Oktoberfest

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Oktoberfest (Octoberfest)

***** Location: Germany
***** Season: Autumn
***** Category: Observance

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Explanation

The Oktoberfest in Munich, which usually starts in the middle of September (that is a good reason to call it OCTOBER fest) and runs only until the 3rd of October, is celebrated in many German communities all over the world where people love beer, saussages and companionship.

Next to the Christmas tree, the Oktoberfest is the most popular custom that Germany has ever exported. From Saturday thousands of thirsty tourists will flock to Munich for the world's biggest Oktoberfest.



The Munich Oktoberfest is the largest German Volksfest, or festival. It all began with the marriage celebration of the Bavarian crown prince Ludwig (later to become King Ludwig I.) to Princess Therese from the German kingdom of Saxony-Hildburghausen on Oct. 12, 1810.

Over the years, the beer fest has spread to many parts of the world. But not all are as old and traditional as the Munich festival. However, they have similarities: All serve lots of beer and authentic Bavarian meals to traditional Bavarian music played by local or some times exported German brass bands.

Read a lot more here
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,1329027,00.html

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The Oktoberfest 2004 has ended!
On the Germans national holiday, October 3rd, the 171st Oktoberfest has ended. In spite of the bad weather, 5.9 Million people visited the worlds biggest fair this year and drank approximately 5.5 million liters of beer. On the 17th of September 2005 the 172nd Oktoberfest will open its gates.


Look at some great highlights from 2004.
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/10/

Check it out here:
http://www.oktoberfest.de/en/index.php

And another German link
http://www.muenchen.de/Tourismus/Oktoberfest/89552/

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"Oktoberfest is a three-week festival held each year in Munich, Bavaria, Germany during late September and early October. It is one of the most famous events in the city and the world's largest fair, with some six million people attending
every year."

Many breweries in the USA make special beer at that time of the year and call it Oktoberfest. It is a tradition started by German immigrants many years ago.

© More in the WIKIPEDIA !


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USA
Fall is the season of Oktoberfests... folk festivals with live music, Bavarian treats, folk dancing, arts and crafts shows, ethnic food chalets, and of course a beer garden (Biergarten).
The background of Oktoberfest! is:
http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/egg/egg1097/oktoberfest.html

Carol Raisfeld

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HAIKU

Oktoberfest
a sampling of beer from
many kegs

Carol Raisfeld

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Oktoberfest unumgaenglich
von ottonormalverbraucher

De Musi spuid auf
Des Festbier fliesst in Stroemen
Bsuffa gema hoam

http://www.dulzinea.de/forum/haikus/e12782-gedicht.html

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Oktoberfest -
a drunken driver
sleeps in the car

Gabi Greve


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Kodak Moments of Oktoberfest:

two Chinese dressed
in Lederhosen and Dirndls
Munich's blue sky

Italians sing
Bavarian drinking songs
a German girl's smile

Oktoberfest
a sea of human heads
inside the beer tent

House of Horrors
hand in hand an old couple
giggling

slanted sunlight
in my gingerbread heart
her bite mark

a roller coaster
against the sunset sky
Sayonara

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, 2006







The 2012/179th Oktoberfest,
the biggest folk /beer festival in the world, came to end yesterday.
“Oktoberfest party goers glugged 6.9 million litres of beer.”

a line of waitresses
dancing on the table
smell of the Oktoberfest

Chen-ou Liu
Canada, 2012


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Related words

***** Harvest Thanksgiving (Christian communities)
Harvest Festival, Erntedankfest


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October (juugatsu)

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October (juugatsu　十月)

***** Location: Japan. worldwide
***** Season: Late Autumn
***** Category: Season

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Explanation



Haiku juugatsu in the Edo period relates to the climate of present-day November,
but some festivals are dated in our present-day October.

. . Names of Japanese months and their meanings . .

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. . . . AUTUMN
the complete SAIJIKI


nagatsuki,nagazuki 長月 (ながつき) "long month"
ninth lunar month, now 8 Oct – 6 Nov


Kannazuki - 　Month without Gods
tenth lunar month, now 7 Nov – 6 Dec


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October----The Changing Season
Inahata Teiko

October is the late autumn on the calendar. The sky is endlessly blue, hills and fields are covered with red and yellow leaves, plants bear fruit, and the air becomes clearer and colder. This month most distinctly shows the characteristics of autumn in the four seasons. Don’t you think so?

　October is the beautiful and comfortable season, which is blessed with opulent products. However, at the same time, there shows a sign of the degeneration of the creatures, which steals up from behind. Light and shadow contend in power each other. In the meantime, after passing a short period when all the mountains, rivers, trees and plants are filled with deep tranquility, shadow becomes predominant. The temperature goes down, born fruits fall down, red leaves turn to the withered color, and at last the leaves begin to fall gradually.
In a word, October is the changing season.

　Considering what sort of things nature has brought to the human beings through the above changes, we thank for the fact that we are given a lot of gifts.

©　Inahata Teiko : NATURE AND OUR LIFE

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Southern Hemisphere, Tropics ...

Adjustments for each region must be made.


Germany

Oktober, Goldener Oktober


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October night
dead leaves rush towards me

©　Martin Gottlieb Cohen, tinywords 2007


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October night
not a leaf flapping
not a sound

October night
flying ants join me
for dinner

October night
the eerie feeling
of aloneness

October night
a napping cat curled
at the doorstep

October night
a cup of hot chocolate
stirs my reverie

Willie Bongcaron, Philippines
October 2009


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October in the desert of Yemen

around the campfire
never felt so content ..
shooting stars

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a few stray camels
the only sign of life –
Milky way

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shortened day at a grave:
the dog kept guarding
his mistress' new tent

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the desert wolf digs
a deep burrow –
sand dunes transform
i)


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together ...
listening to
the wolves howl
ii)


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following the crack
in a mud wall ...
Pegasus' square
iii)

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i) meaning: daytime, to protect himself from the sun/heat gain


ii) meaning: wolves howl > Arabian or desert wolf is usually alone (due to the fact that food or prey is rare), but not in mating time [mating season from October to December]. They congregate together, than they start to howl.

Arabian wolves do not live in large packs; packs only during mating season, just mating packs.

iii) The autumn sky is dominated by the Great Square of Pegasus, four stars that form a huge square in the sky, which you can see if you look almost straight up.

Heike Gewi, Yemen
Ocotber 2009

YEMEN SAIJIKI


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*****　Calendar reference kigo


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. . . . AUTUMN
the complete SAIJIKI


. WKD : October - KIGO CALENDAR .

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