WORLD FESTIVAL

December 25 is the day of the celebration and of the recreation and of plays about. While the long awaited holidays of winter arrive, the spirit of Christmas accumulates. The beautiful snowflakes, our dear Santa, the complete houses decorated with the whole range with Christmas hold the first role, GUI, the factory of good-chance, ivy, bay-trees and not least the admirably decorated and luminous Christmas tree are certain parts inseparable from the image. The soft music of Christmas sings and the children eager to open their gifts lend certainly single heat to the coldest day of the year. The birth of Christ is perhaps the most popular festival around the world. The dark sky of night, every fresh winter just provides the perfect context to reign the red and green colors which encourage to the top of the whole landscape. Populate the visit their families and arrange some of the most sumptuous parts. The festival more awaited, Christmas means the love and kindness, the joy and happiness. The spirit of holidays of the season in a word is - infectious!

‘ Nav ‘ means that ‘ nine ‘ and ‘ ratri ‘ means the ‘ night ‘, thus, ‘ Navratri ‘ of the means ‘ nine nights. There are many legends attached to the design of Navratri as all the Indian festivals but all are dependent on the Shakti goddess (Hindu goddess of mother) and on her various forms. Although it is one of the most celebrated festivals Hindu calendar, it holds the special significance for Gujratis and the Bengali and one can see it in the heat and the enthusiasm of the people with whom they are delivered to the activities of festival of the season. The first three days of Navratri are devoted to the goddess Durga (goddess of warrior) equipped in the red and assembled on a lion, after three with the goddess Lakshmi (goddess of the richness and prosperity) equipped out of gold and assembled on an owl and in conclusion, for the last time three with the goddess Saraswati (goddess of knowledge) equipped in white milky and assembled on a pure white swan. Dandiya and Garba Rass are the climaxes of the festival in Goudjerate while the sow of farmer sows and thank the goddess for her blessings and request for a better output. During the old time, this festival was associated the fertility Earth which feed us as his/her children. Sugar refineries are prepared for the celebrations and the children and the dress of adults upwards in new dresses luminous-coloured for the executions of night. With marketing, the festival passed to be a social festival rather than a religious or agrarian festival. In some communities people undergo rigorous fast during this season which lasts nine during the days of the festival, to only be open the tenth day of Dussehra. However, nothing deadens the spirit of the feelers excessively pious people of the goddess of mother while they sing songs of devotion and are delivered to the joys of the season. This year celebrate Navratra of September 29, 2008.

After one period to be delighted above the birth Christ, her feelers observe one moment of punishment and the fast. This period, which starts on ash Wednesday and the ends good Friday, known like is lent. Forms of fast and others of renunciation or art of the car-portrait-sacrifice are recommended as so many manners of after the example of Jesus, who fasted during forty days in the desert, before it began his preaching. Jesus taught the need for the prayer and the fast to surmount the bad one. The practice of the austerities was always considered important in the Christian spirituality. A wood board, representing the cross on which Christ was crucifié is shown in the churches for the veneration of believing. One, they come to embrace it. This is followed of a service of the hour of midday to3, in which accounts of the four evangiles are given reading. The sermons, the meditation and the prayers form part of the ceremony, in the memory of the pain supported by Jesus Christ during three hours. This is followed of a general service of communion at midnight. In some churches, people in mourning carrying the black, the movement in a procession with an image of Christ, and a ceremonious burial takes place. One day of prayer and punishment, the bells of the churches remain quiet good Friday. The cross and will of the father:

The treat of Bakr-Id is an occasion to give and sacrifice. It is one day to thank thepowerful one for its good fortune and to divide it with the less lucky brothers. Id-UL-Zuha, or Id-UL-Azha, while it is called in Arabic, translates like ‘ treat of sacrifice ‘. Popularly, Bakr-Id is marked by the demolition of the animals as sacrificial offers, after which the meat is distributed among the poor one and is deprived. However, the concept of the sacrifice better is included/understood by an incident of the old will, which is nothing but by an explanation concept of Bakr-Id.

The spirit of Pongal, the festival of harvest of Nadu Tamil, gives mercies to God of a beneficial harvest while people prepare a special dish called ‘ Sarkkarai Pongal ‘ and request for the blessings of God of the sun. One of the most popular festival of Tamilian, it is celebrated on 14 January each year coinciding with Makar Sankranti in north, Lohri in Pendjab, Bhogali Bihu in Assam and Bhogi of will andhra pradesh. Very of few festivals of Dravidian which survived the Indo-Aryan influences, Pongal finds little reference in Puranas. Falling just aprés the winter solstice and a beneficial harvest, Pongal marks the season of the celebration and the merry activities. Mainly a three days festival, the fourth day just aprés the festival is devoted outside and to the excursions. Pongal also mark the beginning of a new year and is the day to congratulate and thank God with full the devotion and faith and sincerity with the heart. Of old defects and after should be abandoned for always this day while we are ready to begin the life again. The festival covers all the alive beings including/understanding of human, the cattle and the birds and harvests. Even stripped insects given on and are offered the flour of rice to the food above in the form of ‘ Kollam ‘ on the entranceway of the houses. Thus, Pongal is one day for peace and happiness for all.

According to the lunar calendar, the sun moves tropic of Cancer in, or the Dakshinayana tropic of Capricorn with Uttarayana, month of Poush in mid-January. This end of the winter solstice also coincides with the season of harvest and the suspension of the monsoon of the North-East in India Of the south. The earthmoving of a sign of zodiac in others is called Sankranti, and is celebrated like Makar, or Uttarayana, Sankranti, or Lohri, in north, and like Pongal in the South. The word pongal, in the telugu and Tamoul, means the surplus of boiling of rice in the pot to be cooked. However little is known about the origin of Pongal, it is probably a festival of harvest of Dravidian which survived for ends of season of millennia.The Sankranti with Ratha Saptami, the seventh day of the luminous half of Magha, when the gold sun and its tank are honoured. Pongal is a three days festival. The first day, Bhogi Pongal, celebrations are confined at the house. Bad spirits are led out of the house and are burned in fires, and the house is bleached. The second day, Surya Pongal, honors the god of the sun. The members of the family wear new clothing and cook - on a new furnace and in new pots - a dish with rice, jagré and the moong lately harvested dal. The stems of cane with sugar characterize this festival, just as until, and candies made starting from jagré and of groundnuts. The third day is Maattu Pongal, honouring with the cattle. Cows and the ox are washed, decorated, and adored for their role by ensuring a good harvest. Pendjab celebrates Lohri by the feasting of candies made in jagré, groundnuts and seeds of sesame, and manufacture of a fire symbolic system of the winter therefore. In days bringing to Lohri, the children visit houses of the neighbors, sing traditional songs of Lohri, and ask coins and for candies in the return. While being Indian in the spirit, this habit is similar to the tradition of the anthems of praise of Christmas of song. In Goudjerate and other Western states, people observe Uttarayana, when the winds change, while flying of the kites. The sky of winter bursts in the color with thousands of paper kites. The festivities conclude with a treat from winter. In will maharashtra, populate the dress in new clothing and distribute candies to sesame. New bride is accomodated in the family with sugar ornaments and a ceremony of turmeric-and-vermilion. In will maharashtra rural, the treats of the new harvest mark the festival. Assam celebrates the harvest of paddy in winter with Magha or Bhogali Bihu. The houses with the covered thatch roofs go up in the villages and there is regaled the night. The houses are placed on fire the morning. The festivities continue during one week. At Ganga Sagar, where Ganga enters the sea, a large fair east held. The festival is also called until sankranti or in Kichri Sankranti, after its principal ingredient or preparation. Thanjavur, in Madurai, and Thiruchirapalli, in Tamil Nadu, Pongal is marked by jallikattu, or the bull fights. A money bag is attached to the horns of a bull, and the man who succeeds in attaching the animal to the tree obtains the money and a price.

India is a country of the festivals. It is culturelement so rich that it celebrates a festival almost each month. People of India east if animated that they find a reason or the other for celebrations. One such reasons is the soft relationship and sourness between a brother and a sister. Although the brothers and the sisters share and appreciate the obligation of the love between them throughout the year but Rakhi is the day when they obtain an occasion to express their tender love and feelings towards one the other. The day of Rakhi is an occasion so that they commemorate their affectionate memories, fidelities, proximity, confidence and friendship which is durable and true. Raksha Bandhan is celebrated each year on ‘ Shravan Purnima ‘ (day of full moon of the Hindu month of Shravan), which generally falls in August. The holy day of Rakhi the sisters attach a piece crowned of wire (known under the name of Rakhi or ‘ Raksha-Sutra ‘) on the wrist of their brothers. Then they soften each others of the mouths with candies delicious and stop-sprinkling. The festival of Rakhi also includes a tradition of the gifts of offer to the sisters by the brothers.

It takes place the fifth day of the luminous half of Shravan that the naga Panchami, or the festival of the snakes, is celebrated. The sun of adjustment is thousand-long processions of witness of the carriages merry-decorated with ox, making roll merrily to the temple close to Shiva. The excitation and the horse-gear of a fair succeed, lasting well in the night. The snakes which the men had captured of the deep forests the week before can now turn over behind to where they came. The worship of snake no doubt owes its origin with the normal fear of the man of these reptiles. Hindu books are filled with stories and fables about the snakes, and images and images of them gathering you with each turn. The admirers seek holes where snakes are likely to be found. When they found a hole, they make periodic visits, placing before him milk, bananas, and any other food which the snake is likely to like. Because its moulting cyclic, the snake is thought of being immortal by the Hindus, and eternity is thus illustrated in the form of snake eating its tail. Temples were also set up in the honor of the snakes. It there has particularly famous with Mysore, with place called Subramania, which is also the name of the large snake (it is on this snake that Vishnu lord rests while sleeping at sea), so much often mentioned in Hindu fables. The culture of naga was rather widespread in India before the Aryan, and continuous invasion with being an important segment of worship in certain sectors. After the invasion, the Indo-Aryan ones incorporated the worship of the snakes in the hindouism, just as obvious in worship and mythology to reign. Thousand-directed Ananta is the couch of Vishnu and also supports the ground, whereas the snakes play a decorative part in the case of Shiva. The worship of snake is more common in peninsular India than in north. This day, the tilling of a field is prohibited. The legend A which this day, while plowing its ground, a farmer killed some young snakes accidentally. The mother of these snakes took revenge into corrosive and killing the farmer and her family, except a girl, who precisely proved to request in Nagas. This act of devotion had like consequence the rebirth of the farmer and the remainder of his family. This day, the women draw figures of the snakes on the walls of their houses by using a mixture of powder, of dung of cow and milk blacks. Then offers of milk, ghee, water and rice are made. It it is believed that in the reward for this worship, the snakes will never bite any member of the family. In will maharashtra, the snake charmers go from the house to the house carrying the cobras door frames in baskets of cane, asking alms and vêtant. This festival announces the arrival of Ganesha, almost exactly a month later. In Kerala, temples of snake are tight this day and the worship is offered to the icons of stone or out of metal of the cosmic snake Ananta or Sesha. The furnace bridges in much of houses of Kerala have a cobra of money or of out of copper which is adored and milk and the candies offered as the families request for the wellbeing of their children and prosperity. In Pendjab, the festival is celebrated in September-October and is called Guga Naumi. A made snake of paste is taken around the village in a basket, and a proposal of the flour and butter are made starting from each house. The ‘ snake ‘ is then buried. With Bengal and the parts Western of Assam and Orissa, the deity of snake adored on the naga Panchami is the Manasa goddess.

Ramanavami is celebrated as the birth of Rama or Ramachandra. The ninth day of first about fifteen Chaitra the birth of Rama is commemorated. The history of Rama was first written by Vaalmeeki approximately at 4th century B.C. Rama is supposed to have lived during 8th or 7th of B.C. The of century known under the name of Ramayana. In some areas of India, it is a nine days festival, coinciding with Vasanta Navaratri (see also Navaratri). The public worship starts with ablutions of morning, singing incantations of Vedic devoted to Vishnu, and offering the flowers and the fruit to the god. Populate the subsistence a rapid throughout the day, breaking it only at midnight with the fruit. In some parts of India, particularly of Bihar and uttar pradesh, public gatherings called the satsangs are organized to commemorate the birth of Rama. Extracts of Ramacharitamanas, exciting the glory of Rama, are exposed. People of all the castes and faith take part in these gatherings to listen to the stories and their explanations offered by educated.

The lotissor of Nanak of guru, the founder of the faith sikhe, was born in month from Kartik (October/November), and its birthday is known like guru Nanak Jayanti. He was born in 1469 A.D. at Tolevandi approximately 30 miles from Lahore. The birthdays of the guru sikh are known like Gurpurabs (festivals) and are celebrated with the devotion and the attachment. The mark of GurPurabs the climax of Prabhat Pheris, the procession early of morning which starts from will gurdwaras (temples sikhs) and then circulate of the localities singing the ‘ shabads (anthems). The celebrations also include the three day old way of Akhand, during which the holy book, the guru Granth Sahib is read without interruption, of the beginning until the end without cut. The day of the festival, Granth Sahib is also carried inside a procession on a float, is decorated with the flowers, in a whole village or a city. Five armed guards, which represent Panj Pyares, direct the bearing procession Nishan Sahibs (the flag sikh). The local bands playing the sacred music form special part of the procession. Free candies and the lunches langar or community are also offered to each one independently of the religious faith. Men, women, and the children, take part in this karseva like service at the community, food of cook and distribute it in ‘ ka Langar of guru ‘, with the ‘ traditional Karah Prasad ‘. Sikhs also visit will gurdwaras where special programs are arranged and of the kirtans (religious songs) are sung. Rooms and will gurdwaras them are lit until are added to the festivities. The life of the realizer of Nanak of guru was used as light of beacon with its age. It was large a scombre, saint and mystic. It was a prolific poèt and a single singer of the laudation of God. A prophet of peace, love, truth and Rebirth, it was centuries in front of his periods. Its universal message is as fresh and true today equal as it was in the past and Sikhs everywhere in the world, the practice which guru the lotissor of Nanak preached, to reaffirm their belief in the lesson of their founder.