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Lady Day
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Lady Day It is now March ...the air is slowly and steadily warming the days getting steadily longer the sun getting higher in the sky....the ancients believed that this month was special because day and night length approached equality and then day surpassed night and kept going toward spring and summer. The ancients created<b> gods </font></b>and stories to explain this phenomenon....in Ireland and Scotland these stories revolved around the Gods Llew ( or Lugh) And Goronwy . Llew was the God of day and Goronwy was the Lord of Night and their lover the Earth Goddess in different guises At Yule (the Winter Solstice) the Earth Goddess is in these stories known as Lady Blodwedd and is the spouse of Lord Goronwy the Lord of Night ...however she is also pregnant and at Yule gives birth to the infant Llew ...in doing so she also transforms into the young Maiden who will later become Llew's spouse. Llew is at first weak as He is an infant but He grows swiftly and by late February he and what He represents (the Sun and Day Length) are almost strong enough to challenge Lord Goronwy. Lord Goronwy's strength has been steadily draining away since Llew's birth at Yule and now as the Vernal Equinox approaches his strength is equal to Llew's but he is an old man who no longer has the support of his spouse Blodwedd (she having transformed into the Maiden who now loves Llew) Now between them the Maiden and Llew formulate a plan to get rid of Lord Goronwy . They lure him into a meadow on the 21st day of March and then Llew springs up from behind a bush and slays Goronwy with a spear made of sunlight. Lord Lew and the Maiden celebrate by having wild sex (of course) during which she conceives Lord Llew's reincarnation to be born on the next Winter Solstice (which incidentally is 9 months exactly around the Calendar from the Vernal Equinox) the ancients knew that the Vernal Equinox meant that the promise of summer was directly ahead of them and fertility had returned to the Earth and celebrated accordingly honoring the Goddess and the God (Llew and the Maiden) with fertility rites celebrating the returning warmth and light and the victory for a time of the Light over the Dark When the Catholics reorganized the religious norms of Europe and the UK they co opted these stories into their own framework. Jesus was substituted for Llew and Satan for Goronwy and the story became one not about the movement of the Heavenly Bodies (earth and the sun) but about Good and Evil ...sin and atonement ...Jesus doesn't KILL Satan as Llew does to Goronwy but obtains a "victory" over Satan....and as a bonus grants immortality to Mankind as he obtains a victory over death as well The main ancient holiday for this time of the year was "Ostara" a celebration of the reawakening earth and fertility thereof which was celebrated on the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox with dancing and feasting and sex the Catholics changed the holday to Easter and made it a movable thing it is ... the FIRST SUNDAY after the FIRST FULL MOON after the Vernal Equinox so as to discourage pagan converts from celebrating a holiday that was not fully under their control and where Jesus had no place |
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