[Sca-cooks] Bread recipe request (OOP)

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Actually, the mission to the British Isles had specific instructions from 
the pope at the time (I forget which, but I could probably dig it out if I 
had to, and Father Abelard might be able to get to the info faster) to 
overlay pagan holidays with Christian ones rather than try to eradicate 
the pagan ones altogether. So it's not all that surprising that Lammas has 
St. Peter's deliverance flopped atop it.

Margaret, once again finding a use for the useless religion major

On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Terry Decker wrote:

> Considering that the Christians were willing to co-opt rituals from anyone,
> in my opinion, it is very likely that Celtic pagan rituals got scattered
> temporally into the Christian religious calendar.  Lammas is a first-fruits
> thanksgiving, but it also celebrates St. Peter's deliverance from prison.
> That latter point makes me think the feast may have been in the Christian
> calendar before mugging a Celtic god for its harevest rites.  It might also
> be instructive to take a scholarly look at the worship of Ceres and Demeter.
> 
> To my eye, the Wiccan calendar is a lunar cycle overlaid on a solar year,
> which suggests that the dates (not necessarily the connection) are a
> neopagan convention derived from the Christian calendar.
> 
> Bear
> 
> 
> >>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?
> >
> >-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
> >"Somedays the struggle just gets tired..." -- Renee Senolges
>