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Happy #Lughnasadh everyone! While not something I harvested, today seems appropriate to share this picture I took with #mosstodon and #mushtodon.
#Lughnasa #Lúnasa #paganism #NeoPaganism #harvest #nature #fungi
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#lunasa #summergathering harvest #festival tonight #universalHall to green this amazing venue and resource to the entire north of #scotland for the next generations!
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Lughnasadh – The Start of Autumn
Today is 1st August, which is marked by the old Celtic festival of Lughnasadh, named after the God Lugh. This coincides with the English Lammas Day, one of many Christian festivals with pagan origins. The word for August in modern Irish is Lúnasa, a name derived from the old Celtic word.
Traditionally 1st August marks the start of the harvest season and is celebrated accordingly, with rites involving the first fruit and bread baked from flour obtained from the first corn. It is also one of the cross-quarter days, lying roughly half-way between the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox (in the Northern Hemisphere).
In the Northern hemisphere, from an astronomical point of view, the solar year is defined by the two solstices (summer, around June 21st and winter, around December 21st) and the equinoxes (Spring, around March 21st, and Autumn, around September 21st). These four events divide the year into four roughly equal parts of about 13 weeks each. If you divide each of these intervals in two you divide the year into eight pieces of six and a bit weeks each. The dates midway between the astronomical events mentioned above are (roughly) :
- 1st February: Imbolc (Candlemas)
- 1st May: Beltane (Mayday)
- 1st August: Lughnasadh (Lammas)
- 1st November: Samhain (All Saints Day)
The names I’ve added are taken from the Celtic/neo-Pagan (and Christian terms) for these cross-quarter days. These timings are rough because the dates of the equinoxes and solstices vary from year to year. Imbolc is often taken to be the 2nd of February (Groundhog Day) and Samhain is sometimes taken to be October 31st, Halloween. But hopefully you get the point. All four of thes days have a Bank Holiday associated with them (on the first Monday after the respective date); this Monday (3rd August) is a Bank Holiday in Ireland.
Some folk in Ireland regard August 1st as the first day of Autumn, just as 1st February is regarded as the first day of Spring and 1st May is the start of Summer. Indeed, our annual cycle of repeat examinations at Maynooth always happens in early to mid-August and these examinations are officially called the Autumn repeats. I rest my case. In my time here I have also noticed that May, June and July do tend to have significantly better weather than August, although I’m pleased to say that the weather isn’t particularly autumnal today.
#Autumn #CrossQuarterDays #Lúnasa #Lugh #Lughnasadh #MaynoothUniversity -
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Our #Darkscene #DJs #Lúnasa Raid Train has been to @graemerz.bsky.social, @DJRecoveryRate, @DJPlaintoastNoJam, @dave-industrie.bsky.social & @Swiftigoth. Thx for DJing the overnight! Join us here! --> twitch.tv/DJ_RacerX #Twitch #gothic #TwitchDJ #EBM #synthpop #Eldenwood #VR #gaming #dance #party
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Our #Darkscene #DJs #Lúnasa Raid Train has entered beautiful #Brazil, where #DJ @kassa_vampiros is spinning witchy, #pagan beats! Join us! --> twitch.tv/kassa_vampiros #tribal #industrial #bonfire #witch #solstice #Twitch #gothic #goth #TwitchDJ #EBM #dance #harvest #party
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The #Darkscene #DJs #Lúnasa Raid Train is now on track! Join us around the virtual bonfire for 30 hrs of #synth #EBM #goth #darkwave #80s & #disco #music to celebrate the start of the #harvest season. Thanks to Machine SVM in beautiful #Argentina for getting us started! --> twitch.tv/MachineSVM
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Okay, so while I was busy designing #raidtrain flyers, the #birds ate all of my black currants. 😅 That means you'd better join us for the Darkscene #DJs #Lúnasa Raid Train on #Twitch from 11 a.m. tomorrow (FRI) through 5 p.m. EDT SAT. Celebrate the start of the #harvest season! #eldenwood #DJ #pagan
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"…So, I had two dogs," a member of the #Lunasa band speaks while introducing the next tune. "I wrote a tune for one dog, and that dog died. I wrote another tune for the other dog, and that dog died too. Then I started writing tunes for people, and guess what?"
Come to think of it, this story holds a precious cultural truth in its depth. The way life, death and friendship are practiced here.
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Going to see #Lúnasa at the Lighthouse Centre in Halifax with @eastcoastcandice tonight! Looking forward to seeing them live, and made sure we had seats on Cillian Vallely and Kevin Crawford’s side of the stage!
