All human societies draw lines between disconnected events in their history and create illusions of continuity or topographies of the past. These traditions of remembering, which began in the Hebrew Bible, played an important part in the renewal of the Jewish festival calendar in the Yishuv. Festivals do this very well because their repetition year after year allows societies to emphasize historical connections and revise their stories of origin by creating unique emotional maps. The Zionist festival calendar did it especially well by revising old Jewish festivals and by inventing completely new ones as part of an updated program that emphasized the ancient Jewish agricultural past and the ancient Jewish military past, all in the spirit of Hebrew nationalism.