This is a world in which I'll post my everyday stuff...
Things that happened, thoughts... things like that...
*Coughs*
Lets begin with the introductions:
Real Name: Veronica ( That's what the V stands after Krondorian )
Age: 21
Hair Color: Auburn
Height: 1.73 m (i think that's 5'8'')
Ocupation: Student of Computer Science ( in the 4th year )
Place of Residence: Herakleion, Crete, Greece
Things I like: Everything that makes me smile
Things I dislike: Not much...
I think that's enough for now...
Hope you enjoy my world~
Samhain is a Gaelic festival held on October 31–November 1. The Irish name Samhain is derived from Old Irish and means roughly "summer's end". A harvest festival with ancient roots in Celtic polytheism, it was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and continued to be celebrated in late medieval times. Due to its date it became associated with the Christian festival All Saints' Day, and greatly influenced modern celebration of Halloween.
The Gaulish calendar appears to have divided the year into two halves: the 'dark' half, beginning with the month Samonios (the October/November lunation), and the 'light' half, beginning with the month Giamonios (the April/May lunation).
In medieval Ireland, Samhain became the principal festival, celebrated with a great assembly at the royal court in Tara, lasting for three days. After being ritually started on the Hill of Tlachtga, a bonfire was set alight on the Hill of Tara, which served as a beacon, signaling to people gathered atop hills all across Ireland to light their ritual bonfires. The custom has survived to some extent, and recent years have seen a resurgence in participation in the festival.
Samhain was identified in Celtic literature as the beginning of the Celtic year.
Bonfires played a large part in the festivities celebrated down through the last several centuries, and up through the present day in some rural areas of the Celtic nations and the diaspora. Villagers were said to have cast the bones of the slaughtered cattle upon the flames. In the pre-Christian Gaelic world, cattle were the primary unit of currency and the center of agricultural and pastoral life. Samhain was the traditional time for slaughter, for preparing stores of meat and grain to last through the coming winter.
With the bonfire ablaze, the villagers extinguished all other fires. Each family then solemnly lit its hearth from the common flame, thus bonding the families of the village together. Often two bonfires would be built side by side, and the people would walk between the fires as a ritual of purification. Sometimes the cattle and other livestock would be driven between the fires, as well.
Gaelic custom of wearing costumes and masks, was an attempt to copy the evil spirits or placate them. In Scotland the dead were impersonated by young men with masked, veiled or blackened faces, dressed in white. Candle lanterns, carved from turnips were part of the traditional festival. Large turnips were hollowed out, carved with faces, placed in windows to ward off evil spirits.
Guisers — men in disguise, were prevalent in 16th century in the Scottish countryside. Children going door to door "guising" in costumes and masks carrying turnip lanterns, offering entertainment of various sorts in return for food or coins, was traditional in 19th century, and continued well into 20th century. At the time of mass transatlantic Irish and Scottish immigration that popularized Halloween in North America, Halloween in Ireland and Scotland had a strong tradition of guising and pranks.
Samhain is one of the eight annual festivals, often referred to as 'Sabbats', observed as part of the Wiccan Wheel of the Year. It is considered by most Wiccans to be the most important of the four 'greater Sabbats'. It is generally observed on October 31 in the Northern Hemisphere, starting at sundown. Samhain is considered by some Wiccans as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets and other loved ones who have died. In some rituals the spirits of the departed are invited to attend the festivities. It is seen as a festival of darkness, which is balanced at the opposite point of the wheel by the spring festival of Beltane, which Wiccans celebrate as a festival of light and fertility.
So light up a candle for the ghosts of the past and let the dark half of the year start unfolding...
Well, I'd have to answer a lot but let's see the test too!
[X] You have screamed at an inanimate object for 'hurting you.'
[X] You have run into a glass/screen door.
[ ] You have jumped out of a moving vehicle.
[X] You hav...
Hello everyone!!!^^
I'm terribly hyper today! I didn't go to my morning class cause I just wanted to sleep a little more for the first time in weeks. Yesterday I went shopping after a month o_O That must have been the longest since I've seen the center of the city!!! I love walking to the city!!! *_*
Anyways, I bought some earings and a book!
Has anybody hear read it???
I also found this song:
I love it!!!<3 Go Jesse!!!! (I'm not a groupie...really.)
Anyways, one of my projects at college is going well and I'm really glad cause I spend a lot of time in it!
