summer
Any suggestions?
Tuesday, 07Aug2007 Filed in: practicals⭐︎ rite & ritual
Encyclopædia Brittanica gets it wrong
Not once, but twice.
I've been working on version 3 of my lexicon. It's steady work, and helps calm me. I don't write all the definitions, I take clips if I can find well written ones.
So I was looking at Brittanica's Quarter Day page, which actually refers to the Lammas page.
The second mistake is about May Day, and I am pretty sure it's a translation error and misunderstanding about agriculture. I'll just quote my own note here.
I've been working on version 3 of my lexicon. It's steady work, and helps calm me. I don't write all the definitions, I take clips if I can find well written ones.
So I was looking at Brittanica's Quarter Day page, which actually refers to the Lammas page.
““The Quarter Days—Candlemas (February 2), May Day (May 1), Lammas, and All Saints’ Day (November 1)—marked the four quarters of the calendar as observed in the British Isles and elsewhere in northern Europe. ””Every single reference I've ever seen from Valiente forward calls these the cross quarter days, they mark the transitions between the season. The actual quarter days are the solstices and the equinoxes. It helps if you visualize the year as a wheel.
— Encyclopædia Brittanica, Lammas
The second mistake is about May Day, and I am pretty sure it's a translation error and misunderstanding about agriculture. I'll just quote my own note here.
❝Enclyclopædia Britannica has it wrong here, it's a very common mistake. In some European countries especially further north, there were two seasons, winter and summer. May Day traditionally marks the beginning of the growing season, not the beginning of spring. If the summer solstice is midsummer, that makes May Day the beginning of summer.❞I doubt that anyone except a calendar geek or a pagan would have caught it. But when you're both at once, you have to tell people.— NeoWayland, May Day
Growing season
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Special harvest
“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”— George Carlin
Summer fairy
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Penetration into the darkness
❝As a rule, absolutes don't.❞— NeoWayland, as a rule, absolutes don’t
Heroic
Thursday, 11May2017 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
“However heroic the virtues of the saint may be, the scoundrel has a bit of the hero in him too.”— Richard Smoley from “Choose Your Saints Wisely”, Gnosis № 24, Summer 1992
Gateway to summer
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Tuesday, 23Jun2015 Filed in: quotes & thinkums
In which I indulge my Southern ancestors
You shouldn’t listen to the folks in the weird clothes and making the loudest noises.
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"all of that sunshine,
all of that sweet golden sunshine,
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