HALLOWEEN - How much is Invisible to you about this holiday or all that we see.
Yesterday I was cutting and making a "Jack O Lantern". We see them but never think of the work of making them... I know that the inside must be well cleaned as when the light shines through the side it will show all knife marks or difference in thickness. I know to keep the seeds (we will make christmas brouch) or keep the scooped out pumpkin for making a jam.
Last week my girlfriend "Betty" and I went to the neighbouring town, and at the information office there were about 10 women painting faces on about 100 or more pumpkins. This was the fund raising for the organization against Violence against Women and Children. Their pumpkins for $10 was a great idea and each person was doing a different color or part of the face..( circle of the eye. red of the blush on the cheek, or black of the eyelashes)
Invisible is all the preparations that actual go on. From the stores preparing for the season to the decorations on individual homes... or even the purchase of candy for the visitors.
What is Halloween...
First Wikipedia, the best internet free encyclopedia describes Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31.
Where Hallowe'en came from the Celtic festival of Samhain, a word from Old Irish [ˈsaṽɨnʲ] meaning "summer's end", is really a celebration or festival held at the end of the Harvest season. This time of the year was seen as the major contribution to the modern celebration of Halloween while many scholars believe that the date was the beginning of the Celtic year.
Have you heard the celtic spoken.. I remember many years ago Chris from Ireland , with whom I worked gave me some expressions.. Well the only celtic we hear today is spoken is remote areas of Ireland and out crops of Irish (like the Cape Breton Island, here in Nova Scotia. A lot of Irish graveyards are there.. then there is the scottish... check out Marie's page where she writes "Ciad Mile Fáilte ( Prounced ....(KEY-UT-ME-LA FALCHUH).)
These poeple wheather in Cape Breton or on their home land... their language remain invisible as they are proud of their history.. Probably more their family history than able to trace their ties to Ireland but still ... Invisible to the outside world.
Read about the "History of Celtic Peoples" and we get suggests that after the expansion of the Roman Empire, Celtic culture had become restricted to the British Isles and lands surrounding the Irish Sea, or both sides of the area of the English Channel. Halloween becomes the remainder that these people existed... or are visible ... for one night or a few days of decorations.
A very good movie was produced about the pagen celebrations of the goddress of life and death and how when chistianity came to England the feast of Samhain was converted to All Saints' Day and Hallowe'en. The feast of Samhain was also called the Féile Moingfhinne ie "Festival of
Mongfind", where Mongfind (mod.Irish spelling Mongfhionn) was a goddess the pagan Irish worshipped.
Then there is the meaning and history of the holiday of Hallowe'en
All Saints' Day (officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on November 1 in Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity in honor of all the saints, known and unknown.
Yesterday I was cutting and making a "Jack O Lantern". We see them but never think of the work of making them... I know that the inside must be well cleaned as when the light shines through the side it will show all knife marks or difference in thickness. I know to keep the seeds (we will make christmas brouch) or keep the scooped out pumpkin for making a jam.
Last week my girlfriend "Betty" and I went to the neighbouring town, and at the information office there were about 10 women painting faces on about 100 or more pumpkins. This was the fund raising for the organization against Violence against Women and Children. Their pumpkins for $10 was a great idea and each person was doing a different color or part of the face..( circle of the eye. red of the blush on the cheek, or black of the eyelashes)
Invisible is all the preparations that actual go on. From the stores preparing for the season to the decorations on individual homes... or even the purchase of candy for the visitors.
What is Halloween...
First Wikipedia, the best internet free encyclopedia describes Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31.
Where Hallowe'en came from the Celtic festival of Samhain, a word from Old Irish [ˈsaṽɨnʲ] meaning "summer's end", is really a celebration or festival held at the end of the Harvest season. This time of the year was seen as the major contribution to the modern celebration of Halloween while many scholars believe that the date was the beginning of the Celtic year.
Have you heard the celtic spoken.. I remember many years ago Chris from Ireland , with whom I worked gave me some expressions.. Well the only celtic we hear today is spoken is remote areas of Ireland and out crops of Irish (like the Cape Breton Island, here in Nova Scotia. A lot of Irish graveyards are there.. then there is the scottish... check out Marie's page where she writes "Ciad Mile Fáilte ( Prounced ....(KEY-UT-ME-LA FALCHUH).)
These poeple wheather in Cape Breton or on their home land... their language remain invisible as they are proud of their history.. Probably more their family history than able to trace their ties to Ireland but still ... Invisible to the outside world.
Read about the "History of Celtic Peoples" and we get suggests that after the expansion of the Roman Empire, Celtic culture had become restricted to the British Isles and lands surrounding the Irish Sea, or both sides of the area of the English Channel. Halloween becomes the remainder that these people existed... or are visible ... for one night or a few days of decorations.
A very good movie was produced about the pagen celebrations of the goddress of life and death and how when chistianity came to England the feast of Samhain was converted to All Saints' Day and Hallowe'en. The feast of Samhain was also called the Féile Moingfhinne ie "Festival of
Mongfind", where Mongfind (mod.Irish spelling Mongfhionn) was a goddess the pagan Irish worshipped.
Then there is the meaning and history of the holiday of Hallowe'en
All Saints' Day (officially the Solemnity of All Saints and also called All Hallows or Hallowmas), often shortened to All Saints, is a solemnity celebrated on November 1 in Western Christianity, and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity in honor of all the saints, known and unknown.
