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 Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:07 am
**Captins Note** This thread normally resides in the Academy, but has been moved here in honor of the upcoming holiday. While it is here please treat it as a normal Academy thread. Ask many questions and learn!!August 1
"This is the celebration of the first friuts of the harvest. The Sun King, now Dark Lord, gives his energy to the crops to ensure life while the MOther prepares to give way to her aspect as the Crone. Now is the time to teach what you have learned, to share the fruits of your achievements with the world."www.mindspring.com (site no longer works)
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:10 pm
Lammas Information
-Lammas is one of the four Greater or Major Sabbats. It is a harvest festival
-Lammas (also known as Lughnasadh: pronounced oo-nus-uh) is the first Harvest Festival, observed during the beginning of harvest, at the start of Autumn. Pagans are thankful for the food with which they have been blessed. Plants are withering, but they are also leaving seeds, a promise of their eventual re-birth. The God is beginning to weaken and dim with age, as the days grow shorter, giving his energy his energy to the crops to ensure life while the Mother prepares to give way to her aspect as the Crone. Now is the time to teach what you have learned, to share the fruits of your achievements with the world. Wheat weaving, such as the making of corn dollies, is traditional. Bread is baked and the altar is decorated with fruits and vegetables of the harvest.
-Wheat weaving, such as making of corn dollies, is traditional. Bread is baked and the altar is decorated with fruits and vegtables of the harvest.
-Lammas marks the beginning of the First Harvest, when the fruits of the Earth are cut and stored for the coming Winter months. This is a time of thanksgiving, a time when we should reap the rewards of what we have sown and look to consolidate upon our position before the coming dark half of the year. It is a time to be greatful for all that we have.
-This, the First Harvest Festival, heralds the Sun God beginning to lose his virility, old age is fast approaching and tis the beginning of decline for the God as he weakens along with the days that are also shortening.
- Some of the decor you would use on your altar could be sheaves of wheat, barley or oats, fruit and breads, anything representative of the fruits of the harvest. You could make a loaf of bread in the shape of the sun or a man to represent the God. It is also a common practice to make corn dollies representing the goddess. The Altar Cloth should be yellow, and candles yellow, orange, brown or black.
Did You Know:
-In Celtic mythology there is a story of a young boy who accidentally drinks hazelnuts from the Magickal cauldron of the Welsh Goddess Cerridwen. He shape-shifts into a hare. She shape-shifts into a greyhound and chases him. He then shape-shifts into a grain of wheat, but Cerridwen then shape-shifts into a black hen. You know what comes next...she eats the grain of wheat and gives birth to a baby boy, who becomes a great bard and seer poet, Taliesin. Cerridwen is the goddess of death, regeneration, grain and poetic inspiration.
(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/lammas.htm)
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:12 pm
Lammas Correspondences
AKA:
Lunasa (meaning August), Lughnasaad, Lughnasa Celtic),First Harvest, August Eve, Feast of Cardenas, Feast of Bread, Tailltean Games(Irish), Teltain Cornucopia (Strega), Ceresalia (Ancient Roman) Harvest Home, Thingtide (Teutonic), Lammas (Christian). Laa Luanys, Elembious, Festival of Green Corn (Native American)
Animals/Mythical beings:
griffins, basilisks, roosters, calves, centaurs, phoenix
Gemstones:
aventurine, citrine, peridot, sardonyx, yellow diamondsand citrine
Incense/Oil:
wood aloes, rose, rose hips, rosemary, chamomile, eucalyptus, safflower, corn, passionflower, frankincense, sandalwood
Colors/Candles:
red, orange, golden yellow, green, light brown, gold, bronze, gray
Tools/Symbols/Decorations:
corn, cornucopias, red, yellow flowers, sheaves of grain (wheat, barley, oats), first fruits/vegetables of garden labor, corn dollies, baskets of bread, spear, cauldron, sickle, scythe, threshing tools, sacred loaf of bread, harvested herbs, bonfires, bilberries, God figures made of bread or cookie dough, phallic symbols
Goddesses:
the Mother, Dana (Lugh&'s wife & queen ), Tailltiu (Welsh-Scottish), Demeter (Greek), Ceres (Roman grain goddess .. honored at Ceresalia), the Barley Mother, Seelu (Cherokee), Corn Mother, Isis (Her birthday is celebrated about this time), Luna (Roman Moon Goddess), other agricultural Goddesses, the waxing Goddess
Gods:
Lugh (Celtic, one of the Tuatha De Danaan), John Barley Corn, Arianrhod's golden haired son Lleu (Welsh God of the Sun & Corn where corn includes all grains, not just maize), Dagon (Phoenician Grain God), Tammuz/ Dummuzi (Sumerian), Dionysus, plus all sacrificial Gods who willingly shed
blood/give their life that their people/lands may prosper, all vegetation Gods & Tanus (Gaulish Thunder God), Taranis (Romano-Celtic Thunder God), Tina, (Etruscan-Thunder God), the waning God
Essence:
fruitfulness, reaping, prosperity, reverence, purification, transformation, change, The Bread of Life, The Chalice of Plenty , The Ever-flowing Cup , the Groaning Board (Table of Plenty)
Dynamics/Meaning:
Lugh's wedding to Mother Earth, Birth of Lugh; Death of Lugh, Celtic Grain Festival
Purpose:
honoring the parent Deities, first harvest festival, first fruits grains & drink to the Goddess in appreciation of Her bounty, offering loaves of sacred bread in the form of the God (this is where the Gingerbread Man originated!)
Rituals/Magicks:
astrology, prosperity, generosity, continued success, good fortune, abundance, magickal picnic, meditate & visualize yourself completing a project you've started
Customs:
games, the traditional riding of poles/staves, country fairs, breaking bread with friends, making corn dollys, harvesting herbs for charms/rituals, Lughnasadh fire with sacred wood & dried herbs, feasting, competitions, lammas towers (fire-building team competitions), spear tossing, gathering flowers for crowns, fencing/swordplay, games of skill, martial sports, chariot races, hand-fastings, trial marriages, dancing 'round a corn mother (doll)
Foods:
loaves of homemade wheat, oat, & corn bread, barley cakes, corn, potatoes, summer squash, nuts, acorns, wild berries (any type), apples, rice, pears, berry pies, elderberry wine, crab apples, mead, crab, blackberries, meadowsweet tea, grapes, cider, beer
Herbs:
grain, acacia, heather, ginseng, sloe, cornstalks, cyclamen, fenugreek, aloes, frankincense, sunflower, hollyhock, oak leaf, wheat, myrtle
Element/Gender:
fire/female
Threshold:
noon
List courtesy of: http://katybugdidit.tripod.com/id21.html
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:13 pm
Suggested Lammas Ritual
On the night of Lammas cast the circle (see our Casting a Circle page for a suggested Casting) and invoke the Lord and Lady. It is through them that the harvest time has come full circle once again. Once you have done that do the following:
1. Give thanks for the first signs of harvest, not only of the fields such as the grain, but in your life. Are there new things that have come to fruition in your life as a result of your relationship with the God and Goddess?
2. Now raise some power by dancing deosil (clockwise) around an unlit candle in the cauldron at the centre of your circle. (You may want to have some ritualistic fast moving music on hand for this. Make sure you have something else playing to lead into it giving you enough time for the preceding steps since you won't want to step outside your circle once it's cast. Chant the following
For Sun we mourn
As he shall wane.
The crops remain.
Through kern and corn,
The harvest born,
Shall life return.
Our Mother Earth
Now brings to birth
The life poured forth
In life and warmth.
You could also chant a wild poem of your own creation which is very appropriate with Cerridwen being the Goddess of poetic inspiration.
3. Use your wand to direct power into the candle. Then as you light it say:
Now may the light shine forth and may the harvest ripen.
For we live by the land and only by her health and fruitfulness
Can we be rich in health and fruitfulness.
Sun, shine in strength and brilliance.
Sun, pour out blessings upon the land.
I light this candle to the Sun.Now have on hand a small bowl of vegetable oil or pure virgin olive oil. It should be good quality oil. Sunflower oil is good as well. It will represent an offering…plain pottery or wood is preferred. Consecrate the oil as it will be set aside for magick and quickly pass the bowl through the candle flame. Now sitting cross legged before the cauldron, gaze into the oil. All oil has symbolic connections with fire, flames therefore the Sun. And the Sun gives strength and brightness to the Goddess-as-Mother-Earth. Say aloud: Now the Sun pour out his strength upon Mother Earth, That the crops may ripen and the harvest may be great, I too offer my strength to the Goddess, to Mother Earth. (now list what you bring such as) I bring __________ (my intention to protect the earth from further harm, where and when I can.) Make any pledge that you can make sincerely and breathe it into the oil. There is much behind the breath of a witch. It has tremendous power when charged properly. Concentrate and make things happen. See a gold stream coming with your breath onto the oil…it carries the charge for your offering. Take the oil deosil around the circle to the altar. Touch it to your pentacle thus giving it to the earth. (You may have a stone on your altar to substitute if you desire this as a symbol of the earth.) Leave the bowl on the altar and return to sit beside the cauldron until you are ready for the next part of the rite. Take your time with all of this and put real meaning into it. Think about your promise and visualize yourself carrying it out and most importantly, see the fruitful consequences. (After the rite is ended, pour the oil out onto the earth in your garden or under a tree is fine if you haven't a garden. Now is time to recognize the first fruits of the harvest This could mean different things for different people, but traditionally it would be grain from the fields or fruit from the tree. If you don't grow grain, and can't find any growing in the wild, a small bowl of barley or rye or even brown rice will do. Or you could use some fruit from the store. Try to use organically grown. In this case, we will use fruit. Take the bowl of grain or fruit around the circle deosil, sit beside the cauldron and close your eyes and visualize the harvest. Think about any long term harvest that you want to occur in your life. Lammas is a good time for this. Name out loud the harvest that you hope for. Think about it; visualize it. Be specific in your visualization. Is it success in a career? Marriage? Children? A new home? Is it to become more spiritual? To excel in your practice of the craft? Divination techniques? To become a more giving person? What ever it is, see it happening. Name it out loud and put the fruit in the cauldron by the candle. Dealing With Fear About Not Obtaining Your Harvest:Now at this point, you will hold your athame in one hand and pick up the candle out of its holder in the cauldron. Inscribe on the candle words or a symbolic picture of the obstacle that you may be fearful will interfere with you obtaining your personal harvest. Don't worry about what it looks like. The important thing here is your intention. That is where the real power lies. Now say: As the candle burns and the word (or picture) is gone,
so may my _______ (fear, guilt, etc) be gone.
May it be transformed as wax becomes a flame,
an illumination. Wipe the point of your athame to remove any wax. Now celebrate the harvest, which is to come. Play music, dance, read poetry, and sing, make something, or draw a picture. What ever you do, let it be enjoyable, and whatever you do while in circle, will enhance the creativity in your life. Now celebrate with wine and bread, the bread the Bread of Life, which comes from the Sun's sacrifice…the sun's life energy reborn as bread. Pass the loaf through the candle flame and carry it around the circle deosil holding it high as you come to each quarter in offering. Return to your altar and hold the loaf high saying: Now the Sun fades and the corn will be cut down, the God dies. He is life itself and his spirit passes into the corn and into all the crops, and every kind of harvest. Changed, he is reborn, for life cannot ever finally die. Cut a slice of bread with your Athame and before eating it say: I priestess/priest and Witch, eat of the Bread of Life on behalf of all people, that all may be fed. This is the bread of immortality. Though everything must die, I know that by this nourishment we share rebirth. From moment to moment, year to year, and life to life, we die and are reborn, transformed. We are not separate, nor ever finally alone. For this the bread of life is the bread of communion. ** If you are not pristess/priest then just say witch** Save the rest of the bread to share with family and friends. Consecrate the wine and drink it. When your are ready, thank the god and goddess for their blessing on your ritual and thank the guardian spirits for their participation and bid them Hail and Farewell. Open the circle and emerge with joy and refreshed power. Ritual courtesy of: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/lammas.htm**mild alteration, I included the part about the priestess/priest**
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:14 pm
Lammas Recipes
Not all recipes here are meant for consumption
Cerridwen Oil #1
Ingredients:
3.5 ml hazelnut oil
3.5 ml fir oil
3.5 ml elder oil
Warm all ingredients in an enamel pan on low heat. Allow to cool and place in bottles or jars in the color of the rainbows.
Cerridwen Oil # 2
In a base of Hazelnut oil add:
1/2 dram Elder oil
1/8 dram pine oil
1 snowflake Obsidian chip
1 hazelnut
Elder flowers
Mix well and bottle. Use in Lughnasadh/Lammas rituals or when invoking Cerridwen.
Cerridwen Oil #3
Ingredients:
sandalwood oil (main)
rose (main)
jasmine (minor)
orange (minor)
patchouli (minor)
civet (minor)
camphor (trace)
Mix well according to personal taste and bottle. Use in Lughnasadh/Lammas rituals or when invoking Cerridwen.
Lammas Oil #1
Ingredients:
2 parts lime oil
2 parts cinnamon oil
2 parts sandalwood oil
1 part clove oil
1 part frankincense oil
Mix well and bottle. Use in Lughnasadh/Lammas rituals.
Lammas Oil #2
Ingredients:
1/4 dram thyme oil
1/2 dram cinnamon oil
1/4 dram rose oil
1/2 dram gardenia oil
2 - 3 drops allspice oil
Mix well and bottle. Use in Lughnasadh/Lammas rituals.
Lammas Oil #3
Ingredients:
2 tsp. wheat germ oil
6 drops frankincense oil
2 drops clary sage oil
1 drop rose oil
sunflower oil to make 2 TB.
Mix well and bottle. Use in Lughnasadh/Lammas rituals.http://www.ecauldron.com/lammasoils.php**there are MANY oils on this site**
Lammas Incense Recipe
2 Parts Frankincense
1 part Heather
1 Part Apple Blossoms
1 pinch Blackberry leaves
few drops Ambergris oil
Mix all ingredients thoroughly before burning upon a lit charcoal block in a fireproof container.
Whole Wheat Lammas Loaf
Ingredients
2 cup warm milk
1 cup warm water
2 packets bakers yeast
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon salt
3 cup whole wheat flour
4-7 cup white flour
Method
1) In a large bowl place water, milk and yeast. Stir to dissolve.
2) Add 3 cups of whole wheat flour, mix well and let sit for 15 minutes.
3) Add the oil, honey, salt, brown sugar and white flour. Add the flour 1 cup at a time until you have a smooth, non sticky, manageable dough.
4) Place in a greased bowl, out of drafts , and let rise till double in bulk.
5) Punch down and form into loaves, wreaths and so forth. Let rise again and bake 350 for 45 minutes.
6) Remove from pan and cool on rack. Try to avoid the temptation to eat the loaf while it is still very warm - for cutting a slice off of a hot loaf will turn the remainder soggy.
Lammas Stuffed Mushrooms
Ingredients
2 tablespoons butter, divided
1/4 teaspoon dried thyme
2 tablespoons diced green pepper
Salt & Pepper
1/4 cup chopped mushroom stems
2 tablespoons chopped onion
1/2 lb. large mushrooms, stems removed
3/4 cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoons cooked, crumbled bacon
2 small slices cheese (optional)
Method
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180C, Gas Mark 4).
2) Melt Butter in a Frying Pan.
3) Cook Onions, chopped mushrooms and Peppers in frying pan, until they begin to soften, then remove from heat.
4) Mix softened vegetables together with herbs, bacon and breadcrumbs.
5) Spoon into large Mushroom Cups
6) Place on lightly greased baking tray.
7) Drizzle rest of melted butter over Mushrooms. Season with salt and pepper.
cool Cover and cook in preheated oven for 35 minutes, sprinkle with
grated/sliced cheese (if required) and serve hot with Fairy Noodles and Crusty Bread.
Yield: About 1 dozen.
Lammas Fairy Noodles
Ingredients
2 hard boiled egg yolks
1 tablespoons orange flower water (optional)
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup sweet butter, softened
1/2 lb. noodles (any kind), cooked
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 teaspoon dried sweet basil
1 orange, sliced (garnish)
Method
1) Beat the egg yolks, sugar, butter, thyme, basil, and orange water in a small bowl until smooth.
2) Mix enough of the butter with the hot noodles to coat the noodles with a golden-yellow colour.
3) Garnish with orange slices.
4) Serve Hot with Stuffed Lammas Mushrooms (see above!) and fresh bread!http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/lammas.htm
Perfect Corn Bread
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons baking powder
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup yellow corn meal
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/4 cup shortening
Sift flour with sugar, baking powder, and salt; stir in cornmeal. Add eggs, milk, and shortening. Beat with rotary or electric beater till just smooth. (Do not overbeat.) Pour into greased 9x9x2 inch pan. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 to 25 minutes.
Corn Sticks: Spoon batter into greased corn-stick pans, filling 2/3 full. Bake in hot oven (425) 12 to 15 minutes. Makes 18. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/7039/AshlinCI.html
Lammas Berry Soup
A cool treat for a hot day
8 oz strawberries
8 oz raspberries
8 oz blackberries
8 oz blueberries
4 tablespoons sugar (more or less)
4 cups apple juice
Crushed ice
6 cups water
3 oz tapioca or sago
Bring water to boil and add sago/tapioca. Boil uncovered 7 minutes. Turn off heat, cover and leave for 10 minutes more. Rinse with cold water, strain and cool. Remove stems from berries, wash and drain. Save a few of each type berry, then puree then rest with sugar. Stir in apple juice, then add 1 cup tapioca/sago mixture. Cover and chill for at least 1 hour. Ladle into soup plates and serve with crushed ice (or ice cubes) and top with remaining whole berries.
http://www.jaguarmoon.org/public/Wheel/Lammas/Recipes.html**there are MANY recipes on this site**
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:15 pm
Lammas Activities/Crafts
~Honor the Grain Goddess is to make a corn doll. This is a fun project to do with kids. . She's your visual representation of the harvest. As you work on her, think about what you harvested this year. Give your corn dolly a name, perhaps one of the names of the Grain Goddess or one that symbolizes your personal harvest. Dress her in a skirt, apron and bonnet and give her a special place in your house. She is all yours till the spring when you will plant her with the new corn, returning to the Earth that which She has given to you. Make a corn dolly to save for next Imbolc.
~It is a season to throw away useless thoughts and habits and to form new ideas which bring renewed strength. Reflect on these topics alone in the privacy of your journal or share them with others around a fire.
~Lughnasad is one of the great Celtic fire-festivals, so if at all possible, have your feast around a bonfire.
~Have a magical picnic and break bread with friends.
~Do a meditation in which you visualize yourself completing a project you have already begun.
~Bake bread this is a grain festival! If you've never made bread before, this is a good time to startand there is ahelpful article here in the links.
Honor the source of the flour as you work with it: remember it was once a plant growing on the mother Earth. If you have a garden, add something you've harvested--herbs or onion or corn--to your bread. If you don't feel up to making wheat bread, make corn bread. Bake a sacred loaf bread and give a portion of it to Mother Earth with a prayer of appreciation.
~Make prayers for a good harvest season.
~Do prosperity magic.
~Kindle a Lammas fire with sacred wood and dried herbs.
~If you live in or near a farming region, attend a public harvest festival, such as a corn or apple festival.
~Decorate the altar and house with grains such as barley, oats and wheat -- also fruits and veggies.
~Begin gathering and drying herbs, flower, grains or seeds for spellworking in the next year.
~Make magickal oils now with fresh herbs.
~Braid onion and garlic charms. Onion is sacred to the sun -- because of its shape, and its dye is a golden amber to burnt apricot.When the onion is cut, it reveals the symbolism of the moon. Garlic, too, is sacred to the moon -- the crescent shape of the cloves. It exorcises evil and protects.
~Collect rain and storm water for use in spellwork or to empower objects, add dried mugwort and store in glass bottles.http://cronescottage2002.tripod.com/julylammas2002/id1.html
Potpourri Pie
http://cronescottage2002.tripod.com//sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/paint.jpg
This is both a decorative and a functional project. This pie REALLY appears to be a freshly baked pie when completed! The large quantity of potpourri gives it's aroma for a very long time. We feel you will enjoy having as well as making this "Potpourri Pie" It also make a great gift!
Supplies:
One aluminum foil pie pan
Two squares of tan craft felt
1/3 yard of pale pink net or tulle (optional)
Scissors
Glue gun
Any 1 quart size of dry potpourri in fruit or spice scent such as, apple, peach, cinnamon or a combination that you like.
White craft glue
Cinnamon spice in shaker
Small paint brush
Step 1
~Lay pie pan upside down on netting and trace a circle 1 Inch outside the pie pan border. Cut the netting on this line.
~Heap your favorite potpourri in the pie tin, then lay netting over it. Using your glue gun, tack netting to rim in at least 8 places. This will secure the netting to the pie tin and keep the potpourri in place.
Step 2
~Cut 2 strips, each 1 inch wide from long side of the tan felt. Then glue this strip to the rim of the pie plate.(over the netting)
~Pinch and ruffle as you glue to resemble pie crust edge. You may use all the felt strips, depending on how much you pinch and ruffle. If this happens cut more and continue around the edge until completed.
Step 3
~Next, cut 3/4 inch strips from long side of felt. Begin the lattice top for pie by laying first strip across middle of pie. Glue down both ends. Trim off any excess and save.
~Lay next lattice piece over top of first piece and perpendicular to first, and place off center by I inch. Then glue both ends down.
Step 4
~Lay next strip 1 inch over from first lattice strip that placed down and weave over and under lattice already in place.
~Do not glue.....It is easier to continue weaving and alternating lattice before tacking down the remaining strips. You may have to cut more strips.
Step 5
~Dip a wet paintbrush into thinned white craft glue and very lightly brush over lattice top and crust.
~While glue is wet, gently shake cinnamon over top to give the pie a "browned" appearance.
~Note razz lace your finished pie in a glass deep dish pie plate. Keep it on your stove top, the pilot light or oven vent will spread the delicious aroma.
Bread Dough Wreath
Equipment:
Mixing bowl; plastic wrap; cookie sheet; aluminum foil; rolling pin; toothpicks; fork; knife; wire rack; paintbrush for varnish or shellac.
Materials:
Bread dough recipe below; whole cloves; varnish or shellac; epoxy cement.
Bread Dough Recipe:
4 cups flour
1 cup salt
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 tsp. instant tea (heaping).
Mix the flour and salt together. To the 1 1/2 cups warm water, add 1 heaping teaspoon of plain instant tea. Dissolve well; let cool. Add liquid tea to flour mixture; mix very well with hands. Knead until smooth. Roll into ball; cover with plastic wrap.
Directions:
Cover cookie sheet with aluminum foil. Preheat oven to 300° F.
Pinch off a large piece of dough; roll into a long sausage shape, then shape into a circle on cookie sheet. Wet ends and press together. Circle may be any size you desire, but keep in mind how much dough you have left with which to add ornamentation. Our wreath, without decorations, has approximately an 8" outer diameter with a 5" diameter center opening, and is about 1/2" thick.
To decorate wreath, pinch off pieces of dough and roll out with rolling pin or flatten with hands to about 1/4" thickness. Cut out leaf shapes with knife. Score each leaf with knife to mark the vein lines. Moisten back of each leaf with a little water; press on wreath. Make the largest fruit next (apples, pears, peaches). Press whole cloves into dough for stems and core ends of fruit: for stems of apples and pears, push clove bud into dough, leaving the stem end out; for the core ends of fruit, press in the stem end of the clove, exposing just the bud from which the ball of clove has been removed. Wet the wreath circle and attach the fruit pieces. Fill in spaces with clusters of grape, strawberry, nut, and a few plum shapes. Imprint texture and lines with toothpick or fork.
To make bow, roll out dough to 1/4" thickness; cut a long strip (20" x 24") about 1 1/4" wide. Fold and pinch strip into bow; cut away ends as illustrated. Place bow separately on foil-covered cookie sheet.
Bake wreath and bow in preheated 300° F. oven for 3 hours or until completely dry and hard (if bow is done before wreath, tear foil and remove bow from oven). Place on wire rack and let cool. Peel off foil. Leave on rack for several days in dry place.
Coat wreath and bow separately with varnish or shellac. When dry, cement bow to wreath, using epoxy cement as directed on package.http://cronescottage2002.tripod.com/julylammas2002/id4.html**there are couple other crafts on this site that are good**
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Posted: Fri Jun 22, 2007 10:16 pm
Lammas Chants/Prayers/Blessings
A Harvests Call
I Dreamt I was strolling in the evening, underneath the Harvest Moon,
I was thinking about You, and how to find You,
I didn’t know what else to do,
So I strung my bow and aimed it at the Moon,
I called Your name.
Then I saw the Shadows of Old in the Moonlight,
And there you were, standing tall!
The stars were shinning in Your eyes,
My Goddess, is it really You after all this time?
How many decades is it Breagha?
‘Too many my Child’, You replied,
‘Come, we have work to do!
A Harvests Call
I Dreamt I was strolling ‘neath the Harvest Moon,
Her evening light dispelling the early Gloom,
I felt a calling within my heart,
From one once close, but now far apart,
So I strung my bow and aimed it true,
And as of old I called to You.
Thence I saw Shadows in the Moonlight,
Those once strong, returned again with all their Might!
Beside them You stood, tall and true,
A presence here once more, a vow to renew,
The stars were shinning in Your eyes,
Reward enough for those willing to try!
‘My Goddess, is it really You after all this time?’
‘Returned to glory, once more to Shine!’
‘How many decades has it been?’
‘Since last your presence was so clearly seen?’
‘Too many my Child’, answered You,
‘Come, tis time, we have work to do! http://homepage.ntlworld.com/spiritwolf/lammas.htm
A Chant for Lammas
Start the chant in a whisper, growing louder as the chant progresses.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust,
We shall go as we can and do as we must.
The body may die but the Spirit is free
To do greater wonders, so mote it be.
Ashes to ashes, clay to clay,
We shall seek for our center and find our own way.
The flesh may be blind but the Spirit can see,
The gods within all, so mote it be.
Ashes to ashes, sand to sand,
We will use all our talents to heal our great land.
The flesh may be weak, but the Spirit's in me
Is full with her blessings, so mote it be. http://www.web-holidays.com/lammas/articles/a2.htm
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