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Merry meet and a merry Lammas Day to all! We toast the Sun God as He beings the end of His life. The Goddess is pregnant with the new Sun God but She is sad because Her lover is dying. We celebrate the first harvest of grain, the Goddess will produce no more for the rest of the year, the second harvest will be celebrated in September at the feast of Mabon.
So drink a toast to the dying Sun God and thank Him for warming the Earth and helping life to flourish.
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Happy Lammas Day!
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Posted 01 August 2008 - 08:08 PM
You too Innanna ^^
You need a slap in the head now.. you really do.. O.o
Lammas = a holiday/sabbat..
Llama = an animal
*shakes fist at WilV*
WilV, on Aug 2 2008, 01:48 AM, said:
It's spelt Llama!
You need a slap in the head now.. you really do.. O.o
Lammas = a holiday/sabbat..
Llama = an animal
*shakes fist at WilV*
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Posted 31 July 2009 - 02:03 PM
I want to know more about this.
This is what I know so far from Creature_Feature(thank you!!):
Lammas is a celebration of the harvest. It's tradition to celebrate by making whole wheat bread and offering some of it to the wee folk (the faeries) to make them happy and so that they will help you out throughout the year.
I think that sounds just lovely. I was told by others when I asked today (Raz and Readman, I think) to leave the bread offering under trees.
This is what I know so far from Creature_Feature(thank you!!):
Lammas is a celebration of the harvest. It's tradition to celebrate by making whole wheat bread and offering some of it to the wee folk (the faeries) to make them happy and so that they will help you out throughout the year.
I think that sounds just lovely. I was told by others when I asked today (Raz and Readman, I think) to leave the bread offering under trees.
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Posted 31 July 2009 - 03:25 PM
I found some more information, surfing around the internet.
Here is this whole About.com article about it. And here is another website I found with information about it.
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Here is this whole About.com article about it. And here is another website I found with information about it.
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Lammas is the first of three harvest Sabbats, and celebrates the crops of late summer and early autumn.
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It's become a custom to give people the gift of a pair of gloves at Lammastide.
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Bake a loaf of bread on Lammas. If you've never made bread before, this is a good time to start. Honor the source of the flour as you work with it: remember it was once a plant growing on the mother Earth. If you have a garden, add something you've harvested--herbs or onion or corn--to your bread. If you don't feel up to making wheat bread, make corn bread. Or gingerbread people. Or popcorn. What's most important is intention. All that is necessary to enter sacred time is an awareness of the meaning of your actions.
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Regrets: Think of the things you meant to do this summer or this year that are not coming to fruition. You can project your regrets onto natural objects like pine cones and throw them into the fire, releasing them. Or you can write them on dried corn husks (as suggested by Nancy Brady Cunningham in Feeding the Spirit) or on a piece of paper and burn them.
Farewells: What is passing from your life? What is over? Say good-bye to it. As with regrets, you can find visual symbols and throw them into the fire, the lake or the ocean. You can also bury them in the ground, perhaps in the form of bulbs which will manifest in a new form in spring.
Harvest: What have you harvested this year? What seeds have your planted that are sprouting? Find a visual way to represent these, perhaps creating a decoration in your house or altar which represents the harvest to you. Or you could make a corn dolly or learn to weave wheat. Look for classes in your area which can teach you how to weave wheat into wall pieces, which were made by early grain farmers as a resting place for the harvest spirits.
Preserves: This is also a good time for making preserves, either literally or symbolically. As you turn the summer's fruit into jams, jellies and chutneys for winter, think about the fruits that you have gathered this year and how you can hold onto them. How can you keep them sweet in the store of your memory?
Farewells: What is passing from your life? What is over? Say good-bye to it. As with regrets, you can find visual symbols and throw them into the fire, the lake or the ocean. You can also bury them in the ground, perhaps in the form of bulbs which will manifest in a new form in spring.
Harvest: What have you harvested this year? What seeds have your planted that are sprouting? Find a visual way to represent these, perhaps creating a decoration in your house or altar which represents the harvest to you. Or you could make a corn dolly or learn to weave wheat. Look for classes in your area which can teach you how to weave wheat into wall pieces, which were made by early grain farmers as a resting place for the harvest spirits.
Preserves: This is also a good time for making preserves, either literally or symbolically. As you turn the summer's fruit into jams, jellies and chutneys for winter, think about the fruits that you have gathered this year and how you can hold onto them. How can you keep them sweet in the store of your memory?
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Other Symbols of Lammas (Lughnasadh)
- Grapes and wine
- Corn dolls
- Ears of corn
- Iron, such as tools or weaponry or armor
- Fall flowers, such as cornflowers or poppies
- Straw braids
- Onion garlands
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Sheafs of grain, fresh picked fruits and vegetables, a jar of honey, or loaves of bread are perfect for the Lammastide altar.
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