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New Years Around The World
Long Ago Festivals
Ancient Egypt
In ancient Egypt, New Year was celebrated at the time the River Nile flooded, which was near the end of September. The flooding of the Nile was very important because without it, the people would not have been able to grow crops in the dry desert.
At New Year, statues of the god, Amon and his wife and son were taken up the Nile by boat. Singing, dancing, and feasting was done for a month, and then the statues were taken back to the temple.
Babylonia
Babylonia lay in what is now the country of Iraq. Their New Year was in the Spring. During the festival, the king was stripped of his clothes and sent away, and for a few days everyone could do just what they liked. Then the king returned in a grand procession, dressed in fine robes. Then, everyone had to return to work and behave properly. Thus, each New Year, the people made a new start to their lives.
The Romans
For a long time the Romans celebrated New Year on the first of March. Then, in 46 BC, the Emperor Julius Caesar began a new calendar. It was the calendar that we still use today, and thus the New Year date was changed to the first day of January.
January is named after the Roman god Janus, who was always shown as having two heads. He looked back to the last year and forward to the new one.
The Roman New Year festival was called the Calends, and people decorated their homes and gave each other gifts. Slaves and their masters ate and drank together, and people could do what they wanted to for a few days.
The Celts
The Celts were the people who lived in Gaul, now called France, and parts of Britain before the Romans arrived there. Their New Year festival was called Samhain. It took place at the end of October, and Samhain means 'summer's end'.
At Samhain, the Celts gathered mistletoe to keep ghosts away, because they believed this was the time when the ghosts of the dead returned to haunt the living.
Jewish New Year
The Jewish New Year is called Rosh Hashanah. It is a holy time when people think of the things they have done wrong in the past, and they promise to do better in the future.
Special services are held in synagogues, and an instrument called a Shofar, which is made from a ram's horn is played. Children are given new clothes, and New Year loaves are baked and fruit is eaten to remind people of harvest time.
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2. Walk, don't run.
3. Stay on Sidewalks
4. Obey traffic signals
5. Stay in familiar neighborhoods
6. Don't cut across yards or driveways.
7. Wear a watch you can read in the dark.
8. Make sure costumes don't drag on the ground.
9. Shoes should fit (even if they don't go with your costume)
10. Avoid wearing masks while walking from house to house.
11. Carry only flexible knives, swords or other props.
12. (If no sidewalk) walk on the left side of the road facing traffic
13. Wear clothing with reflective markings or tape.
14. Approach only houses that are lit.
15. Stay away from and don't pet animals you don't know.
16. Don't eat any candy till you get home and an adult checks it. (ask them to taste it for you)
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