Hallowe’en: Celtic New Year
Hinge of the Season looming… the essence behind Celtic New Year, our Hallowe’en
Ghouls and ghosties are the order of the night for Hallowe’en. Trick or treating, visiting neighbours – to leave a dare or receive a treasure – has become not just an American ritual, but one which has caught on in the Western World.
How many of our children know the origins of the celebration which fills their imaginations with scary images until they shake with glee or cry for consolation?
2000 years ago the Celtic year began at Samhain. And as the Celts calculated in moons, their ‘new year’ night was celebrated during the moon of 31 October – 1 November: what is now known worldwide as Hallowe’en. For all Celtic peoples – contemporary with the height of Roman civilization – Samhain was a time of deliberate misrule and contrariness, rather like the Roman Saturnalia which was celebrated at winter solstice, or if calculated in the Julian calendar, beginning…
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October 25, 2013 Posted by siderealview | Uncategorized | 1 Comment
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