Do you pareotinate in it....my wife goes all out....sitting here with a pumpkin and a Halloween village as i light...some plumb pudding
Used to do Halloween, but I've rolled it back to what it traditionally was. That being All Hallows Eve, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day.
Exactly this. If you want to go back to what Halloween traditionally was, you've got to go back to Samhain and other pagan festivals. Similar to Easter, Christmas etc... The newer cultures all borrow from the older.I think that's actually the other way around. The fledgeling Christianity superimposed their holidays and traditions over the existing "pagan" holidays to convert and dissuade people into the new fangled mythology.
So? It doesn't follow that just because a thing is older it doesn't mean that is more true, or pure, or whatever. That's just a logical fallacy.I think that's actually the other way around.
The tradition of carving turnip lanterns, bonfires, and dressing up to frighten away spirits, Samhain, predates the modern religion's appropriations by centuries.So? It doesn't follow that just because a thing is older it doesn't mean that is more true, or pure, or whatever. That's just a logical fallacy.
Careful, you'll incite a Secret Saturn thread.Merry Feast of Saturnalia!
It's the third harvest festival, the first being of wheat at Lammas and the second at Equinox, still celebrated. Lammas, 1st August, is the cross-quarter day when daylight hours start to rapidly dwindle, Samhain, 1st November, is the cross-quarter day when that decline slows to a crawl, although technically it's more like 7th August to 5th November.The tradition of carving turnip lanterns, bonfires, and dressing up to frighten away spirits, Samhain, predates the modern religion's appropriations by centuries.View attachment 336361