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In Greek mythology, the Pleiades were the seven daughters of the Titan Atlas. He was forced to hold up the sky for eternity, and was therefore unable to protect his daughters. To save the sisters from being raped by the hunter Orion, Zeus transformed them into stars (doves).

Labor Day

Juneteenth - news didn't reach Texas until then!
Dating back to (June 19) 1865, Juneteenth commemorates the day when 250,000 slaves in the state of Texas, which became the last bastion for slavery during the final days of the Civil War, were declared free by the U.S. Army. Commemorates the "ending" of slavery in the United States.

Independence Day - 4th July history

Father’s Day - symbol of masculinity

Memorial Day - coffins vs caskets, civil war influence

Mother’s Day - Jarvis, daughter Anna, white carnation, protests, sanitarium paid for by commercial business

Puritans were kill joys

May Day
Floralia
Beltaine

Cinco de Mayo - civil war brotherhood 1862

April fools day

Easter - links to Passover, egg links to Egypt and India, when synagogues are erected, they are built to face Jerusalem, resurrection