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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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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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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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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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#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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#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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#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 -
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 -
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 -
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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Infinite Orbits acquires UK startup Lunasa to expand satellite servicing capabilities
LONDON – In-orbit services provider Infinite Orbits announced plans March 3 to acquireLondon-based in-orbit servicing and manufacturing startup…
#NewsBeep #News #UnitedKingdom #Europe #GB #GreatBritain #in-orbitservicing #InfiniteOrbits #Lunasa #SN #U.K. #UK
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Infinite Orbits acquires UK startup Lunasa to expand satellite servicing capabilities
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Autumn Repeats
As I mentioned yesterday, it is almost time for the repeat examination period to begin once again. In fact the first papers are due tomorrow (6th August). A couple of years ago, Maynooth University produced this nice good luck message for those resitting so I’ll repeat it here:
I was a bit surprised when I first arrived here in Ireland that the August repeat examinations are called the Autumn Repeats. After all, they happen in August which is generally regarded as summer rather than Autumn. The term is, I think, a relic of the old Celtic calendar in which the start of Autumn coincides with the start of harvesting, the old festival of Lúnasa being when people celebrated the Celtic deity Lugh, who would bring a good harvest or who, if not satisfied, could bring his wrath to bear in storms that would mess everything up. Lúnasa is the name for August in modern Irish; Lá Lúnasa is 1st August, and the first Monday in August (Lá Saoire i mí Lúnasa) (yesterday) is a Bank Holiday.
Anyway, the repeat examinations start tomorrow and go on for ten days or so, I will have four different papers to grade, though I’m expecting only one candidate each for three of them.
Every year at this time I mention the difference between the system of repeats in Maynooth compared to other institutions with which I am familiar, especially in the UK. Elsewhere, students generally take resits when, because they have failed one or more examinations the previous May, they have not accumulated sufficient credits to proceed to the next year of their course. Passing the resit allows them to retrieve lost credit, but their mark is generally capped at a bare pass (usually 40%). That means the student gets the credit they need for their degree but their average (which determines whether they get 1st, 2nd or 3rd class Honours) is affected. This is the case unless a student has extenuating circumstances affecting the earlier examination, such as bad health or family emergency, in which case they take the resit as a `sit’, i.e. for the first time with an uncapped mark.
Here in Maynooth, however, the mark obtained in a repeat examination is usually not capped. Indeed, some students – though not many – elect to take the repeat examination even if they passed earlier in the summer, in order to increase their average mark.
Some people don’t like the idea of uncapped repeats because they feel that it would lead to many students playing games, i.e. deliberately not taking exams in May with the intention of spreading some of their examination load into August. The Institute of Physics has decided to impose capped resits as part of its accreditation requirements. Some people here seem to think IOP accreditation is worth having so we’re being pushed into that requirement. I find it heavy-handed and unhelpful. It is also unimportant unless you want to do postgraduate study in physics in the UK. It doesn’t matter at all anywhere else.
If you think students have an unfair advantage if they don’t take a full diet of examinations in May, then the logical conclusion is that part-time students have an unfair advantage as do students taking micro-credentials consisting of just one or two modules. It’s the essence of the modular system that each module result should be considered on its own merit, not in relation to other modules a student may or may not have taken at the same time. One can of course argue whether the modular system is good or not, but if you have it then you should act consistently in accordance with it. You wouldn’t penalize students who have to work to support their study relative to those who don’t, would you?
And there’s no real evidence of students actually playing the system in the way the IOP thinks they do anyway. For one thing the results from the repeat examination period are not confirmed until early September so that students that deploy this strategy do not know whether they are going to be able to start their course until just a couple of weeks before term. That could cause lots of problems securing accommodation, etc, so it doesn’t seem to me to be a good ploy. Finallists adopting this strategy will not be able to graduate with the rest of their cohort and may miss several months of potential employment. I think most of our students are smart enough to realize that it’s a risky strategy.
Anyway, I’d welcome comments for or against whether resits/repeats should be capped/uncapped and on what practice is adopted in your institution.
#Autumn #InstituteOfPhysics #LáLúnasa #Lúnasa #MaynoothUniversity #RepeatExaminations
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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 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 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 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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Big thanks to @GothicForestTroll and @doorsitlabyrinth.bsky.social for taking our #Darkscene #DJs #Lúnasa Raid Train through the afternoon. Next up is @djfspirit.bsky.social in #FFXIV! Join us! --> twitch.tv/DJFSpirit #Twitch #gothic #TwitchDJ #EBM #synthpop #Eldenwood #Vsky #gaming #dance #party
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Our #Darkscene #DJs #Lúnasa Raid Train has pulled into #Arizona to visit the lovely @shinobigeisha.bsky.social. Hop in! --> twitch.tv/shinobigeisha #tribal #industrial #bonfire #witch #witchy #solstice #Twitch #gothic #goth #TwitchDJ #EBM #synth #dance #music #musicsky #Vtuber #Eldenwood #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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"…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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"…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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"…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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The #museum I #volunteer for got accused of introducing children to #paganism by naming a #summer #festival "#Lunasa" (a gaelic summer festival) by #religious #kooks in our #community (They even made #pamphlets!) Yet they partake in all the pagan #Christmas #traditions...religiously...
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The #museum I #volunteer for got accused of introducing children to #paganism by naming a #summer #festival "#Lunasa" (a gaelic summer festival) by #religious #kooks in our #community (They even made #pamphlets!) Yet they partake in all the pagan #Christmas #traditions...religiously...
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The #museum I #volunteer for got accused of introducing children to #paganism by naming a #summer #festival "#Lunasa" (a gaelic summer festival) by #religious #kooks in our #community (They even made #pamphlets!) Yet they partake in all the pagan #Christmas #traditions...religiously...
