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Branwen B
Branwen Nov 6, 2009 22:57:16
Replying to nigelswift

The thing I always notice is how modern customs still revolve around the same themes as before. Samhain was a Festival of the Ancestors, and we have Remembrence Day on the closest Sunday at this time. Mothers Day (in the UK) is closest Sunday to the Spring Equinox with its connections to fertility and conception. Father's Day is closest Sunday to Midsummer and the Festival of the All Father, and all the manly connections that has which are still celebrated at Highland Games; with races, competitions and sports (tossing the caber, pallic or what?). First harvest festivals and last harvest festivals are all the same, and the Child of Light at Winter Solstice is the same in most religions.

T tjj
tjj Nov 6, 2009 23:17:05
Replying to Branwen

Branwen wrote:
The thing I always notice is how modern customs still revolve around the same themes as before. Samhain was a Festival of the Ancestors, and we have Remembrence Day on the closest Sunday at this time. Mothers Day (in the UK) is closest Sunday to the Spring Equinox with its connections to fertility and conception. Father's Day is closest Sunday to Midsummer and the Festival of the All Father, and all the manly connections that has which are still celebrated at Highland Games; with races, competitions and sports (tossing the caber, pallic or what?). First harvest festivals and last harvest festivals are all the same, and the Child of Light at Winter Solstice is the same in most religions.
Hi Branwen,
Not sure if I totally agree with you about the above. Remembrance Day is celebrated on the closest Sunday to Armistice day - 11th November.
I had not heard about the festival of All Father before, I thought it was just the summer solstice. I would like to know more if you have time to go into it. I know 24th June has been christianised as the feast of John the Baptist, which is perhaps symbolic of summer 'dying' to give way to 'birth of the light' (winter solstice).