Samhain | And The Pagan Origins of Halloween 🎃

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[@Blaze2wild]

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[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

Best wishes to you 🙏🏼

[@Blaze2wild]

@@TheWisdomOfOdin Until the hall!

[@sarahhunter1114]

Blessings be, brothers and sisters❤️

[@kev1734]

Thanks Jacob 🥰🎃

[@MsJantine]

Happy Samhain 🎃

[@jakeodriscoll6593]

The Dagda and the Morrigan meet at the bed of the couple, said to be a Ford that leads to the river Unshin. The Dagda does however couples with Boann at Brú na Bóinne (Newgrande)

[@AlexandraLynch-b4v]

THANK YOU FOR THIS VID ❤

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

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[@zoewhiteart7676]

My favourite time of year! 💛🧡❤👍🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁👍❤🧡💛

[@PaganRyan29]

Happy almost Samhain

[@patricianiebergall1360]

Yayyyyy, Samhain!!!

[@cookiesontoast9981]

This will be my first time celebrating Samhain since I just recently became spiritual and discovered Pantheism, then Paganism, then Witchcraft and Chaos Magick over the last 4 months or so, before that I have always been straight Atheist for 25 years of life. But now I've unlocked my spirituality and I'm dabbling in all sorts of stuff I never thought possible before. It's been an exciting but also challenging journey of having to grasp the new ways of looking at things, since so much of things I love have been related to Pagan myths and things and I've never even known, and for example when watching some horror movies now I can't help but notice the very obvious fact that they were made by Christians with a very negative view on anything Pagan, like with the original 1979 Halloween film and some of the sequels have a strong emphasis on Samhain and focus so strongly on it being an "evil" thing where Michael Myers who's the embodiment of "evil" is related to etc... I just mention because it's been a process with things that I used to just think are fun and now I can't help but get a bit irritated with the fact that they're completely misunderstanding and misrepresenting things that in reality are very beautiful. ANYWAY this will be my first Samhain, and I was originally going to make a huge thing about it and have loads of fun but now I've found I've thought too hard about it haha and I think I'm just going to have a very quiet first Samhain, sat alone in the dark just thinking. Maybe cast a couple spells and things but for the most part just have a very quiet, slow, thoughtful night.

[@Dextamartijn]

This was a great video.Always learn something from you. This This video came out on Canadian Thanksgiving Monday. A great way to celebrate October and November, our great months, seeing the changes of the season. Greetings from Alberta Canada

[@MasterPoucksBestMan]

I read that there's some evidence that the traditional date for Samhain was timed by the Pleiades constellation, and that it's heliacal rising in the fall determined Samhain while it's helical setting determined Bealtainne. These days, the Pleiades heliacal rising occurs around Nov 21st, but back when the megaliths were being built, it occurred at the Autumn equinox. What better way to disseminate to the population when the equinox is when they don't live near a megalith than to tell them to look for a certain star cluster on the horizon at sunset when the equinox happens so the whole culture marks the festival at the same time all across the land... This would've put Samhain equivalent at the Autumn equinox, the Imbolc equivalent (when the light just returns) at the Winter solstice, the Bealtainne equivalent at the Spring equinox, and the Lughnasadh equivalent at the Summer solstice. Not that there were Gaels back then, but interesting speculation nonetheless.

[@ArchLingAdvNolan]

Sam is an Old Irish word for sun. Fuinn is an Old Irish word for end. Samhfuinn or Samhuinn is the sun's end.

[@cherihayward350]

Love this❤

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

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[@slynskey333]

Swap your pumpkins for turnips 😂

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

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[@garyharley3868]

Great video I really enjoyed it thank you and blessings to you

[@TheWisdomOfOdin]

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[@lynda7406]

So well said. Shun the commercialism.

[@elysiana8889]

It is just logical that these things as honoring the dead and extra service or attention to the ones who passed during the year have more attention now. People had to stay tuned and focused on producing for themself and or in later times for landlords. They had no time to make a big thing out of a death. When seasons turned and harvest was in there was more time for this.

[@breohtbrusmid489]

Uinterfylleð for me! 😌

[@isaacaccomando435]

What was the actual day that the celts celebrated Samhain on? Obviously it wasn't the 31st of October every year because they didn't have the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. They used a lunar calendar. Is there a formula to find it or do I just look for the new moon nearest to the crossquarter...?

[@stephenderks1209]

Conflating All Hallows Eve with pagan celebrations is disingenuous to both the pagan holiday and Christian holiday. Halloween (All Hallows Eve) and All Saints Day (All Hallows Day - Nov 1st) are purely Christian. The pagan holiday is purely pagan. The only connection would lie in people replacing the pagan celebration with the Christian on the capender purely due to convenience. But the celebrations themselves bear no common history. By calender I mean the general time, they didn't share a comman date as they originated from different cultures with different calenders. Also, most every source of info we have regarding pagan practices was written by Christians or, at the very least, after Christianity dominated the region. So any source that connects the two is likely making the pagan holiday more Haloweeny as opposed to the other way around.