Festival

A  is an extraordinary event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures.

Quotes

 * I despise your religious festivals;
 * your assemblies are a stench to me.
 * Even though you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings,
 * I will not accept them.
 * Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
 * I will have no regard for them.
 * Away with the noise of your songs!
 * I will not listen to the music of your harps.
 * But let justice roll on like a river,
 * righteousness like a never-failing stream!
 * Amos 5:21-24 NIV


 * The were primarily an agricultural people. After men cleared the fields surrounding the village, women would cultivate . Wild nuts and berries gathered by the women, along with fish and game brought home by the men, rounded out Iroquois meals. Various yearly celebrations such as the, were linked to the production of crops.
 * Richard Aquila,


 * “The multitude of your sacrifices—
 * what are they to me?” says the Lord.
 * “I have more than enough of burnt offerings,
 * of rams and the fat of fattened animals; ...
 * Your incense is detestable to me. ...
 * I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
 * Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals
 * I hate with all my being. ...
 * Your hands are full of blood! ...
 * Stop doing wrong.
 * Learn to do right; seek justice.
 * Defend the oppressed."
 * Isaiah 1:11-17 NIV


 * After the persecution of the Emperor, Gregory Bishop of in Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs).
 * Isaac Newton, in Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the apocalypse of ..., Volume 1, p. 204