Pumpkin lantern - tealight holder - painted, ceramic

Harvest festival - Autumn sacrificial festival - Equinox.

For the Germanic tribes, the harvest festival lasted three days from September 21-23. They held a great feast and drank mead. The gods were thanked for the harvest during this time. They left a bundle of grain in the field so that Odin's horse, Sleipnir, would also have something to eat. A wreath was braided from the last of the grain harvest. It was also customary to leave the last apple on the tree as an offering.

Sometimes a harvest fire was lit for this purpose, and sometimes it was the custom to throw a small fruit offering, grain, and other sheaves into the fire.

 

Samhain (so-called Halloween) is one of the four major Irish-Celtic festivals and takes place on the night of October 31st to November 1st. It is a festival of the dead, where ancestors are remembered. During this time, it was believed that the souls of the dead returned to their homes. The festival also celebrated the end of summer and the bringing of livestock into the stables.

 

Customs and traditions sometimes differ or overlap in different cultures. Samhain and the autumn sacrificial festival are of pagan origin, sometimes persecuted by the Christian church, reinterpreted, or used/misused for their own purposes.

 

It is up to us to cultivate the old customs in their original tradition again....

 

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