New Year
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SecretSilence
New Year
I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I was wondering if someone could explain to me why Samhain is considered by Pagans to be the "new year". It seems to make more sense to me for the new year to begin in spring when everything in nature is being renewed and reborn... just curious.
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AutumnMaidens
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Re: New Year
It has to do with the celtic calender and the fact that this is the time when the sun god dies, since for kelts the new day started in the night of the day before they thought that the new year would start from darkness as well. So at the start of winter when the days would be shorter and nights would be longer they saw this as the beginning of something new.
Hope that helped
Bless
Hope that helped
Bless
"If you take a copy of the Christian Bible and put it out in the wind and the rain,
soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone.
Our bible IS the wind and the rain."
soon the paper on which the words are printed will disintegrate and the words will be gone.
Our bible IS the wind and the rain."
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SecretSilence
Re: New Year
Ohh, okay, that makes more sense, I guess.
Thanks for your reply, and I wish you a blessed Ostara!
Thanks for your reply, and I wish you a blessed Ostara!