Northern Hemisphere: August 1 – Southern Hemisphere: February 2
Known as Lughnasadh, August Eve* and First Harvest Festival, Sabbat Lammas is the Harvest Festival. In this Sabbath (which marks the beginning of the harvest season and is dedicated to bread), the Witches thank the gods for the harvest with various offerings to the deities to ensure the continued fertility of the earth, and honor the fertility aspect of the sacred union of the Goddess and God.
Lughnasadh is celebrated on February 1 (Feabhra). “La Lúasa” is one of the four Celtic Festivals of Fire and, basically, an agricultural ritual of thanksgiving, where the first of the three harvest festivals dedicated to God Lugh is celebrated, its name means “Light” – beautiful as the Sun. The God of blacksmiths and many skills. The Northern Hemisphere is celebrated on August 1.
It is an ideal time to thank our crops, whether they are good or not, for we know that in evolution everything is necessary for spiritual growth. Lugh's feast marks the harvest time, where offerings are made in order to protect them, in addition to marriages whose agreement lasted a year and a day, and can be renewed every year.
Lughnasadh literally means “Games of Lugh”, this is due to the ancient Celtic custom of promoting tribal meetings, fairs and competitions sports, called “Oenach”, when the clans gathered in peace, to honor the sovereignty of the land and resolve legal issues.
Lammas was originally celebrated by the ancient druid priests as the Lughnasadh festival. On this sacred day, they performed rituals of protection and honored Lugh, the Celtic god of the sun. In falhar, Lammas was celebrated as the festival of grain and the day to worship the death of the Holy King.
The making of corn dolls (small figures made with braided straw) is an ancient pagan custom performed by many Modern witches as part of the Sabbath Lammas rite.
The dolls (or harvest babies, as they are sometimes called) are placed on the altar of the Sabbath to symbolize the Mother Goddess of the harvest. it is customary, in each Lammas, to make (or buy) a new corn doll and burn the previous one (last year) for good luck.
During this festival we also honor Lugh's adoptive mother, Taltiu, who died after the great effort she made to clear the central plain of Ireland, preparing the land for cultivation, metaphor for the sacrifice that the Great Mother makes every year, so that the harvest cycle may be perpetuated.
Ancient amulets and ta Cancelaresmans should be burned in this ritual, where we symbolically rid ourselves of all that is old and worn out, for life becomes death and death becomes life, the cycle of creation.
Even if you do not plant or reap our food anymore, remember that everything was sown and produced in the fields of Mother Earth. So always thank the gods for the abundance and abundance of our lives. In this festival, adorn your altar with seeds, wheat branches, corn ears and fruits of the time.
In this ritual, the first sip of wine and the first piece of bread should be thrown into the cauldron, along with papers, where your thanks will be written.
The traditional pagan foods of the Sabbath Lammas arelógicos bread (wheat, oats and especially corn), barley cakes, nuts, wild cherries, apples, rice, roasted lamb, cherry pies, elderberry wine, beer and elm tea.
Suggestion for ritual:
Suggestion to celebrate Lughnasadh
Celtic Divinities: Lugh, the brilliant!
Correspondence:
– Correlation: the cycle of harvests and Christian thanksgiving.
– Symbols: red, yellow and orange, cereal bread and metal spear.
– Incenses: chamomile, sandalwood or rosemary, aloe and rose.
– Food: red wine or fruit juice, beer, bread, cakes and corn. Obs: corn is a characteristic food of the Americas that has historically not been used by the Celts.
– Candle colours: orange and yellow.
– Sacred precious stones: aventurine, citrus, peridote and sardonia.
– Traditional ritualistic herbs: flowers of acacia, aloe, corn stalk, cyclame, Greek hay, oliban, heather, mauve pink, myrtle, oak leaves, sunflower and wheat.
The First Harvest
Blessed be the holy water
Who cleanses the soul and the heart,
Under the moon of this blessed harvest.
Ancient shadows braid their roots through the earth
And they offer their first grains
To the Great Mother next concentrações spring.
Guided by Lugh's spear, the brilliant,
Sufferings are banned
Somewhere far away.
Spinning through the spirals of legend and myth,
♪ We walk through daylight ♪
Towards the stars of the night in infinite space6,2%.
Thanking us for the bread that is offered
On this altar of beams and grain,
I build that darling bond.
To the noble who walks with prazeres
For the sweetness of this endless cycle,
Love that unites true union.
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[Omnia-Lughnasadh]
Hiu Noshàh
The hí Lúghnasadh
Feed the flames and set them dancing
Hail the Sun and Hail to Life
Feed the flames and set them dancing
Hail the Sun and Hail to Life
Spear of fire
Burn so brightly
As the sunndexaçãoeel in the sky
Spear of fire
Burn within me
It's no good.
The Lúghnasadh
Lughnasadh
Sabbath Lamma Ritual
Start by marking a circle about three meters in diameter. Raise an altar in the center of the circle, facing north. On it, put a candle the proper color of Sabbat.
To the left (west) of the candle, place a cup with water (preferably fresh rain water or water from a mountain fountain) and a fireproof tray or dish containing a new corn doll and one from the previous year's Sabbat Lammas. To the right (east of the candle), place a censor with sandalwood or pink incense, and a dish with salt, dust or sand to represent the Earth element. Before the candle (south) place a consecrated dagger and a consecrated ceremonial sword.
Salp a little salt to consecrate the circle and then, starting from the east, trace the circle with the tip of the ceremonial sword, moving it in a destructive way, while saying:
WITH THE marinhoSAL AND THE HOLY HOLD I CONSAGUE AND INVOLVE YOU,
OH MAGIA CYRCLE AND SABBATH LIGHT.
UNDER THE HOLY NAME OF GOD AND UNDER HIS PROTECTION
NOW START THIS RITUAL OF SABBATH.
Put the ceremonial sword back on the altar. Light the candle and say:
IN THIS CONSAGRATED CYRCLE OF SABBATH I CONJURY YOU NOW,
OHnding SPIRITS SARIRED FROM THE ANTIGO ANDnhei THE MIS Stre ELEMENT
Fogo, light the incense and say:
IN THIS CONSAGRATED CYRCLE OF SABBATH I CONJURY YOU NOW,
OH SPIRITS SAUGHT FROM THE ANTIGO AND MISTIC AIR ELEMENT.
Hold the dagger in the right hand and, with the tip of the blade, draw a pentacle (five-pointed star) in the salt, dust or sand and say:
IN THIS CONSAGRATED CYRCLE OF SABBATH I CONJURY YOU NOW,
duzido OH SPIRITS SAUGHT FROM THE ANTIGO AND MYSTIC ELEMENT ELEMENTS.
Dip the blade of the dagger in the cup with water and say:
IN THIS CONSAGRATED CYRCLE OF SABBATH I CONJURY YOU NOW,
OH SPIRITS SAGRATED FROM THE ANTIGO AND MISTICAL WATER ELEMENT.
Put the dagger back on the altar. Take the new corn doll and put it to the right of the candle, and say:
OH, MISS OF THE COLLECTION, I THANK YOU FOR SUSTAINING US IN THE NEXT STATIONS AND GENEROSITY OF THIS COLLECTED. So be it.
Take the old corn doll and burn it in the candle flame. Put it on the fireproof tray or plate. As it burns, recite the following magical verse of Sabbath:
Lady of the Past, burn me now.
TO GOD YOU SHOULD GO BACK.
ABOVE ME WITH SOURCE
AND GOD'S LOVE AND GOD'S FACE.
SO BE IT!
End the ritual by distancing the elemental spirits, erasing the candle and undoing the circle in motion with the ceremonial sword. Bury the ashes of the old corn doll, as an offering to Mother Earth, and save the new doll for the next Sabbat Lammas.
Source: Wicca – A Feitiçaria Moderna, de Gerina Dunwich