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| A walk in the countryside |
What happened to the First day of Spring? Why do they
change things? I wanted to write about
the first day of Spring, March 21 and found my traditional day is not quite the
same. The day moves. Okay. I can
understand some government bureaucrat said let’s do it different and screw
everything up.
So I did a little research. Every culture has the celebration of Spring
around the spring solstice. From Aztec to
Egyptian, stone calenders were set to highlight the sun on certain days of the
year. The spring solstice was prominent. Look at the remains of Stonehenge or
the monuments on Easter Island.
Going back several thousand years, we find the
Celtic Lá na Féile Bríde, or the “Festival
of Saint Bridget”, in Manx as Laán Arragh (Day of Spring), and as
Candlemas or Bridget’s Day in English. Brighid, Bride or Bridget is yet
another Pagan deity turned by the Christians into a “saint,” in order to co-opt
Her worship. This
goddess was a triple-faced deity, originally a Sun and Fire Goddess, of
Poetry/Divination, Healing and Smith-craft, whose followers kept an eternal
flame burning in Her honor. Note that as Brighid, a Druid and Celtic entity,
Her three aspects are all the same age as each other, not the
“Mother-Maiden-Crone” trinity.
Interesting is that St Bridget’s Day is the celebration of the lambing and lactation of the ewes, a basic source of food and clothing. The occasion of the birth of lambs (not to mention kids and calves) was a cause for rejoicing and a sign of life in the “dead” world of a Northern winter. Probably why we eat roast lamb on Easter.
This leaves me with my original question why change it?
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