SC - blood and gooses

[Stefan li Rous]

In a message dated 12/30/1999 1:35:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
lmt_inpnw at hotmail.com writes:

<< 
 Does anyone know how (and what time of year) New Year's was celebrated 
 foodwise in period?  >>

I don't know when Christians celebrated the New Year, but many European Pagan 
cultures celebrated it at Samhain, usually the last full Moon of the Harvest 
season, the night the Old God died or at Winter solstice, at the birth of the 
New God, or at Beltane, at the burgeoning of Spring..  For Jews, it has been 
Rosh HaShanna for centuries,. Other religions and other cultures celebrated 
it at different times for different reasons.  Even today it is 
Euro-Christian-centric to say that January 1 is THE first day of the new 
year.  

Mordonna the Cook,
SunDragon's Western Reaches
Atenveldt
(m.k.a. Buckeye, AZ)
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