Lammas (tradition, funeral, beliefs, pagans, God)

[finalfrogo]

My calendar labels August 1st (my birthday! ) as "Lammas" for Pagans and Wiccans. What is this holiday, and do you participate in it?

[Mike182]

i shamelessly stole this from Fluffy

This, the third major sabbat in the Wiccan calendar, is founded upon 2 seperate festivals and hence has 2 different names.

The first, Lughnasadh, literally means "The funeral games of Lugh (a Celtic/Irish Sun god)" and gives the festival many of its pre-Christian themes such as the Sun god growing old as the sun shrinks from the sky.

The second, Lammas, was an imported Anglo-Saxon tradition which was intended to celebrate the first harvest of the year. It is sometimes known as the Gule of August which means the feast of August.

Therefore, in modern Wicca, Lughnasadh represents an ambivalent set of feelings as on the one hand a Wiccan is apprehensive about the god's slow descent from a seat of power whilst praiseful of the harvest giving them life amist death. It is truly, a symbol of the cycle of life.

http://www.religiousforums.com/forum...=2005-8-1&c=14

[Draka]

Refer to my thread entitled "Lughnasadh" in the Wicca sub-forum. Lammas is just another name for the same holiday. Lammas is "loafmass" while Lughnasadh is Celtic naming after the God Lugh. They are inherently the same though. Every culture celebrates the holiday differently. My writing is reflective of Celtic beliefs.

[lunamoth]

Ooops, sorry. I thought this thread was about llamas...