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Happy Lughs Feast Day! Known to the Celts as Lugnasadh or the Christian version of Lammas. The Reaping time.

What have you sowed since the last Lugnasadh/Lammas? What will you reap?

Renewal through spreading ash in your gardens, potted plants or on the side of the road in the grasses to nourish and replenish the lands is common to celebrants of this season.

August 1st has arrived!

Happy Mid Summer Harvest! 🧑🏻‍🌾🌾🌽🍞🥕

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Ceremony info for August 1st honoring the Celtic god, Lugh. This celebration of Lugh is referred to as Lughnasad (pronounced Loo-NAS-ah).

Lugh is the god of craftsmanship; he is skilled in many things, including blacksmithing, wheel making, and fighting. There is some discrepancy as to why Lugh is honored on this day. Some tales say that this is the date of Lugh’s wedding feast. Other stories say it is because he held a harvest fair in honor of his foster mother, Tailtiu, on this date.

What to do?
Modern day Interpreters bake breads and cakes to celebrate the historical grain harvest (and subsequent bread making).

Some observers celebrate with a harvest ceremony. This ceremony typically involves decorating an altar with symbols of the season. Some of these symbols include scythes (because they are used to cut the grain), corn, grapes, apples, and/or any other crops that might be harvested at this time.

Honoring ceremonies involve speaking words of gratitude which symbolize thanks to the earth for the harvest. After honoring, everyone breaks bread and may drink wine of light colors.

What to create?
To honor Lugh, people make crafts and decorations for their house, to represent his skills in those areas. Create an arrow, hang a horseshoe, or weave a wheat design of strength. Scarecrows representative of the protected harvest of the fields are created in all sizes to protect plants and crops and are burned as the sun heads to sunset.
Playing games of mental and physical challenge are particularly

What to eat!
And as usual, there is feasting!
This feast usually is prepared with one’s harvested crops at this time (if they have their own garden) or chosen from farmers markets or regular grocery stores.

In the end, the sacrifice of the Scarecrow representing the Corn King meets the fire and the ashes from this are spread over the lands to nourish the next year's crops. The "Corn King" is described as a dying and rising fertility god who personifies cereal crops. These deities undergo cycles of death and rebirth mirroring the agricultural harvest.

'The god "dies" when grain is harvested or buried and is "reborn" when new crops sprout in the spring." Cycles continue. Be grateful.

Happy Lughnasadh, Lammas!