November 20 -
Greece: Festival of Praetextatus and Paulina
Egypt: Festival of Sekhmet
Aztec: Start of Panquetzaliztli (The Raising of Banners)
Cambodia: Bonn Om Touk
Praetextaus and Paulina are keeps of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the greatest and most sacred of all mysteries. Initiation, celebration and ceremonies.
Sekhmet sustains the spirit of the deceased by bringing them sustenance. She is a symbol of protection and punishes wrong doers.
Panquetzaliztli was a major festival in honor of the god Huitzilopochtli. Banners would be raised and parades would occur. Captives would dance and sing for the captors who had caught them and who had fasted for five days before this day. The dancing captives would be sacrificed to the god during this festival.
Bonn Om Touk, or the water festival, is a wildly celebrated event celebrating the turning of the current of the Tonle Sap River.
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