Pagan Portals - Sumer Is Icumen In - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Portals - Sumer Is Icumen In write by Melusine Draco. This book was released on 2022-04-29. Pagan Portals - Sumer Is Icumen In available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Sumer is Icumen In we discover new and exciting ways of surviving (and enjoying) the truly pagan excesses of the Midsummer Festival. Here we can establish and instigate a new smorgasbord of traditions of our own for the purpose of celebration and observance and, in time, even though we must never lose sight of our authentic history, they may even be integrated into future pagan revels.
Pagan Portals - Harvest Home: In-Gathering
Pagan Portals - Harvest Home: In-Gathering - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Portals - Harvest Home: In-Gathering write by Melusine Draco. This book was released on 2022-08-26. Pagan Portals - Harvest Home: In-Gathering available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the good old days, the harvest festivals began in August (Lunasa - ‘beginning of harvest’) followed by September (Meán Fómhair) and October (Deireadh Fómhair) - translated as ‘middle of harvest’ and ‘end of harvest’ respectively. Harvest was one of the most sacred times of the pagan year and the Harvest Home or ‘in-gathering’ was a community observance at the end of the harvest to celebrate and give thanks for the bounty. Celebrating the harvest is still the holiest time of the Craft year and Lammas celebrates the coming of harvest-tide with its decoration of corn sheaves, fancy loaves, berries and fruits - all leading up to the Autumnal Equinox (or Michaelmas) that marked its zenith with the eating of the traditional goose and the raucous festivities of the community harvest suppers and country fairs.
Pagan Portals - Breath of Spring
Pagan Portals - Breath of Spring - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Portals - Breath of Spring write by Melusine Draco. This book was released on 2023-01-27. Pagan Portals - Breath of Spring available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Candlemas/Imbolc is the re-awakening of the Old Lass within Old Craft belief and also coincides with the Roman Candelaria and Fornicalia - a spring corn festival celebrated in honour of Fornax, goddess of ovens, and observed by each ward of the city. All this merging of primitive origins and rites, belonging to the European pre-urban agricultural culture, meant that it also commemorated the search for Persephone by her mother and the festival of candles symbolizing the return of the Light. So it continued to be performed until the Christian era, when it was transformed into Candalmas in AD494. In pre-Christian times, Imbolc observance began the night before 1st February, and celebrants prepared for a visit from Brigid into their homes by crafting an effigy of the goddess from bundles of oats and rushes. The clothed effigy was placed in a basket overnight, and the day was celebrated by burning lamps and lighting bonfires in tribute to her. Traditions from both the pagan celebration and the Christian observance of St. Brigid's Day can be found in the modern Imbolc festivities - while celebrants sometimes make a Brigid's Cross out of reeds, as well as a Brigid corn doll or effigy.
Pagan Portals - Rounding the Wheel of the Year
Pagan Portals - Rounding the Wheel of the Year - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pagan Portals - Rounding the Wheel of the Year write by Lucya Starza. This book was released on 2023-10-27. Pagan Portals - Rounding the Wheel of the Year available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every month is full of magic, each day has its own energy, and the seasons rotate as part of the cycles of nature. Pagan Portals - Rounding the Wheel of the Year looks at ways to honour each month with folkloric customs, herb and plant lore, traditional crafts, spells, visualisations, and pagan rites that go beyond the eight festivals of Imbolc, Spring Equinox, Beltane, Summer Solstice, Lammas, Autumn Equinox, Samhain, and Winter Solstice. The wheel of the year turns smoothly, it doesn't bump over eight cogs, and that's the meaning of the title of this book. Inside these pages you will find the history behind some much-loved folklore and modern pagan customs, as well as practical suggestions for ways to celebrate the turning of the year.
Sumer is Icumen in
Sumer is Icumen in - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sumer is Icumen in write by Margaret Lock. This book was released on 2000. Sumer is Icumen in available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
