It seems only right, insert a brief overview about the holidays, different from other canonical Christian and remember: those Celtic.
the Celtic calendar is a complex example of luni- solar, suitable for everyday use both for liturgical use.
Membership to Nature: you will find that the annual cycle of the Celts and all the native traditions (Native American, Native American, Australian, etc..) is marked with celebrations and rituals appropriate to the season you are going through, harmonizing well with the Great Cycle of Life has always been present in nature.
Dark Half and Half Chiara
The Celtic calendar is divided into two halves: a "winter", linked at the beginning of the dark half of the year, and the other "summer", linked at the beginning of Mid Clare. Even the Celtic month started with ATENOUX, The Dark Half, which represents the Renewal. For the ancient Celts, the day began at sunset, that's why there is always marked the celebrations "on horseback" in two days.
The four major Celtic holidays
The Celts celebrated four major annual festivities related to the cycles of nature and its seasons: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh. They were also called "Feast of Fire" because these events took place in the lighting of a fire druid ritual. Significant traces of these ancient celebrations are found in popular culture and country and all over Europe celebrated in various forms today.
Halloween - Samhain
Today, Halloween, known only as a playful and commercial ancient sacred holiday: Samhain (from sam-Fuin = end of summer). For the Celts this festival marked the Celtic New Year, an important moment of transition in pastoral and agricultural calendar, linked to the cycle of seasons. Just at this time of year the earth has yielded its fruits and is preparing to winter: the Celtic rituals included the Harvest and spiritual preparation for the next cycle (seeding). At Samhain the doors were opened between the Kingdom of the here el'Altromondo, a "beyond" the land of magic, the divine and the residence of the deceased. On the second night of Samhain the Celtic tradition fell barriers: the living and the dead could pass from other of the two Regni.Dalla Celtic draw many rites and customs of folklore now dedicated to Saints and to our dead. Halloween in fact takes its name from "All Hallows' Eve" (on the eve, eve = eve), and is celebrated on the night of October 31 and November 1. On this occasion we prepare for the Christian feast of All Saints' Day, which falls on 1 November, and the day dedicated to the Dead on November 2.
Imbolc
We know that the Celtic year was divided into two halves and the two "doors" of nature (represented by Samhain and Beltane), respectively, introduced to the dark side and part of the year light. Imbolc, which traditionally is celebrated on the night of 31 January and 1 February, marks the split time between dark and light, is one of the four main festivals of the Celts and the ritual celebration of the arrival of the cold primavera.La choice and frozen in February as the start of spring can be explained by the most profound spiritual concepts of the ancient Celts, for whom everything began and the darkness was thrown in the most intimate and hidden deep in the belly of the Goddess. The vital spirit of spring comes on it in secret while the winter, with its blanket of cold and snow still covers the land. There is a saying - "bread under the snow, hunger in the rain '- which best exemplifies the state of the nature of motherhood in this period: the seeds are ground to germinate, the rain because of the frost could undermine or destroy them, but the blanket of snow covered by their own acts and protects children, who slowly begin to rise in the womb of Mother Earth. As in the earth, the human spirit produced the current life and hope and we are preparing to welcome the awakening of nature.
Beltane
Some people call it Beltane, or Beltaine who Bealtaine, Eastern Europe is called Beltine. Known as the May Day folklore, the pagans also call Walpurga or, in Anglophone countries, May Day (May Day). Some people celebrate the night of April 30 and May 1, this is because the Celts greeted the new day from the setting sun. For the most common and widespread popular tradition on the day of 1 May is the fateful date.
The time of the end of winter: For the Celtic Beltane marked the time of the end of winter and the beginning of the bright half of the year, and was the largest festival dedicated to the fertility rites of propitiation and future crops. In ancient Beltane went out to all fires inside the houses, was preparing a large bonfire ritual and its flame is rekindled the domestic fires. Was, that the sacred fire of Bel or Belenos, an important Celtic god with attributes that are associated with Apollo Solar classic - "beautiful" means "bright" and brings the same root Belisama, the Sublime Goddess "very bright". We find him in Gaul, in Britain and Ireland, also includes the names of Beli and Bile - in Gaelic it means "great holy tree" and the folk tradition, especially for the occasion, stands adorned with the May Pole strips of colored cloth.
Lughnasad Festival: The Festival of Wheat
With Celtic festivals today are learning to regain the magical dimension of time, as it was lived in ancient pagan rituals, finding our spiritual roots and understand our distant myths, symbols, traditions, legends, holidays in relation to some key moments of transition year. In August marks the feast Celtic and pagan Lughnasad, a feast of thanksgiving for the harvest which is also called "Feast of Wheat." Lughnasad "(which are also written as" Lughnasadh "or" Lughnasa, "and in modern Irish" Lúnasa, "the name Gaelic for the month of August) is a holiday that celebrates the tradition approximately August 1. This is the time of harvest cereals for the Celtic countries of Northern Europe, where the maturation occurred later. Lughnasad was one of the four main festivals of the Celtic religion, the last big holiday of the calendar and its name means "meeting or commemoration of Lugh." According to tradition dedicated to Lugh, the sun god of Celtic mythology. Lugh is called with the attributes of Lamfada honorific, "from the Long Arm" (a representation of the solar radius) and Samildánach, "from many arts." Revered as proficient in all art known of which is divine inspiration, in this particular feast was celebrated as a distributor of wealth. For these ancient peoples were rich food for all, the "daily bread".
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