Each religion, family and region of the country celebrates differently.
In keeping with this, her festivals at Naxos present a double character; the one, full of mourning and sadness, represents her death or abandonment by Theseus, the other, full of joy and revelry, celebrates her awakening from sleep and marriage with Dionysus.
As each bard of each bardic family celebrates his favourite god he is apt to make him for the moment the pre-eminent deity of all.
He was forced to retire with the loss of 12,000 men, and a yearly festival in the town still celebrates the occasion.
The chief festival in Bengal - sometimes termed the Christmas of Bengal - celebrates the goddess's birth in the sixth Hindu month (parts of September and October).
