This is a always developing calendar with important days to remember for Pagan Memory and with the themes we deal with across the months. Here you won't find any Pagan festival, since there are many calendars about them, also available on the Internet
To make order among the several activities for the European Pagan Memory Day project, we established to count a Pagan Memory Year. Our Pagan Memory Year begins on the 24th February, with the European Pagan Memory Day so assuming the meaning of the beginning of the reconstruction, and ends on the 15th February, a year later, the day on which the last pagan fire in Europe was estinguished in Lithuania. Between one year and the next one there are some 'dark' days, dedicated to consideration, silence and preparation, similar to that period of thinking and purification that many ancient populations put in their calendars before the beginning of a new year.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
January
This month we talk about: Paganism and modern society
- 9th January 995-1000(?): day of remembrance for Raud the Strong, who, during the forced conversion of Norway by king Olaf Tryggvason, declared himself to be faithful to old paganism and was therefore brutally killed.
- 19th January 1897: Károly Kerényi was born
- 23rd January 1921: Marjia Gimbutas was born
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February
This month we talk about: The European Pagan Memory Day project
- 2nd February 1994: Marjia Gimbutas died
- 9th February 995-1000(?): day of remembrance for Eyvind Kinnrifi, another victim of the forced conversion of Norway by king Olaf Tryggvason.
- 15th February 1385: Jogaila, king of Lithuania, converted to christianity and so began the fight against the last kind of paganism survived in Europe
- 24th February: EUROPEAN PAGAN MEMORY DAY
- 24th February 391: Theodosius forbids to look at pagan statues, rites are declared outlaw and so attending to the temples (Cod. Theod. XVI, 10, 10). Though according to some sources this edict was issued on the 22nd February, we chose this day for the European Pagan Memory Day because it is said that in this day Vesta's fire in Rome, the symbol of Roman paganism, was no longer attended and this was the first sacred fire which was set off in Europe.
- 27th February 380: Theodosius declares christianity to be the state religion on the Roman Empire (Cod. Theod. XVI, 1, 2)
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March
This month we talk about: The Feminine
- 4th March 1898: Georges Dumezil was born
- 8th March: International Women's day
- 9th March 995-1000(?): day of remembrance for Oliver the Martyr, put to death during Norway's forced conversion by king Olaf Tryggvason.
- 22nd March: World Day for Water
- Between March and April, Hypatia the philosopher was killed (the exact day is not known)
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April
This month we talk about: The demonization of Paganism
- 12th April 1926: James Hillman was born
- 14th April 1973: Károly Kerényi died
- 22nd April: Earth Day
- 23rd April: International Day of the Book
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May
This month we talk about: Gods and Goddesses
- 3rd May: World Press Freedom Day
- 9th May: European Day
- 9th May 995-1000(?): day of remembrance for Guthroth, one of the Minor kings of Norway, who opposed to king Olaf Tryggvason's politics of forced conversion of the country and therefore had his tongue cut out.
- 17th May: World Information Society Day
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June
This month we talk about: Relations between paganisms
- 5th June: World Environment Day
- 8th June 423: an edict compared Paganism to the devil worship
- 16th June 386: an edict outlawed the care of Pagan temples
- 22nd June 1874: Walter F. Otto was born
- 26th June 363: Julian the Emperor died
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July
This month we talk about: Renewals of Paganism
- 13th July 399: the Emperor Arcadius prescribed that all the remaining Pagan temples must be destroyed
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August
This month we talk about: Renewals of Paganism
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September
This month we talk about: Against Pagans
- 23rd September 1958: Walter F. Otto died
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October
This month we talk about: Pagan practices and cult
- 11th October 1986: Georges Dumezil died
- 27th October 2011: James Hillman died
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November
This month we talk about: Paganism and the Nature around
- 8th November 392: another edict outlawing rites as Gentilicia superstitio
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December
This month we talk about: The "santification" of Paganism
- 7th December 396: an edict declares the practice of paganism to be high treason
- 10th December: Human Rights Day
- 11th December 361: Julian the Emperor began the restoration of Paganism
- 23rd December 364: the properties of some temples were confiscated and the capital punishment was established for Pagan private rites
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Thanks to the website Asatru Alliance for Asatru's days of remembrance: visit this site to know more about Asatru Holidays
