Other Names: Lugh, Lammas, August Eve, The Festival of Bread, Elembiuos, Lunasa, Cornucopia, Thingtide
Lughnasadh
Colours: Grey, yellow, gold, green, orange, brown.
Lughnasadh Deities: Harvest and Grain deities, New Mother Goddesses. Frey, Lugh, Maccha.
Lughnasadh Symbols: All grains, breads, berries - especially blackberries, harvesting tools.
Lughnasadh Herbs: cornstalks, heather, frankincense, and wheat may be burned; acacia flowers, corn ears, hollyhock,
myrtle, oak leaves, grapes, crab apples, pear and wheat may used as decorations.
Lughnasadh Offererings: bread,
cider and cakes.
~ Festival of the first of the harvests.
~ Lammas is the Anglo Saxon name for the festival. It means Loaf Mass.
~ Lughnasadh is the festival of Lugh, a Celtic God of Fire and Light, and God of crafts and skills.
~ Lughs Welsh form is as Llew Llaw Gyffes, and in the Mabinogi story of Blodewedd and Lleu, the theme of Lleu as the
sacrificed God can be seen.
~ Gronw Pebr in the Mabinogi, can be seen as the Dark God, and Lleu the Light/Bright God of the Waxing Year, and Blodeuwedd
represents the Goddess in her flower maiden form/aspect.
~ Lammas has the theme of the sacrificed God of the harvest, but he is sacrificed and transforme, rather than descending
into the Underworld to become Lord of Death, which comes later in the year.
~ It is the time of the fulfillness of life, and a celebration of the bountiful Earth.
~ It is a time of the sacrificial mating of the Goddes and God, where the Corn King, given light by the Goddess and tasting
of Her love is sacrificed into the bread and ale which feed us.
~ the main themes of Lammas are; thanksgiving to the Goddess for Her bountiful harvest, sacrifice, transformation, and a
sharing of the energy of the Corn King.
