Summer Solstice Celebrations – Midsummer In The Celtic Lands
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- | When Christianity came to Great Britain, the focus of the midsummer celebrations became the feast of St John the Baptist | + | When Christianity came to Great Britain, the focus of the midsummer celebrations became the feast of St John the Baptist on top of the 24th of June. Most saint’s days mark the anniversary of their deaths, fairly time and again as martyrs, other than unusually the feast of St John the Baptist celebrates his alleged birthday, rather apt as the Summer Solstice represents fertility and new first phase, not bereavement and endings. Inside some parts of Britain, the usual Midsummer Bonfires are unmoving lit. The Old Cornwall Society revitalized the custom in the early 20th century and bonfires are currently lit all year lying on a quantity of of the Cornish hills. Inside Penzance, a weeklong festival called ‘Golowan’ starts on the Friday contiguous to St John’s Day and culminates in Mazey Day when bonfires are lit and fireworks light out of bed the skies. During the Scottish Borders, the town of Peebles holds a Beltane Week, and in Wales a folk-dancing festival is apprehended in Cardiff on the feast of St John.<br><br>So what are you going to do to celebrate the longest daylight of the year? Build a bonfire and allow rotten a quantity of fireworks to celebrate the life-giving warmness of the Sun and the abundance of the Earth. It is a day to create requirements, cast spells and have your future divined. Just close your eyes and picture what Midsummer night was like in Great Britain a thousand being previously, with hundreds of bonfires lighting up and about the summer sky as of the north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. So enjoy, as the Summer Solstice is immobile a day designed for feasting, dancing and celebrations.<br>Best Regards - [http://midsummerxx.co.uk/ http://midsummerxx.co.uk/] - m1dsumm3rxx |