[Sca-cooks] Bread recipe request (OOP)

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

> >Michaelmas, September 29th, is at the end of the grain harvest. I was
> >under the impression that Lughnassad was in the same time frame as Lammas,
> >the beginning of August and thus the beginning of the grain harvest...?
>
> I am considering this more in the mythology of the particular beings rather
> than by dates.

That makes sense.

> Most people also fail to take into account that the change from the Julian
> to Gregorian calendar created a shift of ten days in the calendar and that
> when England adopted the Gregorian calendar the shift was 11 days.
>
> BTW, under the Julian calendar, the presumed date of Lughnassad falls more
> closely to the Feast of the Assumption (Aug. 15) than to Lammas.

Yeah. :) So where did Loafmass come from? Or is that a separate holiday,
and is the connection between Lughnassad and the first-fruits a modern
neopagan convention?

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