Frank Mayhar <frank at exit.com> writes: > David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > > Mia McDavid <mia_mcdavid at attbi.com> writes: > > > Happy Thanksgiving (or whatever you call it when there's nobody to > > > give thanks to! ;-> ) > > That's just what it's called. It's an eating holiday. > > Sort of the modern replacement for the pagan harvest festival holiday. > (In the same way that Christmas replaces Saturnalia and other pagan winter > solstice holidays and Easter replaces the vernal equinox/spring fertility > festival holidays [in the US, right down to the fecund Easter Bunny and > those inimitable symbols of fertility, eggs :-)].) Named after Est, whose symbols were the chicken and the rabbit, I thought? Though of course the transliteration is always questionable. -- David Dyer-Bennet, dd-b at dd-b.net / http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/ John Dyer-Bennet 1915-2002 Memorial Site http://john.dyer-bennet.net Dragaera mailing lists, see http://dragaera.info