161. A Neopagan Druid Calendar A Neopagan druid Calendar 2.4.1. Copyright © 1974, 2001 ce, Isaac Bonewits. Major and Minor High Days. There are four Major High Days http://www.neopagan.net/NeoDruidismCalendar.html

A Neopagan Druid Calendar 2.4.1 Major and Minor High Days There are four Major High Days (Samhain, Oimelc, Beltane and Lughnasadh The most common practice for the calculation of Samhain in Welsh as Nos Galen-Gaeaf Laa Houney Sauin or Souney. Samhain Halloween. Samhain is often said to have been the most important of the fire festivals, because (according to most Celtic scholars) it may have marked the Celtic New Year. At the least, Samhain was equal in importance to Beltane and shared many symbolic characteristics. Whether it was the Celtic New Year or not, Samhain was the beginning of the Winter or Dark Half of the Year (the seasons of Geimredh and Earrach) as Beltane was the beginning of the Summer or Light Half of the Year (the seasons of Samradh and Foghamhar). The day before Samhain is the last day of summer (or the old year) and the day after Samhain Samhain Samhain that the Nemedians captured the terrible Tower of Glass built by the evil Formorians; that the Tuatha De Danann later defeated the Formors once and for all; that Pwyll won his wife Rhiannon from Gwawl; and that many other events of a dramatic or prophetic nature in Celtic myth happened. Many of these events had to do with the temporary victory of the forces of darkness over those of light, signaling the beginning of the cold and dark half of the year.

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