| A | B |
|---|
| Hannukah | lasts 8 days |
| Advent | Christmas is coming |
| Diwali | Hindu festival of light |
| The Dream ancestors | Aboriginal Creation story |
| Evolution | Humanist version of Creation |
| Noah's Flood | Christian story of re-creation |
| Hannuman | Monkey God in Hinduism |
| Aaron | brother of Moses |
| Rameses and Menephtah | Pharoahs |
| Death of the Firstborn | The tenth plague |
| The Red Sea | God parted the water for Moses |
| Mattathias | Jewish priest with strong principles |
| Judah | leader of the Maccabees |
| 24 days | length of Advent |
| Mass | Holy Communion |
| pork, prawns, milk+meat | not kosher |
| Friday- Saturday evening | Shabbath |
| Havdallah candle | To end Shabbath |
| Challah | bread eaten at Shabbath |
| Seder | the plate of symbolic Passover food |
| Charoset | nut and apple paste eaten at Passover |
| salt water | represents the tears at Passover |
| Israelites | slaves of the ancient Egyptians |
| Dreidel | children's game played at Hannukah |
| Latke cakes | Hannukah food |
| Holocaust | Nazis killed Jews in WW2 |
| Menorah | six branched candlestick |
| Hannukiah | eight branched candlestick |
| Chrstingle | festival for childrn near Christmas |
| Orange | fruit used at Christingle |
| commercialism | replacing religion at Christmas |
| Joseph | husband of Mary |
| Herod | evil king of Israel |
| Shepherds | first visitors to baby Jesus |
| Frankincense | a gift to Jesus from a wise man |
| Holly | evergreen symbol at Christmas |
| John the Baptist | cousin of Jesus |
| Hajj | fifth pillar of Islam |
| Ramadan | the month of Fasting - Islam |
| Shahadah | the Islamic statment of Faith |
