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Introduces celebrations of the harvest and describes the traditions and festivities held for these holidays throughout the world.
Harvest Festival is celebrated in the autumn. This book helps children to learn about harvest festivals and shows how we celebrate it.
This series looks at the different ways people around the world celebrate their special days. Each text includes quotes from children explaining why the day is special to them. This title focuses on Harvest festivals.
In the good old days, the harvest festivals began in August (Lunasa - ‘beginning of harvest’) followed by September (Meán Fómhair) and October (Deireadh Fómhair) - translated as ‘middle of harvest’ and ‘end of harvest’ respectively. Harvest was one of the most sacred times of the pagan year and the Harvest Home or ‘in-gathering’ was a community observance at the end of the harvest to celebrate and give thanks for the bounty. Celebrating the harvest is still the holiest time of the Craft year and Lammas celebrates the coming of harvest-tide with its decoration of corn sheaves, fancy loaves, berries and fruits - all leading up to the Autumnal Equinox (or Michaelmas) that marked its zenith with the eating of the traditional goose and the raucous festivities of the community harvest suppers and country fairs.
Learn about how different people from around the world celebrate their harvest.
Describes the festivals and holidays celebrated by various cultures around the world at the autumn equinox or harvest time.
Discusses why and how people of the Christian and Jewish faiths celebrate harvest, touching on such elements as the variety of produce available and the concept of sharing.
Describes some of the cultural, religious and national holidays and other observances celebrated in different countries and by different cultures around the world.
This series concentrates on Bank Holidays and special days of secular origin, emphasising the idea of a multicultural Britain, where all members of a community - regardless of culture or religious belief - can join in to celebrate special days.
This is no mere academic study of the Feasts. It throbs with life, stirring the conscience of the reader as well as instructing his mind. Here is a thoughtful, reverent work that plumbs the depth of the reader's heart as it plumbs the depths of Scripture.