Important day for the term "Pentecost"

[Bishadi]

Been reading a bit and May 31,2009 is supposed to be an important day in many different points of view.

Any have their own?

I see the meaning as 'the feast'

as well have read of another as the day of 'the law' being given

I am interested in any material of the word or rendition there-of in an egyptian or older frame of theology, culture observance etc....

Here is a Jewish Encyclopedia http://jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=177&letter=P&search=Pentecost

Connection with Harvest.

In Palestine the grain harvest lasted seven weeks and was a season of gladness (Jer. v. 24; Deut. xvi. 9; Isa. ix. 2). It began with the harvesting of the barley (Men. 65-66) during the Passover and ended with the harvesting of the wheat at Pentecost, the wheat being the last cereal to ripen. Pentecost was thus the concluding festival of the grain harvest, just as the eighth day of Tabernacles was the concluding festival of the fruit harvest (comp. Pesiḳ. xxx. 193). According to Ex. xxxiv. 18-26 (comp. ib. xxiii. 10-17), the Feast of Weeks is the second of the three festivals to be celebrated by the altar dance of all males at the sanctuary. They are to bring to the sanctuary "the first-fruits of wheat harvest," "the first-fruits of thy labors which thou hast sown in the field." These are not offerings definitely prescribed for the community; "but with a tribute of a free-will offering of thine hand . . . shalt thou [the individual] rejoice before the Lord thy God, thou and thy son and thy daughter, . . . the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow"