Guy Fawkes Day has always Been the Most Confusing Holiday. It's a celebration of the worst Traitor in the history of England - a Homegrown Terrorist Organization plotted to kill the Protestant king of England by setting the building ablaze parliament in the Gunpowder Plot inFamous.
Yes, the British are Celebrating the Fact That they was captured and the plot squashed. But then Why not call it Guy Fawkes Day Failed? He's also Life, Thanks to Alan Moore's graphic novel, Become a symbol of your authority for the anti-activists and Somewhat of a folk hero. (Perhaps I'm just jealous we do not get the Giant Bonfire celebrations in the United States. Where's our Benedict Arnold Day?)
Regardless, the holiday is a big deal in England, with bonfires, effigies of Guy Fawkes and old Roman candles flaring. It falls every year on Nov.. 5, the anniversary of the Night in 1605 That Fawkes was captured.
The Catholic Fawkes, though, will have "some Hindu and Sikh competition this year. Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, falls on the Same Day. Usually the holiday falls in late October or early November, depending on the position of the moon. It is supposed To Fall is the Darkest Night of the month and is celebrated by the lighting of candles, called the diyas, and setting off fireworks.
Rather Than treachery, though, the holiday celebrates the triumphant return of the Hindu king Ram and his wife Sita Thurs Their kingdom after a 14-year exile. (Of course, Sita Ram subsequently Exiled again a few days later, But That Part Is not celebrated as much.)
The Independent predicts a heightened level of celebrations this year, thanks to the Combination of the two holidays. It is the first time since 1972 the two holidays have coincided.
Here's the famous Guy Fawkes poem as Imagined in the movie remake of Alan Moore's "V for Vendetta"
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