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Term: lammas

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Lammas: A festival held on the first of August each year. In Europe it marked the first wheat harvest. Also known as Lughnassa. It also marks the change of energies in the triple goddess from Mother to Crone.
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A year was called a bleidoni (twelve months, or thirteen in a leap year), and it was divided into two main seasons: samon, "summer," and giamon, "winter." A sonnocingos, "solar-march," was the term for a solar year of 365.5 days. A bleidoni ...
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