Lammas Lughnasadh art greeting cards - Kitchen Witch - Pagan Sabbat

Send love, appreciation, and harvest blessings with our wholesome Lammas / Lughnasadh greeting cards, born from an original oil painting.

Perfect for chefs, cooks, and kitchen witches, this thoughtful card:

• Nurtures connection to nature's rhythms
• Inspires gratitude for life's bounty
• Kindles the fiery passion of Lugh, Celtic god of light

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LUGHNASADH AND LAMMAS: SOME KEY POINTS:

TRADITIONAL DATES :

• Northern Hem: August 1st or 2nd . 
• Southern Hem:  February 1 st or 2 nd
• Astrological dates vary annually.

Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon hlaf-mas, "loaf-mass") was initially a holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere. It is a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new crop, which began to be harvested at Lammastide, which falls at the halfway point between the summer Solstice and Autumn September Equinox.
The loaf was blessed and in Anglo-Saxon England it might be employed afterwards in protective rituals.

In many parts of England, tenants were bound to present freshly harvested wheat to their landlords on or before the first day of August. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called "the feast of first fruits". The blessing of first fruits was performed annually in both the Eastern and Western Churches on the first or the sixth of August (the latter being the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ).

Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is traditionally a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically is was widely observed and celebrated throughout Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man. It corresponds to other European harvest festivals such as the Welsh Gwyl Awst and the English Lammas.

The festival is named after the God Lugh. It involved great gatherings that included religious ceremonies, ritual athletic contests (most notably the Tailteann Games), feasting, matchmaking and trading.

Lughnasadh customs persisted widely until the 20th century, with the event being variously named 'Garland Sunday', 'Bilberry Sunday', 'Mountain Sunday' and 'Crom Dubh Sunday'. The custom of climbing hills and mountains at Lughnasadh has survived in some areas, although it has been re-cast as a Christian pilgrimage. The best known is the 'Reek Sunday' pilgrimage to the top of Croagh Patrick on the last Sunday in July. A number of fairs are also believed to be survivals of Lughnasadh, for example, the Puck Fair. Since the late 20th century, Celtic neopagans have observed Lughnasadh, or something based on it, as a religious holiday. In some places, elements of the festival have been revived as a cultural event

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LUGHNASADH AND LAMMAS - CARD SPECS:

❤  Cards are printed on Semi- Gloss 350 gsm card
❤ They come with white envelopes
❤ Blank inside
❤ Individually wrapped in cellophane sleeves
❤ Choose from A6 or A5 sizes

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