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Related: About this forumPassover, Easter, Ramadan -- and interfaith America in action
From the article:
Easter is the death of one paradigm and the rising of another.
Ramadan commemorates the end of jahiliyya, the period of darkness, which is vanquished in the emerging light of the Quran.
These three periods of holiness will occur within days of each other this year, as will sacred events for Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists and Baha'is.
Collectively they carry a common message: The cosmic calendar calls us to renewal, forever changing the way we look at our lives in the material world.
To read more:
https://religionnews.com/2020/04/10/passover-easter-ramadan-and-interfaith-america-in-action/
edhopper
(35,047 posts)Based on newer myths. But the message is life renews.
guillaumeb
(42,649 posts)I hope you are staying safe, and sane.
I am staying safe.
edhopper
(35,047 posts)here in NYC.
You too.
Igel
(36,230 posts)The calendar seems to have been purified of things like intercalary months that kept spring in spring.
With them, and going by month names, Ramadan was originally in the summer.
Without them, Ramadan shifts around the year, moving a certain amount of time (compared to the Western calendar or the equinoxes), and is as much winter and fall as it is spring.
The one possibility is that in the year that the fasting was instituted it was taken from an otherwise unknown spring festival with no real preparation, and then got "stuck" in that month. That seems highly unlikely, and the main reason to suggest it is to find some way for the hypothesis we want to be true to actually be true.