Festival

"I despise your religious festivals;"

"The were primarily an agricultural people. After men cleared the fields surrounding the village, women would cultivate . Wild nuts and berries gathered by the women, along with fish and game brought home by the men, rounded out Iroquois meals. Various yearly celebrations such as the , were linked to the production of crops."

"“The multitude of your sacrifices—"

"After the persecution of the Emperor , Gregory Bishop of in Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs)."