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Samhain, proper pronunciation
- Thread starter Viker
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Heyo
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And it's rarely on the 31st of October. That date was fixed by the Romans who had a solar calendar which didn't sync with the lunar calendar of the Celts. There are fragments of an attempted lunar-solar calendar found in Coligny. It has not been decoded completely.
Given that the Celts used the moon for time keeping, it is rational to assume that Samhain was on either a full or, more likely, a new moon.
@The Hammer may be interested in this.
Yeah, I would be willing to bet that it either aligned with the moon, or a particular dawn or dusk. I know there are a few graves who align with the dusk of Samhain the UK.
I've always pronounced Samhain, as Sow-in, or Sow-ain.
Heyo
Veteran Member
The Celtic day started with dusk, the year with the dark time. That's why I assume that it also started on a new moon, probably the second new moon after the equinox. But that's just assumptions made on patterns. Nobody really knows.
My Samhain celebration will be the night of the first full moon in Nov. That's the 7th.
Heyo
Veteran Member
As reasonable as any other date around this time. A coven I know have set their Holy Days on the weekends following the Gardnerian dates.
That's what a lot of people do, for ease of getting a group together. I practice pretty solitarily, so that allows me more date flexibility. I did go to a Samhain ritual this past Saturday and had a great time.