[Tempio] October History....inspiration for Samhain Stew

Dave Jordan wulfgar at hot.rr.com
Wed Jul 9 15:57:49 PDT 2003


A small clarification, if you will allow:

The Samhain Stew event will have three categories in the cooking event.
(There will be fighting and other competitions, too!)

(1) will be 'Stone Soup' - no ingredients that you bring may be put into
YOUR stone soup - you must trade or barter for the ingredients you use.

(2) will be any 'documented period recipe' cooked on-site

(3) will be a free-for-all make any dish you wish (roast, stew, soup,
bread, cake, cobbler, whatever you can dream up) and prepare on site.
Anyone care to do a stir-fry, or maybe fajitas, or perhaps
jaeger-schnitzel or stroganoff?

The prizes will include, but not be limited to, a hand-made campfire
cooking tripod, a hand-made roasting spit set, several cast iron dutch
ovens and maybe some fireside cooking utensils.

Hope you all plan to attend, compete and enjoy yourselves and the
fellowship of all the other participants!

In Service to the Dream,

Wulfgar von Regensburg

   <mailto:Iwulfgar at hot.rr.com> wulfgar at hot.rr.com


-----Original Message-----
From: tempio-bounces at ansteorra.org [mailto:tempio-bounces at ansteorra.org]
On Behalf Of Tressa
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 14:01
To: tempio at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Tempio] October History....inspiration for Samhain Stew


Hey, all

Since I'm helping to autocrat Samhain Stew, I thought
I'd get some creative juices flowing for you guys.
Remember, this year we're having the stone soup,
regular stew, and a free for all period recipe
competitions!

Tressa

Samhain, pronounced sow-en is the ending of the Celtic
year. The Celtic new year actually begins at sunset on
October 31. This ritual is known as Ancestor Night or
Feast of the Dead. Because the veil between the worlds
is thinnest on this night, it was and is considered an excellent time
for divinations. Feasts are made in
remembrance of dead ancestors and as an affirmation of continuing life.
A time for settling problems,throwing out old ideas and influences. This
is either elebrated October 31, or the first Full Moon in Scorpio.
Ancient Rome had a day of feasting in October known as the Jejunium
Cereris was observed in honor of Ceres (Mother Earth), the corn-goddess
and protectress of agriculture and all fruits of the Earth. They also
had had a festival honoring the goddess Pomona who ruled fruits and
gardens. The Romans pictured her as a beautiful maiden,her arms filled
with fruit and a crown of apples on her head. When
Rome conquered the Gauls, Celts who lived in Northern
France were influenced by the Romans, that is how
these two customs blended and the result was a great
fall holiday that mixed the different aspects
together.
Vikings - At Vetrarblot, which took place after the
harvest in mid-October, animals were sacrificed for a
good winter. The Vikings loved celebrations and
parties. Tri-annually, the Vikings had big feasts or
holidays.
In Russia Mokos was the Goddess of the earth
worshipped by the ancient Slavs; one of the most
primeval deities in the pagan Slavic pantheon. She was
first and foremost a symbol of the earth's fertility.
Holidays were dedicated to her in the autumn, after
the harvest. Over time, Mokos became a patron of
women, especially those bearing children or giving
birth. Some groups, such as the Czechs, invoked her
name in times of drought. The strength of her cult
remained substantial, even after the Christianization
of the Slavs; as late as the 17th century, Orthodox
priests attempted to uncover Mokos-worshippers among
the peasantry, asking women whether or not they had
"gone to Mokos." In Russia, Mokos was partially
absorbed into Orthodox worship, in the guise of St. Paraskeva-Piatnitsa
("Paraskeva-Friday"), whose name day fell in late October, around the
time of Mokos's former harvest celebration. Gaul (Germany)- Martinstag
(really on November 11th) Since the end of the 4th century, Christian
communities in Gaul have been preparing their new members for baptism in
a preparation time in which they fasted. At St. Martin`s eve, people ate
and drank very well for a last time before they started to fast. This
fasting time was the forerunner of the today known advent.
Also in Germany, in the fifteenth century, peasants
celebrated a week-long festival called the Kermesse. A
Pagan icon (or some other sacred object) would be
unearthed from its yearlong burial spot and then
paraded through the village on top of gaily decorated
pole. After a week of feasting, dancing, and games,
the villagers would dress up in their mourning attire
and rebury the icon in its grave, where it would
remain until the next year's Kermesse.
In October an annual nine-day religious festival
begins in Nepal to honor the great Hindu god Vishnu
and to celebrate his awakening on a bed of serpents.
As part of an ancient tradition, secret offerings
are made to the god and placed in unripe pumpkins.
October 25 - Shoemaker's Day is celebrated annually on

this date in honor of Saint Crispin, the patron of
shoemakers who was beheaded in the third century A.D.
According to legend, a new pair of shoes bought on
this day will bring good luck and prosperity to their
owner.
In Cornwall, England and the ancient English market
town of St Ives, Allan Apple Day was celebrated at the
end of October with the ancient custom of providing
children with a large apple on this eve of "Allan-
day" as it is called, to this day. It is a great
misfortune to the children to go to bed on
"Allan-night" without the ancient custom of hiding a
Allan apple beneath their pillows. Great amounts of
apples
were sold for this holiday's custom in the markets,
thus the term Allan Market begin.




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