#gerda goddess

[tuntu2340]

Moodboard offering for Gerd 🏔️💙🫶🏼🦋

[haggishlyhagging]

It is characteristic of leadership in this early period that there is a merging of divine and secular power personified by the ruler. The king list, a document written down in about 1800 B.C., traces the successive dynasties for the major cities in Mesopotamia back into the third millennium. While the chronologies are somewhat inflated, archaeologists have verified some of the data with other evidence. The earliest Sumerian dynasties were based in the cities of Kish, Warka, and Ur. According to the king list, the founder of the dynasty of Kish was Queen Ku-Baba, who is listed as having reigned a hundred years. She is identified as having formerly been a tavern-keeper, an occupation which puts her at the margins of society. She was later identified with the goddess Kubaba, who was worshiped in Northern Mesopotamia. She is the only woman listed in the king list as reigning in her own right, but the merging of her historic personality with that of a divinity is not unlike that of the mythical demigod Gilgamesh, ruler of Warka, who supposedly reigned in the Early Dynastic period, but for whose historical existence there is no hard evidence, and whose exploits are immortalized in the epic of Gilgamesh.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy

[beezonia]

list of justice vs fool personas!! Lets see if you can guess who’s is whose! ——

Turpin (Dick Turpin - English Highwayman)

Kisa (Icelandic fairytale - Kisa The Cat)

Jormungandr (Norse Mythology)

Gerda (From the fairytale Snow Queen)

Satine (Inspired by Satine from Moulin Rouge)

Shiratori (Inspired by the prison breaker of the same name)

Gigabyte (Inspired by the hacker of the same name)

Maid Marian (From the tale of Robin Hood)

Eris (Greek Goddess of Discord)

——-

@39tn39

[femalethink]

We have seen how men appropriated and then transformed the major symbols of female power: the power of the Mother-Goddess and the fertility-goddesses. We have seen how men constructed theologies based on the counterfactual metaphor of male procreativity and redefined female existence in a narrow and sexually dependent way. We have seen, finally, how the very metaphors for gender have expressed the male as norm and the female as deviant; the male as whole and powerful, the female as unfinished, mutilated, and lacking in autonomy. On the basis of such symbolic constructs, embedded in Greek philosophy, the Judeo-Christian theologies, and the legal tradition on which Western civilization is built, men have explained the world in their own terms and defined the important questions so as to make themselves the center of discourse.

By making the term "man" subsume "woman" and arrogate to itself the representation of all of humanity, men have built a conceptual error of vast proportion into all of their thought. By taking the half for the whole, they have not only missed the essence of whatever they are describing, but they have distorted it in such a fashion that they cannot see it correctly. As long as men believed the earth to be flat, they could not understand its reality, its function, and its actual relationship to other bodies in the universe. As long as men believe their experiences, their viewpoint, and their ideas represent all of human experience and all of human thought, they are not only unable to define correctly in the abstract, but they are unable to describe reality accurately.

The androcentric fallacy, which is built into all the mental constructs of Western civilization, cannot be rectified simply by "adding women." What it demands for rectification is a radical restructuring of thought and analysis which once and for all accepts the fact that humanity consists in equal parts of men and women and that the experiences, thoughts, and insights of both sexes must be represented in every generalization that is made about human beings.

—Gerda Lerner, “The Creation of Patriarchy.”

[helenapsent]

Well, okay, well, actually the bonus chapter, which is called "The Curse of Thumbelina"

This time we play as Gerda, our golden girl 🥰

So! It seemed to end well, but no, something went fucked up again: some nightmares with my brother and some micro-girl. What are we doing?? That's right, we're going to deal with it!!!

We found the back door to the castle, and there's stuff lying around, and where's the dyed brother himself? It's not clear. We dig, we dig, we go into the cave, and there, SUDDENLY, Snow White's son is hanging from the ceiling in a spider shibari. What he forgot there is not clear, he says, just went for a walk and well… stuck beautifully))

What about Gerda? Nothing, she unraveled it, they went to find out what happened, they found a micro-bead. And she turns out to be the same one! She's either a girl or a thing! Wow! So what is this? A dream come true? Holy shit!

Okay, this little girl said she doesn't remember a damn thing, she knows Kai is gone and she's being eaten by flying monkeys (literally). Sow, me and my mom's friend's son promised to protect her-- -fucked up the little girl in a second good for us))

We went bushwalking and found our painted brothel boy, Kai. This fool decided to shrink down to the size of Thumbelina (a botanist who brews potions - woe in the family).

Gradually we learn that it turns out that Thumbelina is not Thumbelina at all, but the entire GODDESS OF HARMONY (no, not Celestia, but I wanted to (9(( ), and she was cursed by Gothel. How did that happen? Well, she just poured tea on her, poisoned her, insulted her well, and now the world is in decline, and the Goddess is depressed at zero years old, and her HP is reduced.

Anyway, somehow we found our micro-goddess, they tried to drag her into a portal to the world of the dead, but MOMMY'S FRIEND'S SON SHOOT ACCURATELY, the portal doesn't work, the little girl is saved, everything's fucking fine ✌✨

We took her to the throne, she remembered everything, "from the heart to the soul, thank you, I went to recover, because it is not good to be a micro-girl, it is not authoritative it turns out"

[gefdreamsofthesea]

I bought the Norse Goddess Rune Oracle, which is surprisingly not the worst product on runes or the goddesses I have experienced. It doesn't sugarcoat Rindr or Gerda's stories. I many of the keywords and feel like the rune associations generally match my understanding of the goddesses. She includes cards for reversed or "merkstave" runes, you can remove them from the deck but they also have goddesses associated with them. (Ex. Laguz reversed is represented by Rán)

I like that the cards are edged in red as a nod to "staining" the runes (would not recommend staining your cards).

I feel like a lot of folks will be turned off by the....cartoonish....art and tbh I was too but now I'm attached to it. I feel like I really judged this deck based on its box art (and honestly I think they could've chosen almost any other image).

[honestlyboringperson]

Okay uh-

Persona 3

Sunny - Morpheus (God of Dreams)

Basil - Persephone (Goddess of Spring & The Underworld)

Kel - Perseus (Slayer of Medusa)

Hero - Achilles (The Finest Greek Warrior of The Trojan War)

Aubrey - Erinyes (The Personifications of Rightful Vengeance)

Mari - Calliope (The Muse of Epic Poetry)

Persona 4

Sunny - Ōhirume (Goddess of the Sun)

Basil - Kodama (The Spirits of Old Trees)

Kel - Issun-Boshi (One Inch Hero)

Hero - Tennō Heika (The Title of Emperor of Japan & One of the Many Consorts of Kaguya-Hime)

Aubrey - Amanozako (The Personification of Susano-o’s Unstoppable Rage)

Mari - Kannon (Bodhisattva Associated with Compassion)

Persona 5

Sunny - Horla (Extraterrestrial Being that Torments the Mind)

Basil - Madremonte (Being that Protects the Rainforests at Any Cost Necessary)

Kel - Percy Blakeney (French Vigilante that Saved Aristocrats from The Guillotine)

Hero - D’Artagan (Part of the Three Musketeers and Lieutenant of the Musketeers)

Aubrey - Bloody Mary (Vengeful Spirit of Woman Wrongfully Accused of Witchcraft)

Mari - Gerda (Young Girl Who Bested the Snow Queen)

uhhhhh idfk. personas your omori

(the story and their specific roles change in each game, but their arcanas always stay the same)

[heavenboy09]

Well Everyone March is Finally here

And you know what that means

Today is the 1st Day of Women's History Month

Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. It is celebrated during March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, corresponding with International Women's Day on March 8, and during October in Canada, corresponding with the celebration of Persons Day on October 18.

The commemoration began in 1978 as "Women's History day" in Sonoma County, California, and was championed by Gerda Lerner and the National Women's History Alliance to be recognized as a national week (1980) and then month (1987) in the United States, spreading internationally after that.

Celebrate The Women, Who Have Empowered Us Men and The World Over for Centuries to come and Beyond.

Just don't let it go all to their heads though lol. Yes Ladies I am talking to you.

Alright Now. Let's Behave.

Anyway Go Forth You Super / Wonder Women, Goddesses and Little Princesses and Queens alike and Make History Yours To Be Acknowledged For All Times.

THIS IS IS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

👩 👩‍👧 👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 🧕 👨‍👩‍👧 👨‍👩‍��‍👧 🚺👧🤼‍♀️👩‍👦‍👦🤰👵🤾‍♀️👩‍🎨⛹️‍♀️👧🏻👧🏼👧🏽👧🏾👧🏿🤼🏻‍♀️🤼🏼‍♀️🤼🏽‍♀️🤼🏾‍♀️🤼🏿‍♀️🤰🏻🤰🏼🤰🏽🤰🏾👵🏻👵🏼👵🏽👵🏾👵🏿🤾🏻‍♀️🤾🏼‍♀️🤾🏽‍♀️🤾🏾‍♀️🤾🏿‍♀️👩🏻‍🎨👩🏼‍🎨👩🏽‍🎨👩🏾‍🎨👩🏿‍🎨⛹🏻‍♀️⛹🏼‍♀️⛹🏽‍♀️⛹🏾‍♀️⛹🏿‍♀️🚺

#WomensHistoryMonth #Women #WomanPower #womenempoweringwomen #girls #girlpower #womenhistory #WonderWomen

[askgothamshitty]

Do you think feminists could stand to cultivate a more positive outlook towards the choice to have children? I've noticed when it comes the bodily autonomy discussion, wd put most of the emphasis on the "choosing not to have a baby" side of the argument, leaving the other side to be claimed by pronatalists like tradwives and redpill. I've been reading a lot about pagan practices and beliefs around reproduction and motherhood. I'm not even pagan, it's just the only way I've found to scratch the itch of wanting to see fertility and maternity venerated in a way that centers the woman and doesn't reinforce the commodification of the female body.

Anonymous

14 Feb

I think that's a inaccurate assessment of the situation. What came first was patriarchy/capitalism's emphasis on marrying and having a child, as endorsed by pro-natalists, traditionalists, and misogynists. Feminism then came as a response to this, asserting the importance of a woman's right to not reproduce.

I think that, so long as dominant society expects, endorses, and enforces motherhood out of women, feminism should unapologetically and militantly assert the choice to not have a child. In that context, it will always be subversive and insurrectionary. There is no reclaiming motherhood so long as patriarchal capitalism exists.

I'm no expert on paganism but I'd be careful with those depictions of motherhood. Venerating women as reproductive goddesses still existed within the context of patriarchy and enforced motherhood as the natural role for women. I think Gerda Lerner talks about this in The Creation of Patriarchy.

[tuntu2340]

The rune Ingwaz

🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

New beginnings, growth, taking initiative, and it is associated with the god Frey, but it also reminds me of his wife Gerd 🥰🫐

[fembrie]

I try not to interact with bait accounts like this one, but this is actually a great opener to feminist anthropology!

“Many cultures had matriarchal societies even here in the west.”

Incorrect. The search for matriarchal societies started with 19th century maternal feminists theorising that women’s virtuosity, stemming from their maternal instincts and weaker sex drives (aka biological sex differences), should be the basis of granting them access to the public domain (work, voting rights, etc.). Just pointing this out because I do find a Tumblrina in agreement with biological essentialists over a radical feminist argument very very funny, considering TRA orthodoxy.

Anyways, here is Gerda Lerner, academic historian, summarising anthropology research on matriarchies in The Creation of the Patriarchy:

“(1) Most of the evidence for female equality in societies derives from matrilineal, matrilocal societies, which are historically transitional and currently vanishing.

(2) While matriliny and matrilocality confer certain rights and privileges on women, decision-making power within the kinship group nevertheless rests with elder males.

(3) Patrilineal descent does not imply subjugation of women nor does matrilineal descent indicate matriarchy.

(4) Seen over time, matrilineal societies have been unable to adapt to competitive, exploitative, techno-economic systems and have given way to patrilineal societies.”

Advocates of the matriarchy theory rely on muddying definitions to make their case, and absence of clear-cut male dominance or even complementarity have been taken as evidence of matriarchy. With Iroquois women for example, their high status and the powerful positions they took on were interpreted as evidence of a "matriarchal" society (Leacock bent the definition of the word to argue this), even though those women were never political leaders of the tribe.

Those who stick to the definition of an inversion of patriarchy can only rely on mythology and religious symbolism, such as Mother Goddess figures - which is not reliable evidence since symbolic idolatry of women has coexisted with the low status of women throughout history. See: Virgin Mary in the Middle Ages, the lady of plantation in antebellum America, and even Hollywood starlets in modern day. (Also, proposed evidence for matriarchy directly contradicts what you said about religion - really goes to show how much you know what you're talking about).

As a bonus, I will direct you to the more sound stance taken against the idea of patriarchy existing transhistorically: look up Origins of by Engels, read about the marxist argument for agriculture, class society and women's oppression, read Martha Gimenez's marxist feminist anthology of essays, and research primitive communism and egalitarian pre-agricultural societies. So that you can hold your ground next time. :P

separatists carry radblr on their backs cos if this was my day 1 of radical feminism and I had just got done reading about sex classes and male socialisation and how men have exploited women through interpersonal relationships since the dawn of time, and then I hopped online and came across a bunch of het-partnered radfems who believed they'd found one of the good ones. I don't think I could've taken any of this seriously

[haggishlyhagging]

Naming has profound significance in the Old Mesopotamian belief system. The name reveals the essence of the bearer; it also carries magic power. The concept lives on through the millennia in myth and fairy tale. The person who can guess the name of another acquires power over him, as in the German fairy tale "Rumpelstilskin." A person newly endowed with power is renamed. Thus, the god Marduk, in the Babylonian creation myth, is given fifty names as tokens of his power. We will discuss later how this power of names and naming is used in the Book of Genesis. What is important to observe here is that the concept of creation has changed, at a certain period in history, from being merely the acting out of the mystic force of female fertility to being a conscious act of creation, often involving god-figures of both sexes. This element of consciousness, expressed in "the idea," "the concept," "the name" of that which will be created, may be the reflection of an altered human consciousness due to significant changes in society.

The time when these concepts first appear is the time when writing has been “invented” and with it history. Record-keeping and the elaboration of symbol systems demonstrate the power of abstraction. The name recorded enters history and becomes immortal. This must have appeared as magical to contemporaries. Writing, record-keeping, mathematical thinking, and the elaboration of various symbol systems altered people's perception of their relation to time and space. It should not surprise us to find that religious myths reflected these changes in consciousness.

From the point of view of this study, which focuses on the development and institutionalization of patriarchal gender symbols, we should notice that the symbolification of the capacity to create, as in the concept of naming, simplifies the move away from the Mother-Goddess as the sole principle of creativity.

-Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy

[brookston]

Holidays 1.31

Holidays

Amartithi (Meher Baba; India)

Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day

Backwards Day

Child Labor Day

Dicing for Maid's Money Day (Surrey, UK)

Eve of Brigantia (Ireland)

Feast of Great Typos

Hell Is Freezing Over Day

Hug an Economist Day

Inspire Your Heart With Art Day

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Men & Boys

International Day of the Magicians

International Omphalocele Awareness Day

National Seth Day

International Street Children’s Day

International Zebra Day

Jackie Robinson Day

Me-Dam-Me-Phi (Assam, India)

National Bug Busting Day (UK)

National Gorilla Suit Day (Don Martin, in Mad Magazine)

National Music Therapy Day (Mexico)

National Pick on Lindsay Day

National Punk Day

Nelson Day (New Zealand)

Play An Old Game You Haven't Played In Years Night

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Scotch Tape Day

Street Children's Day (Austria)

St. Veronus' Day (patron saint of Lembeek & Belgian brewers)

Thermos Bottle Day

Tupiza New Year (Indigenous Bolivia)

Twist Off Cap Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brandy Alexander Day

Eat Brussels Sprouts Day

National Hot Chocolate Day

5th & Last Tuesday in January

A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day [Last Tuesday]

National Plan for Vacation Day [Last Tuesday]

Up Helly Aa Day (Scotland) [Last Tuesday]

Independence Days

Ladoland (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Nauru (from Australia, 1968)

Varladia (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anacreon (Positivist; Saint)

Banyu Pinaruh (Water Purification Ceremony; Bali)

Celebration of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons; Old European Lunar New Year) [Thru 2.3]

Cyrus and John (Christian; Martyrs)

Disfest (a.k.a. Disablot (Sacrifice Homoring the Disir, all female relatives from forever)

Domitius (Domice) of Amiens (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Transmission Errors

Francis Xavier Bianchi (Christian; Saint)

Geminianus (Christian; Saint)

Honey Badger Avoidance (Pastafarian)

John Bosco (Christian; Saint)

Julius of Novara (Christian; Saint)

Ludovica (Christian; Blessed)

Mary the Gorilla (Muppetism)

Mauni Amavasya (Day of Silence; Hinduism) [1st New Moon @ Jan/Feb]

Máedóc (a.k.a. Maidoc, Mogue, Aidan, Aiden)

Marcella (Christian; Saint) Navajo Sing (Preparation Festival for Coming Agricultural Season) [Through 2.8]

Peter Nolasco (Christian; Saint)

Samuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))

Seapion (Christian; Saint)

Theodore Kaczinski Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Tysul (Christian; Saint)

Ulphia (Christian; Saint)

Valkyries’ Day (Norse)

Veronus  (Christian; Saint) [Lembeek & Belgian brewers]

Wilgils (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 31 [11 of 72]

Premieres

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (TV Film; 1974)

Bellerophon, by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera; 1679)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Film; 1986)

Family Guy (Animated TV Series; 1999)

The Green Hornet (Radio Series; 1936)

Key & Peele (TV Series; 2012)

The Lone Ranger (Radio Series; 1933)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Film; 1941)

Murphy’s Romance (Film; 1986)

Mystery Girl, by Roy Orbison (Album; 1989)

Ragnarok (TV Series; 2020)

These Are My Children (TV Soap Opera; 1949) [1st TV Soap Opera]

The Witness for the Prosecution, by Agatha Christie (Short Story; 1948)

The Wonder Years (TV Series; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Johannes, Marcella (Austria)

Ivan, Julije, Vanja (Croatia)

Marika (Czech Republic)

Vigilius (Denmark)

Meeland, Meelik, Meelis, Meelit, Meelitu, Meelo, Meelu (Estonia)

Alli (Finland)

Marcelle (France)

Johannes, Marcella, Rudbert (Germany)

Evdoxia, Kyros (Greece)

Gerda, Marcella (Hungary)

Geminiano, Giovanni (Italy)

Dekla, Jalna, Tekla, Tikla, Violeta (Latvia)

Astra, Budvilė, Marcelė, Skirmantas (Lithuania)

Idun, Ivar (Norway)

Cyrus, Euzebiusz, Jan, Ksawery, Ludwik, Marceli, Marcelin, Marcelina, Piotr, Spycigniew, Wirgiliusz (Poland)

Chir, Ioan (Romania)

Ksenia (Russia)

Emil (Slovakia)

Juan, Marcela (Spain)

Ivar, Joar (Sweden)

Cyrus, Kira, Kyra, Lona, Loni, Lonnie, Scarlett, Zane (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 31 of 2023; 334 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 5 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 10 (Ji-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Shevat 5783

Islamic: 9 Rajab II 1444

J Cal: 1 Xin; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 16 January 2023

Moon: 80%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 3 Homer (2nd Month) [Anacreon)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 41 of 90)

Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Año Nuevo en Tupiza (Tupiza New Year; Indigenous Bolivia)

Xīn (Month 2 of 12; J Calendar)

[femalethink]

Gerda Lerner locates as the advent of patriarchal social systems in the "invention of hierarchy," when "difference" becomes dominance. The pornographic imagination reinforces this inegalitarian gender arrangement, and simultaneously eroticizes it.

.... Nowadays, the highly evolved man is still supposed to be taller, stronger, richer, older, and colder—in short, more powerful—than his mate. The woman is shorter, weaker, poorer, decorative, vulnerable, younger, emotionally warmer—in short, socially powerless. These caricatures, in turn, are attracted only to each other and turned on by the power discrepancy between them.

—Jane Caputi, "Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power, and Popular Culture."

[helenapsent]

Okay, I won't break my tradition. I'll tell you what killed me in "Dark Parables" part 7, specifically "Ballad of Rapunzel"

First, the events here take place 10 years after the first 5 games. In one of the corners of the world began to grow hogweed, a dangerous flower that causes fatal allergies))

And its growth is promoted (attention) by the SINGINGING RAPUNZEL. And she sings so well that her voice can be heard literally EVERYWHERE, so naturally this weed has grown just about everywhere. And we, of course, need to get rid of it!)0)) But to do that, we again need to experience all the sins of humanity, including fairy tale bullshit))

However! Suddenly we meet some old acquaintances, and not just acquaintances, but people we've already saved! Mostly Gerda and Kai, who decided to dye his hair blond, from the 3rd part, AND EVEN THE SNOW QUEEN - oh, oops, the SNOW WHITE came, so we got the whole tandem together))

However!!! As it turned out, Snow White has a BROTHER (with whom she quarreled in Part 3, in fact, why haven't we seen him), and it's her Brother who came for Rapunzel himself, since they are engaged And with Rapunzel everything is not so simple, because her half-brother makes her throat in the morning (there are no roosters anywhere, we have to get out of it somehow). And at the same time, she's the one spreading the flowers. And all because the little one can not contact with anyone except her sister (her touch KILLS literally), as only she is immune to the little one))

With all of this, to stop the allergy apocalypse, you have to use all the flower power that the goddess Flora bestowed on all of our kents, but in the end we only used ancient artifacts to save everyone. BUT BECAUSE THERE ARE THREE, AND THERE ARE THREE ENDINGS, in fact, you can only pick one item and get one ending. You want to get all of them? How naive~ You have to replay the whole game under a different nickname to do that! ^^

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 1.31

Holidays

Amartithi (Meher Baba; India)

Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day

Backwards Day

Child Labor Day

Dicing for Maid's Money Day (Surrey, UK)

Eve of Brigantia (Ireland)

Feast of Great Typos

Hell Is Freezing Over Day

Hug an Economist Day

Inspire Your Heart With Art Day

International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Men & Boys

International Day of the Magicians

International Omphalocele Awareness Day

National Seth Day

International Street Children’s Day

International Zebra Day

Jackie Robinson Day

Me-Dam-Me-Phi (Assam, India)

National Bug Busting Day (UK)

National Gorilla Suit Day (Don Martin, in Mad Magazine)

National Music Therapy Day (Mexico)

National Pick on Lindsay Day

National Punk Day

Nelson Day (New Zealand)

Play An Old Game You Haven't Played In Years Night

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Scotch Tape Day

Street Children's Day (Austria)

St. Veronus' Day (patron saint of Lembeek & Belgian brewers)

Thermos Bottle Day

Tupiza New Year (Indigenous Bolivia)

Twist Off Cap Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Brandy Alexander Day

Eat Brussels Sprouts Day

National Hot Chocolate Day

5th & Last Tuesday in January

A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day [Last Tuesday]

National Plan for Vacation Day [Last Tuesday]

Up Helly Aa Day (Scotland) [Last Tuesday]

Independence Days

Ladoland (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Nauru (from Australia, 1968)

Varladia (Declared; 2022) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Anacreon (Positivist; Saint)

Banyu Pinaruh (Water Purification Ceremony; Bali)

Celebration of the Triple Goddess (Goddess of the Moon and the Seasons; Old European Lunar New Year) [Thru 2.3]

Cyrus and John (Christian; Martyrs)

Disfest (a.k.a. Disablot (Sacrifice Homoring the Disir, all female relatives from forever)

Domitius (Domice) of Amiens (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Isis (Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Transmission Errors

Francis Xavier Bianchi (Christian; Saint)

Geminianus (Christian; Saint)

Honey Badger Avoidance (Pastafarian)

John Bosco (Christian; Saint)

Julius of Novara (Christian; Saint)

Ludovica (Christian; Blessed)

Mary the Gorilla (Muppetism)

Mauni Amavasya (Day of Silence; Hinduism) [1st New Moon @ Jan/Feb]

Máedóc (a.k.a. Maidoc, Mogue, Aidan, Aiden)

Marcella (Christian; Saint) Navajo Sing (Preparation Festival for Coming Agricultural Season) [Through 2.8]

Peter Nolasco (Christian; Saint)

Samuel Shoemaker (Episcopal Church (USA))

Seapion (Christian; Saint)

Theodore Kaczinski Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Tysul (Christian; Saint)

Ulphia (Christian; Saint)

Valkyries’ Day (Norse)

Veronus  (Christian; Saint) [Lembeek & Belgian brewers]

Wilgils (Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Prime Number Day: 31 [11 of 72]

Premieres

The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (TV Film; 1974)

Bellerophon, by Jean-Baptiste Lully (Opera; 1679)

Down and Out in Beverly Hills (Film; 1986)

Family Guy (Animated TV Series; 1999)

The Green Hornet (Radio Series; 1936)

Key & Peele (TV Series; 2012)

The Lone Ranger (Radio Series; 1933)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (Film; 1941)

Murphy’s Romance (Film; 1986)

Mystery Girl, by Roy Orbison (Album; 1989)

Ragnarok (TV Series; 2020)

These Are My Children (TV Soap Opera; 1949) [1st TV Soap Opera]

The Witness for the Prosecution, by Agatha Christie (Short Story; 1948)

The Wonder Years (TV Series; 1988)

Today’s Name Days

Johannes, Marcella (Austria)

Ivan, Julije, Vanja (Croatia)

Marika (Czech Republic)

Vigilius (Denmark)

Meeland, Meelik, Meelis, Meelit, Meelitu, Meelo, Meelu (Estonia)

Alli (Finland)

Marcelle (France)

Johannes, Marcella, Rudbert (Germany)

Evdoxia, Kyros (Greece)

Gerda, Marcella (Hungary)

Geminiano, Giovanni (Italy)

Dekla, Jalna, Tekla, Tikla, Violeta (Latvia)

Astra, Budvilė, Marcelė, Skirmantas (Lithuania)

Idun, Ivar (Norway)

Cyrus, Euzebiusz, Jan, Ksawery, Ludwik, Marceli, Marcelin, Marcelina, Piotr, Spycigniew, Wirgiliusz (Poland)

Chir, Ioan (Romania)

Ksenia (Russia)

Emil (Slovakia)

Juan, Marcela (Spain)

Ivar, Joar (Sweden)

Cyrus, Kira, Kyra, Lona, Loni, Lonnie, Scarlett, Zane (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 31 of 2023; 334 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 5 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Luis (Rowan) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Jia-Yin), Day 10 (Ji-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 9 Shevat 5783

Islamic: 9 Rajab II 1444

J Cal: 1 Xin; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 16 January 2023

Moon: 80%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 3 Homer (2nd Month) [Anacreon)

Runic Half Month: Elhaz (Elk) [Day 6 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 41 of 90)

Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 10 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Año Nuevo en Tupiza (Tupiza New Year; Indigenous Bolivia)

Xīn (Month 2 of 12; J Calendar)