Blessed Be! oh Guardians
Blessed Be! loved ones and friends
Another year's upon us
As the wheel has turned again
We invite the ancestors one by one
In anticipation of the next commercial/retail holiday on the calendar, a bit about the harvest festival Samhaim, the old "Halloween" (All Hallows' Evening). Essentially, this was New Year's Day in Pre-Christian Europe, except for the Romans and those latinized, who celebrated the new year at the same time modern Euro Americans do.
A quaint Samhaim custom in some parts was the Wicker Man. "A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human allegedly used by the ancient Druids for sacrifice by burning..." Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic War).
A quaint Samhaim custom in some parts was the Wicker Man. "A wicker man was a large wicker statue of a human allegedly used by the ancient Druids for sacrifice by burning..." Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico (Commentary on the Gallic War).
The Druids were one of the two religions "persecuted" by Rome. The other being the Christians.The Christians were accused of violating the Roman law of sacrilege, that being the prohibition of criticism of another's religious belief in public. The Druids did not obey the Roman prohibition on human sacrifice.
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