First Fruits

Today is Lammas...

Once a pagan Sabbat. It celebrated the first wheat harvest and was co-opted by the Catholic/Christian church when they moved into northern Europe as the loaf- or lamb-mass.

Most of the other sabbats had the same thing happen to them but not all are still celebrated and only a few are still celebrated within the church. they include Christmas (Yule) and Easter (Ostre). Halloween (Samhain) is one but it is more a secular one now than a religious holiday; the same goes for groundhog's day which was once Imbolg then Candlemas and is now nothing more than a joke really. And some are completely forgotten like Mabon which is in September and few remember Beltaine though they may have heard of May Day, if only in reference to the Soviets parading nuclear missiles through Red Square.

But, Pinky defies the born-agains, even those who are her friends and co-workers when it comes to things like the sabbats because she believes that there is nothing wrong with honoring the beliefs of the old religions as well as the prevailing ones. (The word prevailing always puts me in mind of prevailing winds and how they sweep over everything--a frightening analogy really!)

I'd rather know more than less about the past because I think what has been thought of before can inform me about what someone might think of in the future. There may be someone out there who thinks they have a new great and original idea but ten to one someone else has thought of it and it's good to know what this contemporaries said about it. It's good to see the connections between ideas too.

Anyway, I'm tired and could keep rambling but to what purpose? None really.