Sinhalese & Tamil New Year Celebrations in Sydney Website: www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: Many countries in the world including Sri Lanka celebrate the first of January as a day of celebration. In 45BC, New Year’s Day was celebrated on January 1st for the first time in history as the Julian calendar took effect. According to tradition, during his reign 715-673 BCE Numa revised the Roman republican calendar so that January replaced March as the first month. It was a fitting choice, since January was named after Janus, the Roman god of all beginnings, and on the contrary March celebrated Mars, the god of war. Sinhalese and Tamil’s celebrated the New year based on the Sun’s movement from the Meena Rashiya (House of Pisces) to the Mesha Rashiya (House of Aries). Today, the sun’s entry into Aries is known as mesa Sankranti in Sanskrit. So, the traditional New Year in many South and Southeast ...
Apr 13, 2021
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