more than 160 years ago women began to organize a movement, both to defend their rights to recover ancient traditions. The UN adopted this day as the Women's Day in memory of a traumatic event that revealed the inhumane conditions under which forced women to work. The International Women's Day today is a political appointment and social reflection on the lives of women around the world but from ancient Greece, Alexandria, Rome, Africa and Japan, were held in March in rituals and tributes women's honor and power. In Rome the "Matronalia" honoring the patron goddess of women and family. Torches were lit in the temples, offered prayers and women received gifts from men. Ireland was the Feast of Rhiannon where the Vestal Virgins, priestesses of the goddess of Cleansing Fire, Vesta, the inspiration, was evoked and lit candles on your behalf to get inspiration. In old England, this was originally the Mother's Day. In Japan, the party took place the wrists, held especially for girls whose dolls representing their ancestors. In northern Africa honoring the Queen Mother, Isis, whose cult spread throughout Asia and Europe. Egyptian image (where the Queen Isis was the throne, authority and culture) in that the Goddess is breast-feeding her child, then extends to Christian image of Mary and Jesus, representing the fundamental link on which societies are built. As the month of the arrival of spring in the north, the celebrations began welcoming festival of flowers, colors, fruit. Fertility, joy, play and the greens of spring. The Feast of Aphrodite and her lover Adonis, celebrated the love and happiness of the couples and the "Liberalia" allowed, at the same time, slaves speak freely and to live up to certain freedoms that go beyond the limits normally imposed, as we were the carnival, also celebrated at this time. Purin's Eve among the Jews, celebrates Queen Esther who saved Jews from Haman who sought to kill them is a day to think about the power of women and the victory of women's strategies on violence against men. The feasts of Minerva, the goddess of arts and sciences; of Hilaria, the goddess of laughter, the German goddess of Eosta, rebirth and regeneration, as well as that of Hypatia (the pagan God who taught in Alexandria all philosophers and scholars teachers) call intelligence, ingenuity, creativity, boldness, humor and encourage us to celebrate these days our own festivities in honor of Women!
Jaqui Zieler
(From Every Day is a Fiesta, Z. Budapest)
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