Day 6 The Cranberry

Superfruit Cranberries are native to North America and have been a tradition at Thanksgiving/Gabon since the early seventeenth century....they are an amazing little fruit with endless possibilities, packed full of antioxidants and tart goodness....


                                                            Alaskan Cranberries

some Cranberry Promotion

Harvest Time

                                                                        Cranberry Art

and in conclusion.....The Cranberries x

with the song Linger

                                                                               

Day 5

Forget Black Friday.....today is Black Turkey Day x


                                                                         Meet Tom

Ms.Tom AKA THE HEN :P

Tom and the Lads

                                                                Tom doesn't wanna snuggle

                                                           Damn Heathens....

                                                          more anti-Tom heathen work ;)

                                                     presenting The Tom Feather Shawl...
                                                        

Day 4

Mabon

all for now gotta go!!! Have a good one!

Day 3

Here are some of the symbols and correspondences for Mabon.

The deities that you can call upon during your Mabon ritual are:

• Goddesses-
  • Modron
  • Morgan
  • Epona
  • Persephone
  • Pamona
  • the Muses
• Gods
  • Mabon,
  • Thoth
  • Thor
  • Hermes
  • The Green Man

Symbols of Mabon:

• wine
• gourds
• pine cones
• acorns,
• grains
• corn
• apples
• pomegranates
• vines such as ivy
• dried seeds
• horns of plenty (a/k/a cornucopia)

Herbs of Maybon:

• Acorn
• benzoin
• ferns
• grains
• honeysuckle
• marigold
• milkweed
• myrrh
• passionflower
• rose
• sage
• solomon’s seal
• tobacco
• thistle
• vegetables.

Foods of Mabon:

• Breads
• nuts
• apples
• pomegranates
• vegetables such as potatoes, carrots, and onions.

Incense of Mabon:

• Pine
• sage
• sweetgrass
• myrhh.

Colors of Mabon:

• Red
• orange
• russet
• maroon
• brown
• gold.

Stones of Mabon:

• Sapphire
• lapis lazuli
• yellow agates.

Spellworkings of Mabon:

• Protection
• prosperity
• security
• self-confidence
• harmony and balance.

Day 2.........

Day 1....?

Alternative thoughts on Thanksgiving.....

PAGAN SYMBOLS OF THANKSGIVING DAY
A goose used to be the main course for harvest festivals and was replaced by the more common turkey in America with the Indians first. These birds representing the sun god or the Son of god, an imitation of the Son of God slain for others. Actually the symbols derived all the way back to Nimrod and Semiramis. Words from Wilkinson, an Egyptologist:
'The goose,' says Wilkinson, 'signified in hieroglyphics A CHILD OR SON;' and Horapollo says (i.53, p.276), 'It was chosen TO DENOTE A SON, from its love to its young, being always ready to give itself up to the chasseur[hunter], in order that they might be preserved; for which reason the Egyptians thought it right to revere this animal.' (Wilkinson's Egyptians, vol. v., p. 227)."

Apples–Celts–rebirth, healing and youth

Pumpkin is used as a symbol for the sun and is also prominent in Halloween, replacements in the Western Hemisphere. The sacred goose of Europe was used if available, but turkeys were more prevalent so were substituted for them with the same idea derived from pagan harvest festivals.

Turkey-- Native Americans–symbolized the Mother Earth and a shared Harvest