Wheel of the Year
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 Painted Wheel of the Year from the Museum of Witchcraft , Boscastle. |
The Wheel of the Year is a modern Pagan term for the annual cycle of the Earth's seasons. It consists of eight festivals, spaced at approximately even intervals throughout the year. These festivals are often referred to as Sabbats . While the term Sabbat originated from Judaism and is of Hebrew origin, the festivals themselves have historical origins in Celtic and Germanic pre-Christian feasts, and the Wheel of the Year, as has developed in modern Paganism and Wicca, is really a combination of the two cultures' solstice and equinox celebrations. When melded together, the two European Festival Cycles merge to form eight festivals in modern renderings. Together, these festivals are understood by some neo-pagans to be the Bronze Age religious festivals of Europe. As with all cultures' use of festivals and traditions, these festivals have been utilized by European cultures in both the pre- and post-Christian eras as traditional times for the community to celebrate the planting and harvest seasons. The Wheel of the Year has been important to many people both ancient and modern, from various religious as well as cultural and secular viewpoints.
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- Related: Celtic calendar
| Seasons (astronomically) Seasons (astronomically) archaeoastronomy.com/seasons.html - Web |
| About the Sabbats About the Sabbats www.draknet.com/proteus/sabbats.htm - Web |
| The Eightfold Wheel The Eightfold Wheel www.manygods.org.uk/articles/festivals/wheel.shtml - Web |
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