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Re: Hallowe'en Down Under?

From David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com>
Newsgroups alt.fan.countries.new-zealand, soc.culture.new-zealand, nz.general, alt.fan.countries.australia, soc.culture.australian, aus.general
Subject Re: Hallowe'en Down Under?
Date 2024-05-04 18:04 -0230
Organization Eternal September
Message-ID <0001HW.2BE6D3540002B71770000DC9138F@news.eternal-september.org> (permalink)
References <0001HW.2BE05E4F003E454A70000FF8838F@news.eternal-september.org>

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On Apr 29, 2024, David Dalton wrote
(in article<0001HW.2BE05E4F003E454A70000FF8838F@news.eternal-september.org>):

> I know that most pagans in the northern hemisphere celebrate
> Beltane on May 1 while many in the southern hemisphere
> celebrate Samhain then.

However, if you define it as halfway between the equinox and
the solstice, it is exactly 1158 UTC May 5, 2024, not May 1.

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David Dalton dalton@nfld.com https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page)
https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page)
“Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to
find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)

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