Correspondences for Lughnasadh
- Also called Lammas, Lughnasa, Festival of Green Corn, Ceresalia, August Eve, Elembiuos, Feast of Cardenas
- Celebrated on the 2nd or 7th of August, depending on Tradition
- Cross Quarter Festival, falling between Midsummer and Mabon
- Lughnasadh is the time to�
- Celebrate the first harvest
- Honor the Sun God
- Traditional Incense: aloes, rose, sandalwood
- Traditional candle colors: orange, gold, and yellow
- Traditional gemstones: aventurine, citrine, peridot, sardonyx
- Traditional foods: homemade breads, barely cakes, nuts, wild berries, apples, rice, roasted lamb, berry pies, elderberry wine, meadowsweet tea
- Traditional herbs: acacia flowers, aloes, cornstalks, cyclamen, fenugreek, frankincense, heather, hollyhock, myrtle, oak leaves, sunflower, wheat
- Traditional animals: roosters and calves
- Attunement teas: alfalfa, corn silk, goldenseal
- Ritual oils: eucalyptus, corn, safflower
- Mythical creatures: phoenix, griffins, basilisk, centaurs, speaking skull
- Suggested decorations: All grains, grapes, heather, blackberries, sloe, crab apples, pears, corn, bread, wheat
- Suggested activities: baking bread, gathering the first fruits, astrology
- Taboos: not sharing food
- Goddesses of Lughnasadh:
- All Grain Goddesses
- All Livestock Goddesses
- All Mother Goddesses
- Alphito (Irish)
- Artemis (Greek)
- Ashnan (Sumerian)
- Bast (Egyptian)
- Bau (Egyptian)
- Cabria (Phoenician)
- Carmen (Italio-Iberian)
- Ceres (Roman)
- Changing Woman (Native American)
- Chicomecoatl (Aztec)
- The Corn Mothers (Native American)
- Damia (Greek)
- Demeter (Greek)
- Epona (pan-Celtic)
- The Fates (Greek)
- Frey (Norse)
- Gaia (Greek)
- Goddess of Mundus (Norse-Celtic)
- Guadalupe (Mexican)
- Habondia (German)
- Habondia (Italian)
- Hani-Yasu-NoKami (Japanese)
- Huruing Wuhti (Native American)
- Ishtar (Babylonian)
- Juno Augusta (Roman)
- Kait (Hittite)
- Kornjunfer (German)
- Libera (Roman)
- Mama Alpa (Incan)
- Marcia (Italian)
- Mawu (African)
- Morgay (English)
- The Morrigan (Irish)
- Nisaba (Chaldean)
- The Norns (Norse)
- Oddudua (African)
- Persephone (Greek)
- Pirua (South American)
- Po Ino Nogar (Cambodian)
- Qocha Mana (Hopi)
- Rainbow Serpent (Australian)
- Rhea (Greek)
- Rhiannon (Welsh)
- Robigo (Roman)
- Saning Sri (Japanese
- Selu (Cherokee)
- Taillte (Irish)
- Tailltiu (Welsh-Scottish)
- Tailtu (Irish)
- Tonantzin (Mexican)
- Tuaret (Egyptian)
- Uti Hiati (Pawnee)
- Yellow Land Earth Queen (Chinese)
- Zaramama (Peruvian)
- Zytniamatka (Teutonic)
- Gods of Lughnasadh:
- All Father Gods
- All Grain Gods
- All Livestock Gods
- Athtar
- Bes (Egyptian)
- Bran (Welsh)
- Cinteotl (Aztec)
- Dagon (Phoenician)
- Ebisu (Japanese)
- Ghanan (Mayan)
- Howtu (Chinese)
- Liber (Roman)
- Llew (Welsh)
- Lono (Polynesian)
- Lugh (Irish)
- Neper (Egyptian)
- Odin (Norse)
- Suggested chant (author unknown):
"Hoof and horn, hoof and horn.
All that dies shall be reborn.
Corn and grain, Corn and grain.
All that falls shall rise again."
- Lughnasadh Incense:
- 2 parts frankincense
- 1 part heather
- 1 part apple blossoms
- 1 pinch blackberry leaves
- A few drops each of:
- cypress oil
- oak moss oil
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My sources include, but are not confined to, the following works:
- Bereyl, Paul. The Master Book of Herbalism
- Cunningham, Scott. The Complete Book of Incense, Oils, and Brews.
- ------------------. Wicca: A Guide for the Solitary Practitioner.
- Dunwich, Gerina. Wicca Craft.
- Galenorn, Yasmine. Dancing with the Sun.
- K., Amber. Covencraft: Witchcraft for Three or More.
- McCoy, Edain. The Sabbats.
- Starhawk. The Spiral Dance.
- Stein, Diane. Casting the Circle: A Women�s Book of Ritual.
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