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Veil Between Worlds

I may not be Celtic, or Druid, or Wiccan...
But some of their legends have got me to thinking,
About Halloween origins and what it all meant...
When I got this card that somebody sent.

There's something romantic about this history,
And how it applies to you and me.

Like consider the "veil between worlds being thinnest"...
And new projects started while old ones are finished.
Well, computers, it seems, accomplish these tasks
In a different way building strong links to our past...

And on our web pages our spirits come through,
Eternally young and happy too?

Perhaps with each message and every page
We're building Tir nan Og in the new age;
Reaching across worlds greeting the new,
While remembering the past fondly too.

A Special Samhain to you my friend!

Better Known As...?
Happy Halloween
 
 

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Did You Know...??

  • Halloween is a descendent of the ancient Celtic fire festival called "Samhain". The word is pronounced "sow-in", with "sow" rhyming with cow. 
  • Samhain, All Hallowtide, was known as the feast of the dead in Pagan and Christian times, signalizing the close of harvest and the initiation of the winter season.
  • Faeries were imagined as particularly active at this season. From it the half year is reckoned.
  • The dead were sometimes believed to be dwelling with the Fairy Folk, who lived in the numerous mounds or sidhe (pron. "shee") that dotted the Irish and Scottish countryside.
  • The Celts believed that when people died, they went to a land of eternal youth and happiness called Tir nan Og.
  • The end of summer was significant to the Celts, a pastoral people as opposed to an agricultural people, because it meant the time of year when the structure of their lives changed radically.
  • Samhain was the new year to the Celts. In the Celtic belief system, turning points, such as the time between one day and the next, the meeting of sea and shore, or the turning of one year into the next were seen as magickal times.
  • The turning of the year was the most potent of these times. This was the time when the "veil between the worlds" was at its thinnest, and the living could communicate with their beloved dead in Tir nan Og.
  • Many followers of various pagan religions, such as Druids and Wiccans observe this day as a religious festival. They view it as a memorial day for their dead friends, similar to the national holiday of Memorial Day in May.
  • It is still a night to practice various forms of divination concerning future events - and - considered a time to wrap up old projects, take stock of ones life, and initiate new projects for the coming year.

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