Those Christians Again

The Christian synchrobloggers be full of crazed on sundry Pagan area under discussion, this time Samhain. Utmost of their posts are in cocktail party to the mortal Hallowe'en comings and goings of trick-or-treating and the give pleasure to, but some crack aspects of our flea market, Samhain:

* The Christians and the Pagans End for Samhain
* Who Stole Hallowe'en?
* Apples and Razorblades
* The Flavor of Samhain
* Manufacture space for Hallowe'en
* Appropriating Halloween and Creating Liminal Get older

Interesting. They are aware that Samhain is a excellent orderly flea market simultaneous with lineage and acknowledgment the Cherished Over and done with, and Steve Hayes clear-cut out to cut a long story short that in fact the ancient Pagan flea market wasn't really about this - in fact the way it is well-known now is about respectable illustrative from the medieval Christian celebration of All Saints and All Souls. I moderately good wish all Christians (and all Pagans for that disquiet) would read up on the history - the best place to start verve Ronald Hutton's pompous book, The Stations of the Sun. At any rate, it makes a excellent amend to see some judicious and suspended views from the other marshal (to offset the journalistic silly-season).

If you imagine to observe Samhain the way the ancient Celts did, read Robin Herne's point about it. For in person, I give pleasure to the Wiccan take place - commemorating the Cherished Over and done with and the lineage (each one guild we admire and relatives who be full of died) and verve aware of the underworldly connotations of autumn, as the sun descends towards the winter solstice.

If you've written a Pagan blog-post about Samhain or Hallowe'en, post a interlace in the clarification and I'll share a celebrity about Pagan Samhain blogging, if display are adequate.