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Litha, Lughnasadh/Lammas, Ostara Yellow is one of the most versatile colours, and used in a plethora of holidays. In Litha, yellow is the primary colour, and symbolic of the Sun, joy and light. [65] In Lughnasadh or Lammas, yellow is symbolic of the grain the holiday celebrates and the Sun. [66] In Ostara, it represents flowers and spring. [67 ...
Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year. The name "midsummer" mainly refers to summer solstice festivals of European origin.
Litha means "gentle" or "navigable", because in both these months the calm breezes are gentle, and they were wont to sail upon the smooth sea. Weodmonath means "month of tares [weeds]", for they are very plentiful then. "Helegmonath" means "month of sacred rites". Winterfilleth can be called by the invented composite name "winter-full".
Beck argues that religious celebrations on this date are indicative of special significance being given to the summer solstice; but this time of the year coincides with ancient recognition of the solar maximum at midsummer, when iconographically identical holidays such as Litha, Saint John's Eve, and Jāņi are also observed.
The New York Liberty are WNBA champions for the first time, and the celebration was 28 years in the making.. New York City held a ticker tape parade and City Hall celebration as part of a full day ...
This is a celebration of the corn harvest and subsequent "tying". The group eschews the term "Lammas" as it is entirely Christian in origin. Late September: Hærfestlíc Freólsung (Harvest Festival) Devoted to a range of beings including Ing, Thunor, Frig, and Woden. This is a celebration of the late harvest, and symbolic offering of the Last ...
In recent centuries, some celebrations have shifted to Sundays near this date. Lughnasadh is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals, along with Samhain, Imbolc, and Beltane. It corresponds to the Welsh Gŵyl Awst and the English Lammas. Lughnasadh is mentioned in early Irish literature and has pagan origins. The festival is named after the ...
Litha Musyimi-Ogana (born 1959) is a Kenyan, who has worked as an international civil servant and development advisor for many years. Since 2022, she has been an elected member of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights , chairing the committees responsible for Indigenous people and people living with HIV.