MYTH*ING LINKS An Annotated & Illustrated Collection of Worldwide Links to Mythologies, Fairy Tales & Folklore, Sacred Arts & Sacred Traditions by Kathleen Jenks, Ph.D. Lammas, lughnasaDH Author's Note: Lammas comes between August first and second. It is a hot, lazy, delicious time of the year. Bees buzz in the heat of the day, the air is still, and the force of the sun remains strong, even ...

Irish Fire Festivals: Lughnasadh Kym ni Dhoireann (First published in THiNK! Vol. 2, issue 3 Summer/Lughnasadh 1997) Lughnasadh (loo-na-sa) is another holiday name which is often used for practices not originally associated with the Irish meaning. It is often difficult to separate its modern celebration from the Anglo-Saxon Lammas, although these holidays were probably very different in function ...

The Harvest of the Grain by Rita Foust August 1st marks the Celtic holiday of Lughnasadh (pronounced loo-na-sa), which is the beginning of the grain harvest. The importance of grain to life is evident in virtually every deity structure in every religion on Earth. The entire preparation of grain from seed to harvest parallels the life-in-death and death-in-life aspects of the Great Goddess, ...

LUGHNASADH Kathleen Dupree The grain is ripe for harvest. Apple trees and gardens bear forth the fruits of summer. This is the time of Lughnasadh, the ancient Celtic festival held in celebration of the first fruits of the harvest. The modern Irish spelling, L nasa, is the name of the month of August in Irish Gaelic. Lughnasadh, an older spelling, is often used to designate the name of the ...