Words and pictures from the author of And the Crows Took Their Eyes as well as the Elizabeth Goodweather Appalachian Mysteries . . .
Monday, August 1, 2022
Rabbit, Rabbit
Lughnasadh is a Gaelic/Celtic early harvest festival, celebrated on August 1-- more or less halfway between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox. The Catholic Church renamed the holiday Lammastide.
Happy Lammas...Lughnasadh is so hard for me to spell! We had a little circle to celebrate outside the church yesterday, just a few women talking and sharing some folk songs to welcome the harvest. And breaking bread. We call ourselves Inanna's daughters...descendants of those women who baked bread and worshiped Inanna.
I had to laugh at the Celtic warrior carrying a shield and a spear, but with his body unclothed and exposed from the waist up. Plus the legs exposed below the kilt!
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Happy Lammas...Lughnasadh is so hard for me to spell! We had a little circle to celebrate outside the church yesterday, just a few women talking and sharing some folk songs to welcome the harvest. And breaking bread. We call ourselves Inanna's daughters...descendants of those women who baked bread and worshiped Inanna.
I had to laugh at the Celtic warrior carrying a shield and a spear, but with his body unclothed and exposed from the waist up. Plus the legs exposed below the kilt!
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