#Solstice of heroes lore full
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Seasonal depression sets in and so lights are lit, knowingly or unknowingly to give the warm emotion of the season a visible display.

#Solstice of heroes lore full

The battle between Light and Darkness is in full swing, be it ГЃine v GrГan or BrГd v Cailleach. This is a time to be honored, as it was it will be forever so. I feel that I canвЂ™t ignore the threshold that is winter and the transition to lower light, mostly an indoor existence, living off of stored foods, telling stories and doing minimal work.

#Solstice of heroes lore free

This is good news because we are free to decide if it is right forВ local people(pobals), groves(Diore), and tribes(Tuatha)В to practice the observance of this time. And while scholars, CR folks, and druids donвЂ™t agree on this being a celtic feast day in ancient times, the home-focused nature of Winter feast days would leave less of a trace on history, so we canвЂ™t be completely sureвЂ¦ and that means it remains as candidate for reconstructions. Riuri roughly denoting вЂfrost-monthвЂ™ and Deuorius, meaning вЂdivine great feastвЂ™(Kondratiev 131). We can do better and Alexei shows how.Дeuoriuos Riuri is the name of this month in the Coligny calendar from Gaul. This we know from early celtic studies, and so when we fail to arrive at workable solstice traditions for Druids and Celtic pagans and witches, we fail and we fail hard. Their calendars and time was kept by light and dark, and night preceded day. To the Celts, Light and Darkness was a big deal. вЂњ The sun was a matter to them of great awe, but the moon was a friend of great love, guiding their course upon land and sea, and their path wherever they went.вЂќ (Carmichael 274).