Lighting candles and decorating evergreen trees and wreaths are often part of the Western Christian commemoration. The seven-day festival commences the day after Christmas and culminates on New Year's Day. The focus of Kwanzaa is centered on the seven principles known by the Swahili phrase Nguzo Saba . Many earth-based traditions honor the Goddess as the source of fire, poetry, arts, crafts, agriculture, and smith craft. A time for reflection upon the generative power of the universe.
Pancakes are customary.
Christians frequently refrain from eating certain foods during Lent and undertake acts of penitence. He is the root and support of the universe. He is the creative-regenerative flow of life that rushes through it. It marks the end of the period of the traditional Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. Purim is marked by festive readings from the book of Esther.