Ascending Festival (Holy Day)- one of the holy days or festivals which once upon a time would have required a pilgrimage to a certain place for. The Fall High Holidays are Ascending Festivals as are Pentecost and Shavuot. Easter is not an Ascending Festival, but is a Seasonal One.
Seasonal Festival- A festival around which an entire season is built, Easter, Yule, and Christmas are Seasonal Festivals. Mabon is not a seasonal festival, but is connected to the Ascending Feasts of Rosh Hoshanah through Shemini Atzeret.
Cyclical or Regular Feasts- Shabbat and Rosh Chodesh and the Esbat which occur once a week and once a month and are sacred for their own sake. The Sabbats occur regularly but each is different from the other and not something for its own sake.
Low Feasts- Shabbat, Rosh Chodesh and other holy days that do not require an abstention from working or a major liturgy.
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