The seven Old Testament (=Hebrew) Festivals are:

7 feast of the Menorah

Spring festivals
  • Around start of April:
      1. Pesach / The Passover (Jesus Cross)
      1. Unleavened Bread: This feast was to last for 7 days
      1. First Fruits (Jesus ressurection)

Overlapped with pagan holiday: Easter➡ “Eostre” / Beltane

An outlier
  • Around half May:
      1. Shavuot / Feast of Weeks (Pentecost) – (50 days after ‘First Fruit’ is the First Harvest. First time Holy Spirit came onto disciples of Jesus Christ)

Overlapped with pagan holiday: None!

Fall festivals
  • Around start of October
      1. Rosh HaShanah/ Feast of Shouting / Trumpets (2nd coming of Christ)
      1. Yom Kippur / Day of Atonement
      1. Sukkot / Feast of Tabernacles

Overlapped with pagan holiday: Halloween/“All Hallows’ Day” ➡ Samain

An outlier

  • Around start of December:
    • Hanukkah / Feast of Lights - its origin is non-Mosaic (see link)

Overlapped with pagan holiday: Christmas

Overview of western holidays with pagan origins:

Despite Christianization, the importance of agricultural and social cycles had preserved “the ancient British festal system”, which he believed consisted of eight holidays corresponding to

  • Candlemas (2 February),
  • Lady Day (25 March),
  • May Day (1 May),
  • Midsummer Day (24 June),
  • Lammas (1 August),
  • Michaelmas (29 September),
  • Halloween (31 October),
  • Christmas (25 December).