Ideas across traditions · ritual · Hebrew & Jewish
festival
Works in 8 traditions beyond Hebrew & Jewish attest this concept, on 56 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “feast”, “feast days”, “festum”, “heorte”; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.
Also under: “feast” · “feast days” · “festum” · “heorte”
In other traditions
Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.
Greek
- 375 BCEPlato, Republic VII (the cave; periagoge of the soul)same word and a translator’s rendering
- 375 BCEPlato, Republic (Book IX on dreams and the tyrannical soul; Book X Myth of Er)same word and a translator’s rendering
- 375 BCEPlato, Republic IX (the lawless desires in sleep) and Timaeus on the liversame word and a translator’s rendering
- 319 BCETheophrastus, Charactersa translator’s rendering
Hellenistic & Late Antique
- 50 BCEPseudo-Phocylides, Sentencesa translator’s rendering
Early Christian & Monastic
- 500 CEPseudo-Dionysius, Mystical Theologya translator’s rendering
Zoroastrian
- 880 CEWizīdagīhā ī Zādspram (Selections of Zādspram)a translator’s rendering
- 900 CEBundahishna translator’s rendering
- 900 CEBundahišna translator’s rendering
Medieval Latin
- 1265Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godheada translator’s rendering
- 1270Mechthild of Magdeburg, Das fliessende Licht der Gottheita translator’s rendering
- 1420Thomas à Kempis, De Imitatione Christia translator’s rendering
- 1420Thomas à Kempis, Imitatio Christia translator’s rendering
Byzantine & Orthodox
- 1330Nicephorus Gregoras, commentary on Synesius On Dreamsa translator’s rendering
Norse & Celtic
- 1835Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie (with Rydberg, Anderson)a translator’s rendering
- 1900Carmina Gadelicaa translator’s rendering
Arabic
- 1920Anthropology of jinn, possession and saints (Westermarck, Canaan, Zwemer)same word and a translator’s rendering
- feastall receive money, chickens, eggs, and other small presents from the people. Among the Mnâșăra, on the second day of theRitual and Belief in Morocco, Vol. 2, 1968, p. 162 · flagged as a term by the translator
- festivalvisiting different important shrines. Thus, many of the pilgrims to Nabi Musa The Tomb of the Prophet Moses , after theMohammedan Saints and Sanctuaries in Palestine, Unknown, p. 111 · flagged as a term by the translator
- festivalthe animal. The *debbâġa* tanners of Marrakesh receive a quarter of the meat of the camel they sacrifice at the *mûsem*Ritual and Belief in Morocco, Vol. 1, 1968, p. 220 · flagged as a term by the translator
At home in Hebrew & Jewish
- 30 CEPhilo, On Dreams (De somniis)same word and a translator’s rendering
- 200 CEPirkei Avotsame word
- 200 CEPirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers)same word
Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.