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Advent of Isis from Phoenicia, celebrated in Ancient Egypt, Rome
Isis discovered that the Ark of Osiris had been cast up by the Mediterranean in the region of the Phoenician Byblos, so journeyed across the sea to find it, and then brought it back with her to Egypt. Offerings were made on the seventh day of the month Tybi, roughly January 2.
The Egyptian deity Isis was honoured with a temple at Rome. Today, singers, musicians and dancers, mostly female, would perform at this temple during the festival of the Advent of Isis ...
1536 Anabaptist leader and social revolutionary, John of Leyden (John Bockhold), ‘The Prophet’, was executed. He had preached a coming apocalypse, and advocated polygamy and free love. John of Leyden was a tailor boy who became the leader of the Anabaptists of the German town of Munster on the executions of Muncer and Storck. His predecessors had tried to establish a theocracy. He had a magnificent coronation, and coins were struck for his reign; he was represented as a monarch and prophet in one.
He sent out twelve apostles to announce his reign through all Low Germany. He also married twelve wives at one time, decapitating one of them in the presence of the others when she was rude to him ...
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Advent of Isis from Phoenicia, celebrated in Ancient Egypt, Rome
Isis discovered that the Ark of Osiris had been cast up by the Mediterranean in the region of the Phoenician Byblos, so journeyed across the sea to find it, and then brought it back with her to Egypt. Offerings were made on the seventh day of the month Tybi, roughly January 2.
The Egyptian deity Isis was honoured with a temple at Rome. Today, singers, musicians and dancers, mostly female, would perform at this temple during the festival of the Advent of Isis ...
1536 Anabaptist leader and social revolutionary, John of Leyden (John Bockhold), ‘The Prophet’, was executed. He had preached a coming apocalypse, and advocated polygamy and free love. John of Leyden was a tailor boy who became the leader of the Anabaptists of the German town of Munster on the executions of Muncer and Storck. His predecessors had tried to establish a theocracy. He had a magnificent coronation, and coins were struck for his reign; he was represented as a monarch and prophet in one.
He sent out twelve apostles to announce his reign through all Low Germany. He also married twelve wives at one time, decapitating one of them in the presence of the others when she was rude to him ...
This is just a snippet of today's stories. Read all about today in folklore, historical oddities, inspiration and alternatives at the Wilson's Almanac Book of Days, every day. Click today's date when you're there.
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