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Lost Global Festivals and Traditions
Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
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Across
  • 1. Pad for festival involving priestesses guarding an eternal flame
  • 3. Roman festival of flowers and fertility now rarely recalled
  • 5. Obscure African harvest festival celebrated with dance and drums
  • 6. Egyptian temple festival venerating Hathor with forgotten rites
  • 9. Ancient Roman fertility festival involving ritual purification
  • 11. Festival named after a Celtic war horn used in ceremonies
  • 13. Roman festival honoring the god of sowing, lost over time
  • 15. Ancient European mid-summer celebration later replaced by newer rites
  • 17. Forgotten festival from Cameroon involving masquerade and rites
Down
  • 2. Old Roman festival dedicated to the goddess of hearth and home
  • 4. Lost Greek festival in celebration of Demeter and fertility
  • 7. Celtic spring festival, less known outside ancient Europe
  • 8. Celtic festival of fire marking the start of summer, now rare
  • 10. Faded Pacific Island festival honoring ancestors in ritual song
  • 12. Faded winter festival celebrated in the Himalayan region of Kashmir
  • 14. Medieval festival akin to carnival, which faded from records
  • 16. Ancient Tamil festival marking the end of spring
  • 18. Historic Kyoto festival once linked to appeasing disease-spirit

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