the waving of a rooster over offerings while asking for guidance and blessings with the rooster being sacrificed and the blood included in spiritual offering, while the Tiwah festival involves the sacrifice of many animals including the chicken as offerings to the Supreme God.

The Hanshi festival was eventually moved to coincide with the Qingming Festival or the Pure Brightness Festival which still includes the rooster and cockfight.

The festival includes light sporting activities and musical acts, in addition to the cook-off.

Originally a festival held to break up the long nights of winter and mark the end of Yule, the festival has become one celebrating the isles ' heritage and includes a procession of men dressed as Vikings and the burning of a replica longship.

The town has a large Christmas festival that includes a number of lighted displays in the downtown area.

The festival includes several different events, culminating on the final Sunday in a masked procession including participants from many different countries.

The word masopust translates literally from old Czech to mean " meat fast ", and the festival often includes a pork feast in preparation for Lent.

Ashoka, the South Asian student association, puts on a performance for Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, that includes a skit and dances ; Black Anthology is a student-run performance arts show celebrating black culture ; Lunar New Year Festival is a collaboration between the many East Asian organizations on campus culminating in a show to celebrate the holiday with a skit and dances from Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures ; the Association of Latin American Students showcases various forms of Latin and Spanish dances during their performance, Carnaval.

The three-day festival began in 1986 and includes lectures and readings by visiting authors.

The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.

The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.

The annual Asparagus festival includes a parade and crowning of the Asparagus Queen.

Originating in 1842 as a day for farmers to gather at the county seat to trade their agricultural goods, today Tater Day is a celebration that includes a festival and parade.

The festival includes a sidebar that is unique among major film festivals: a four-film " Secret Festival ".

The site hosts a town festival every year that includes vendors, child activities, music, and a Civil War reenactment.

This festival includes hundreds of vendors, and brings thousands of visitors to the area each year.

In addition to the many community events common to any town, each May Marion hosts the Esperanza Bonanza, a festival that includes live music, a barbecue competition, a rodeo, a golf tournament, a carnival, and games for adults & children.

The Turkey Trot festival also includes a Miss Turkey Trot Pageant, a Miss Drumsticks Competition ( best legs ), dinners, musical entertainment, a 5 kilometer run, a parade ( which has included former Arkansas governor and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee ), and a nationally recognized turkey calling contest sponsored by the National Wild Turkey Federation.

The festival generally includes one or more of the following:

The festival includes free entertainment, bed races, an antique tractor pull, pageant, parade, craft and antique vendors, and carnival.

She glanced at the man nodding beside her, a man with weather cracks furrowed into his lean cheeks, with powdery pale eyes reflecting all the droughts he had seen, reflecting the sky and the drought which must follow now in August -- yes, with eyes predicting the drought and here it was only June, only festival time again and thoughts of Gratt Shafer would not leave her.

In all Romance languages, the name of the Easter festival is derived from the Latin Pascha.

During the festival, artists come from all over the world to erect their sculptures in the open air, in full view of passers by.

Guatemala City offers all the modern amenities along with important historic sites that a world class city can be expected to have ranging from an IMAX Theater to the Ícaro film festival ( Festival Ícaro ) featuring films produced in Guatemala and Central America.

Since 2010, the country has began hosting a street festival to encourage all generations and people from all walks of life to enjoy and encourage Malaysian street culture.

The highlight of this fun fair is the long Parade of the Marksmen with more than 12. 000 participants from all over the world, among them around 5. 000 marksmen, 128 bands and more than 70 wagons, carriages and big festival vehicles.

The rite of her sacred fires is a modern festival held in honour of the Goddess Hekate all around the world at the Full Moon in May each year, with thousands participating in more than 18 languages, including English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German, Serbian, Welsh and Esperanto.

The biblical regulations for the observance of the festival require that all leavening be disposed of before the beginning of the 15th of Nisan An unblemished lamb or goat is to be set apart on Nisan 10, and slaughtered on Nisan 14 at dusk.

In the first centuries, the first day, being made a festival in honor of Christ's resurrection, received attention as a day of religious services and recreation, but seventh-day Sabbath rest was still observed by " almost all churches ".

And after the observance of the Sabbath, let every friend of Christ keep the Lord's Dominicam as a festival, the resurrection-day, the queen and chief of all the days.

" Lutheran church historian Augustus Neander states " The festival of Sunday, like all other festivals, was always only a human ordinance ".

The Modern Irish word Samhain is derived from the Old Irish samain, samuin, or samfuin, all referring to 1 November ( latha na samna: ' samhain day '), and the festival and royal assembly held on that date in medieval Ireland ( oenaig na samna: ' samhain assembly ').

According to the prophet Zechariah, in the messianic era Sukkot will become a universal festival and all nations will make pilgrimages annually to Jerusalem to celebrate the feast there.

In the days of the Temple in Jerusalem, all Jewish men, women, and children on pilgrimage to Jerusalem for the festival would gather in the Temple courtyard on the first day of Chol HaMoed Sukkot to hear the Jewish king read selections from the Torah.

Some 600, 000 people attend the largest rock festival of all time.

The festival draws amateur and professional gourmets to sample delicacies from all around the world, including nations that do not have a permanent presence in World Showcase.

Specifically Tyrnavos holds an annual Phallus festival, a traditional " phallkloric " event in which giant, gaudily painted effigies of phalluses made of papier maché are paraded, and which all women present are asked to touch, or kiss, their reward for doing so being a shot of the famous local tsipouro alcohol spirit.

Although the proposed years varied, all versions agreed that the city was founded on April 21, the day of the festival sacred to Pales, goddess of shepherds ; in her honour, Rome celebrated the Par ilia ( or Palilia ).

* In Hinduism, all festival are according to the Hindu calendar, based on the Vikram Samvat, which also functions as the national calendar of Nepal and Bangladesh.

Given the creation of the Moscow IFF and the political decision to organize only one " A " festival for all socialist countries, Karlovy Vary was forced to alternate with Moscow between 1959 and 1993.

Tokushima Prefecture also has its annual Awa Odori running in August at the time of the Obon festival, which attracts thousands of tourists each year from all over Japan and from abroad.

The Ngondo is a traditional festival of the Duala, although today all of Cameroon's coastal Sawa peoples are invited to participate.

Other popular attractions include the annual Grand Illumination ( see also here ) in Oak Bluffs ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Society which screens independent and world cinema all year long ; the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival which runs its Summer Film Series and Cinema Circus every Wednesday in July and August, the second week in August, The Run & Shoot Filmworks Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival < http :// www. mvaaff. com > which showcases the works of independent and established African-American filmmakers and its winter festival in March ; Martha's Vineyard International Film Festival in September, Katama Farm in Edgartown ; and the Flying Horses Carousel in Oak Bluffs, the oldest carousel in the United States.

The Pharisees washed themselves before Sabbath and festival meals ( in effect, making these holidays " temples in time "), and, eventually, before all meals.