Showing posts with label pagan thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pagan thanksgiving. Show all posts

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

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.

Monday, November 21, 2011



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