I think I have posted this before. But what, if anything, is anyone doing on these boards for Lammas Day? It is today, in case you don’t know. August 1, 2018.
First, a little background. It is the blessing of the first fruits. It is also roughly equidistant between the Summer Solstice and the Autumnal Equinox. I think I first heard about it in a book of neopagan Wicca, if not before. It is one of the eight “cross-quarter” days, Cecil Adams talks about (although I have never been able to find the column in which he says that [little help:)?]).
And FWIW, Google at least, thinks it’s a big deal.
What do the rest of you think? And while we’re at it, does anyone here celebrate it? It is a Christian festival (“Lammas” is actual a corruption of “Loaf-mass”–get it?).
I had the day off work so I celebrated the cross-quarter day of Lughnasadh (that’s the Celtic Pagan word) largely by goofing off.
And having lunch with the local Jewish Federation, who are not only completely unaware of it being Lammas, but wouldn’t care if they did. Ditto for Lughnasadh.
Yep, I’m not only a mutt by descent but also in religion.
I celebrated Lughnasadh after work by walking around a park and thinking about the past three months. Then I got an ice cream off the truck and sat in the park and ate it.
