Mothers Day

Mother's Day is a celebration honoring mothers and celebrating motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, yet most commonly in March, April, or May. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.

Celebrations of mothers and motherhood occur throughout the world; many of these can be traced back to ancient festivals, like the Greek cult to Cybele or the Roman festival of Hilaria. The modern US holiday is not directly related to these



Gregorian calendar
Occurrence Dates Country
Second Sunday of February
Feb 13, 2011
Feb 12, 2012
Feb 10, 2013
Norway


3 Mar
Georgia

8 Mar
Afghanistan
Albania
Armenia†

Azerbaijan
Belarus†
Bosnia and Herzegovina†

Bulgaria†
Kazakhstan†
Laos

Macedonia†
Republic of Moldova
Montenegro†
Romania†[10]

Serbia†
Ukraine†
Viet Nam†*


Fourth Sunday in Lent
Apr 3, 2011
Mar 18, 2012
Mar 10, 2013
Ireland
Nigeria

United Kingdom
Bangladesh


21 Mar
(vernal equinox)
Bahrain
Egypt
Jordan
Kuwait
Libya

Lebanon[11]
Oman
Palestinian territories
Qatar
Israeli Arabs[12]

Saudi Arabia
Sudan
Syria

United Arab Emirates
Yemen (all Arab countries in general)
Iraq[13]

25 Mar
Slovenia


7 Apr
Armenia


First Sunday in May
May 1, 2011
May 6, 2012
May 5, 2013
Hungary
Lithuania

Mozambique
Portugal

Spain


8 May
South Korea (Parents' Day)
Pakistan


10 May
El Salvador
Guatemala

Mexico


Second Sunday of May
May 8, 2011
May 13, 2012
May 12, 2013

Anguilla
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Bahamas
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Bermuda
Bonaire
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei

Canada
Chile
People's Republic of China†[14]
Colombia
Croatia
Cuba[15]
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czech Republic[16]
Denmark

Dominica
Ecuador
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Finland
Germany
Gold Coast
Greece
Grenada
Guyana
Honduras
Hong Kong
Iceland
India

Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Latvia*
Liechtenstein*
Macao
Malaysia
Malta
Burma
Netherlands
New Zealand
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Peru[17]

Philippines
Puerto Rico
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
Singapore
Sint Maarten
Slovakia[16]
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Suriname

Switzerland
Taiwan
Tanganyika
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
Viet Nam
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe


15 May
Paraguay (same day as Día de la Patria)[18]


26 May
Poland "Dzień Matki"


27 May
Bolivia[9]

Last Sunday of May
May 29, 2011
May 27, 2012
May 26, 2013
Algeria
Dominican Republic

France (First Sunday of June if Pentecost occurs on this day)
French Antilles (First Sunday of June if Pentecost occurs on this day)

Haiti[19] Mauritius
Morocco

Sweden
Tunisia


30 May
Nicaragua[20]


1 Jun
Mongolia† (The Mothers and Children's Day.)


Second Sunday of June
Jun 12, 2011
Jun 10, 2012
Jun 9, 2013
Luxembourg


Last Sunday of June
Jun 26, 2011
Jun 24, 2012
Jun 30, 2013
Kenya


12 Aug
Thailand (The birthday of Queen Sirikit)

15 Aug
Costa Rica
Antwerp (Belgium)

Second Monday of October
Oct 10, 2011
Oct 8, 2012
Oct 14, 2013
Malawi


14 Oct
Belarus


Third Sunday of October
Oct 16, 2011
Oct 21, 2012
Oct 20, 2013
Argentina (Día de la Madre)[21]


Last Sunday of November
Nov 27, 2011
Nov 25, 2012
Nov 24, 2013
Russia


8 Dec (Feast of the Immaculate Conception)
Panama[22]


22 Dec
Indonesia[23]


Other calendars
Occurrence Gregorian dates Country
Shevat 30
Between 30 January and 1 March Israel[24]

Baisakh Amavasya (Mata Tirtha Aunsi)
Between 19 and 29 April Nepal

20 Jumada al-thani[n 1]
24 May 2011 Iran[25]

POSEIDON

Poseidon (Greek: Ποσειδῶν) was the god of the sea, and, as "Earth-Shaker,"[1] of the earthquakes in Greek mythology.[2] The name of the sea-god Nethuns in Etruscan was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon. Linear B tablets show that Poseidon was venerated at Pylos and Thebes in pre-Olympian Bronze Age Greece, but he was integrated into the Olympian gods as the brother of Zeus and Hades.[2] Poseidon has many children. There is a Homeric hymn to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for Athens to Athena
Poseidon was a major civic god of several cities: in Athens, he was second only to Athena in importance, while in Corinth and many cities of Magna Graecia he was the chief god of the polis.[2]

In his benign aspect, Poseidon was seen as creating new islands and offering calm seas. When offended or ignored, he supposedly struck the ground with his trident and caused chaotic springs, earthquakes, drownings and shipwrecks. Sailors prayed to Poseidon for a safe voyage, sometimes drowning horses as a sacrifice; in this way, according to a fragmentary papyrus, Alexander the Great paused at the Syrian seashore before the climactic battle of Issus, and resorted to prayers, "invoking Poseidon the sea-god, for whom he ordered a four-horse chariot to be cast into the waves."[9]

According to Pausanias, Poseidon was one of the caretakers of the oracle at Delphi before Olympian Apollo took it over. Apollo and Poseidon worked closely in many realms: in colonization, for example, Delphic Apollo provided the authorization to go out and settle, while Poseidon watched over the colonists on their way, and provided the lustral water for the foundation-sacrifice. Xenophon's Anabasis describes a group of Spartan soldiers in 400–399 BCE singing to Poseidon a paean—a kind of hymn normally sung for Apollo.

Like Dionysus, who inflamed the maenads, Poseidon also caused certain forms of mental disturbance. A Hippocratic text of ca 400 BCE, On the Sacred Disease[10] says that he was blamed for certain types of epilepsy