Ludi Megalenses can be compared with feasts celebrating spring and resurrection of nature, feasts, the older cultures celebrated with practices we even today use at easter, f.e. easter bunny and easter eggs.
In different cultures people welcome spring with a celebration sometimes in combination with New Year, Some examples: Nowruz, marking the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
In several European regions Spring Festivals are reveled in the middle of April, e.g.Stuttgart Spring Festival, a folk festival to celebrate that winter is over and the world starts flowering again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_Spring_Festival
Ludi Megalenses can be compared with feasts celebrating spring and resurrection of nature, feasts, the older cultures celebrated with practices we even today use at easter, f.e. easter bunny and easter eggs.
In different cultures people welcome spring with a celebration sometimes in combination with New Year,
Some examples:
Nowruz, marking the first day of spring and the beginning of the year in Iranian calendar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowruz
Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
In several European regions Spring Festivals are reveled in the middle of April, e.g.Stuttgart Spring Festival, a folk festival to celebrate that winter is over and the world starts flowering again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttgart_Spring_Festival
Different flower parades in France, Netherlands and Belgium:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemencorso
The FRENCH SPRING FESTIVAL. in Kiev with many cultural events and in the end am organizing fireworks on the water
http://de.dreamstime.com/stockfoto-french-spring-festival–image13599400