History of festivals

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What are the oldest festival celebrated in the world today?

I read somewhere that the festivals which related to cultivation of land were the oldest festivals humans started to celebrate. So festivals Holi might be the oldest festivals in the world.

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Holi? Then Diwali too, no? :hmmm:

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Divali is celebrated for return of Bhagwan Rama from Lanka and its an old incident too, but I think Holi is more oldest

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Thanksgiving :hmmm:

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How old it is. I think that might be not old beyond 15th Century AD? :hmmm:

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This is what I found.

In the English tradition, days of thanksgiving and special thanksgiving religious services became important during the English Reformation in the reign of Henry VIII and in reaction to the large number of religious holidays on the Catholic calendar. Before 1536 there were 95 Church holidays, plus 52 Sundays, when people were required to attend church and forego work and sometimes pay for expensive celebrations. The 1536 reforms reduced the number of Church holidays to 27, but some Puritans, the radical reformers of their age, wished to completely eliminate all Church holidays, including Christmas and Easter. The holidays were to be replaced by specially called Days of Fasting or Days of Thanksgiving, in response to events that the Puritans viewed as acts of special providence. Unexpected disasters or threats of judgement from on high called for Days of Fasting. Special blessings, viewed as coming from God, called for Days of Thanksgiving. For example, Days of Fasting were called on account of drought in 1611, floods in 1613, and plagues in 1604 and 1622. Days of Thanksgiving were called following the victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588 and following the deliverance of Queen Anne in 1705. An unusual annual Day of Thanksgiving began in 1606 following the failure of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605 and developed into Guy Fawkes Day.

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So its comparatively new festival

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Nevruz the World's oldest festival which is celebrated by festivities under various names in many communities, is being celebrated in the Turkish World as ''the exit of Turks from Ergenekon'' and ''the beginning of the new year in Turkish calendar with 12 animals'' since 5000 years.

Some accept this day as the day God created Earth, some as the day Prophet Noah stepped on Earth after the Flood. Some accepts it as the day first human-being is created, and some as the messenger of Spring.

Nevruz which means ''New Day' in Persian, is called ''Noruz'', ''Navrýz'', ''Ergenekon'', ''Bozkurt'', ''Çaðan (Chaghan)'', ''Mart Dokuzu (Nine of March)'', ''Ulusun Ulu Günü (Holy Day of the Nation)'', ''Ýlk Yaz Yortusu (First Summer Easter)'', ''Yengi Gün (New Day)'', ''Köklü Marta (Rooted March)'', ''Sultan Nevruz'', ''Mart Bozumu (End of March)'' in various Turkish communities on Earth.

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So Nouroz is a Turkish festival?

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Yes :hmmm:

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I don't think that it is turkish. It is Zoroastrian in origin and it is suggested to have been started by Zoroaster himself.

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Holi is a spring festival. I think harvest festivals like Makar Sankranti which is celebrated all over India by different names in different regions predated Holi. I think Kumbh mela is also one of the oldest religious gathering in the subcontinent.

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I think among abrahamic religions, passover might be the oldest festival .

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passover?

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eid :)

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:emmy: Eid is just a 1400 years old phenomenon. Though the festival was celebrated in way or other by people of Arab before Islam

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but it was celebrated of course not like today but still it was there

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ok taken that point.. but Jews festivals might be older than followed by Arabs (before and after Islam)

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A jewish festival that dates back to the time of Moses and the exodus from Egypt

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I was also thinking of the same, but was confused as you said in Abrahamic religions. I don't know about Christian, but we Muslims don't have any celebrations for the occasion