Lithuanian ethnographic calendar

A threshold between old and new year, marked by water, grain, wishes, and weather signs.

The close of the Christmas season with blessed chalk, a star, and Three Kings processions.

A midwinter marker watched through badgers, hives, bear sleep, and signs of the coming summer.

Blessed candles, echoes of Thunder Day, and protective household light.

St Agatha bread day, where bread, fire, and Gabija memory protect the home.

Driving out winter with masks, Lasininis and Kanapinis, pancakes, noise, and community play.

The beginning of Lent, when Uzgavenes laughter gives way to ashes, quiet, and restraint.

Vilnius crafts, palms, wooden goods, and the festive market at the start of spring.

The stork-return day with signs for nests, livestock, sowing, and spring work.

Blessed palms, juniper, willow, and the Vilnius palm craft at the Easter threshold.

Spring jokes and tricks, with playfulness that stays understood by everyone.

Decorated eggs, lalavimas, resurrection morning, and the beginning of spring life.

A greenery feast connected with first pasture, spring force, and nature awakening.

The first driving of animals to pasture, with earth, dew, bread, and herd-protection customs.

A seasonal boundary where spring sowing, fields, and Ascension meet.

Birch branches, livestock, shepherds, eggs, and a community feast of greenery.

Nine herb wreaths, processions, field protection, and the close of Easter time.

Solstice night with dew, kupoles herbs, wreaths, water, and greeting the dawn.

St John's Day, name-day greetings, bonfires, wreaths, and the fern-flower legend.

A second midsummer feast with water, cloth, fishermen, and the first haymaking boundaries.

Rye-harvest completion, new bread, Ona name-day customs, and the summer harvest threshold.

Herbs, grain, garden produce, and the Assumption feast at the fullness of summer.

Harvest accounting, winter crops, potatoes, and the settling of the year around Michaelmas.

Ilges and Velines quiet, cemetery visits, candles, and remembrance of the dead.

The end of pasturing, hired-worker accounts, Goat Day, and shepherds calling winter.

The Advent threshold with cherry twigs, well divination, seeds, and dream questions.

Quiet, fasting, evening gatherings, Advent songs, wreath candles, and wolf days.

The holy evening with the family table, twelve dishes, hay, souls, and future-telling.

Christmas morning, returning light, songs, visits, and the joy of winter feasts.