Happy New Year!

[Calamity Jane]

Since Samhain=New Year's Eve for us heathens...

Any resolutions?

 

[RisiaSkye]

No resolutions, but Happy New Harvest to you too, and blessed be.

 

[Azwed]

Well not really pagan even though I find it all very interesting.

I will make a resolution to stop skipping my Geology class. I really should start going to it since I have only been twice once for each test.

 

[Never]

Actually, Samhain is a time after Samradh and Foghamhar but before Geimredh and Earrach. It's a time out of time; the New Year doesn't start until November 2nd. Oh, and Samhain is the name of a god, we don't really know what the Celts originally called this period.

 

[Calamity Jane]

Actually, Samhain is a time after Samradh and Foghamhar but before Geimredh and Earrach. It's a time out of time; the New Year doesn't start until November 2nd.
Oh, and Samhain is the name of a god, we don't really know what the Celts originally called this period.

Technically, being a harvest festival (much like Thanksgiving) there is no hard and fast date for the holiday we call samhain. It would truly vary by locale. Here, our harvest isn't really over until the middle of November, while in other parts of the US, it's damn near winter. In my random observances it is, for all intents and purposes, New Year's Eve.

I've read varying reports on the claim that Samhain was an actual god. Some say that in fact he was, and some that this is a bit of drivel made up a long the way that later was assumed to be fact. *shrug* As for what the Celts called the holiday, they most likely didn't need a name for it. It simply was the festival of the last harvest. Everyone knew when that was in relation to their locality.

All that said... do you have resolutions for the 2nd of Nov?

 

[Never]

As a wrestling non-pagan lesbain doctor who serves the Queen of Smut and Cum I am perfect and need no resolutions.