Halloween - who is and why

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Where did the tradition of celebrating Halloween come from and why.

A harmless tradition? Christian holiday of All Saints? Reason to take on the chest? A tribute to the past? Or an energy rift that allows you to voluntarily and even joyfully give well, if only a part of your energy to entities, the nature of which not everyone understands? Judge for yourself.

All the so-called "holidays", be it New Years, Christmas, May 1, Halloween, March 8, etc. etc. - this is always (!) Not what it seems to the layman. Their appearance, reasons, and most importantly - the consequences are partially hidden, partially simply not advertised. After all, why, as they say, spoil the holiday for people? Let them rejoice. But let them not be surprised later: why is the mortality rate so sharply increased, what happened to our children - they are so nervous and rude, oh, suicide again, poor thing, but I could still live and live …

Experience teaches that there are several reasons for any event and phenomenon. Therefore, you need to see what is happening in a complex. If you do not know, for example, that in the summer of 2010, due to the overproduction of wheat in the United States, prices for it began to fall catastrophically, and after the fires in Russia, when all of Moscow was suffocating in gauze bandages, a tiny note appeared on the Internet that farmers finally sighed calmly, since prices have returned to normal, then one can sacredly believe in the generally recognized (and Wikipedia, of course, also) reason, they say, natural fires, panimash …

But in order to connect the points into a line, and the line into an understandable drawing, you need to see these points first. Halloween is one of them, and quite bold at that.

The following is known for certain: the day of November 1 is considered the beginning of the Celtic New Year.

The Celts, as you probably know, long before our era (although today it is not so obvious when exactly it began) lived in the territories of what is now northern France, Germany, England, Scotland and Ireland (then still quite united due to the lack of Christianity and the ESSR, i.e. the European Union). And they had priests, forest brothers, druids. They say that there are druids today, but I personally have a lot of doubts about their competence, because it is believed that the then druids did not write down their knowledge, but passed it on from generation to generation by oral means. Of course, one can believe in the nonsense that a certain blind Greek Homer remembered many thousands of pages of the Iliad and Odyssey by heart, and his listeners possessed such a fantastic memory that many centuries after his death they were able to write it all down and publish it in two thick tomes, but it is unlikely that the current "priests" really own the original, and not reinvented knowledge. This is none of our business and certainly not the topic of this short opus.

Let's continue.

Celebration of the coming of the new year began among the Celts at sunset on October 31 and ended in the same way at sunset - on November 1. Why at this particular time? Because the harvest was over, the light and joyful time was coming to an end, and winter was coming - the dark half of the year. This holiday was called Samhain, which is not read at all Samhain or Samhain, but very much even Savin or Saun. And he referred to the so-called "threshold" dates when the world of our Reality comes into contact with the otherworldly world, which allows the inhabitants there, so to speak, fairies, to penetrate from there to here. They, of course, need to be appeased so that they do not prevent people and livestock from surviving the winter.

What are Anglo-Saxon fairies is a separate topic. Our current misunderstanding of them can be illustrated by the example of the famous character of children's fairy tales - Peter Pan. Such a kind, cheerful and flying, forever young tomboy. Yes? Not really. Actually, in English his surname is spelled Pan, and Pan, as you certainly know, is a Greek forest god - with horns, a flute and on his hooves. Have you been rereading or revising Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka for a long time? Well, so this Pan (Peng) is there, and in our tradition - just a devil, he flew excellently and played pranks. Although it is believed that the Scottish writer James Barry invented Peter Pan, Gogol did not come up with his own farm devil for sure. I had to read in the bourgeois press that the prototype of today's Peter Pan was by no means so harmless, and that the original Peter Pan used his eternal knife purely against children. Agree, if in our time Nobel Peace Prizes are awarded for successful bombing of foreign countries, then the same “people” cannot erect bronze monuments (in London and Brussels) to a boy who really loved children …

We are distracted.

I have not just touched on the children's topic here. Read Irish poetry books such as Lebor Gabála Érenn (The Book of the Conquest of Ireland), and you will learn, in particular, that to appease the invading spirits from the Interworlds (they were called Fomorians, and were considered monsters from the water or from under land) people were forced to placate them with offerings. Grain, milk or … small children were used as sacrificial gifts. If you need fresher examples, remember the stupid fantasy saga "Game of Thrones", in which people are most afraid of Winter and the army of local Koschei the Immortal coming with it "from behind the Wall". There is no smoke without fire. More precisely, there is no ice without water …

So, on the one hand, the current tradition of dressing up as horror movies and going from house to house, begging for candy, is fun for someone, but its roots go back to a time when scaring away (or, conversely, attracting) evil (unambiguously) spirits was accompanied by putting on on themselves in their own disguises and going to the homes of neighbors (especially those with many children) to receive "living gifts".

As simply as the devilish Roman Saturnalia (in honor of the god Saturn, that is, Satan), passed into Christmas, the place of the ancient "holiday" of Savin was initially occupied by the victorious Romans with the help of their two holidays - Feralia and Pomona. They say the Romans took over the Celts and other inhabitants of Albion in 47 AD. And just like subsequent Christians, they decided that local holidays, albeit pagan, but certainly barbaric, and therefore illegal. Feralia was a holiday of the departed (already fun), and Pomona was called so in honor of the goddess of fruits and trees (pom-i-dor, as we heard, is a “golden apple”, but about apples - a little later).

Having spent hundreds of years in Albion (almost four, if you follow the conclusions of historians) and have achieved nothing there, except for the opportunity for the descendants of the conquered local tribes to proudly look for the pitiful ruins of former fortifications and proudly (why?) Tell tourists that they were left The Romans themselves (damn it, people, they beat you, what to be proud of ?!), the legionnaires, they say, returned to their native Italian penates and appeared in the British land only many centuries later in the guise of now Christian knights, carrying, like their followers today, death for the sake of peace.

Probably, the Christian peacekeepers found Savin in the form in which he was before the Romans (after all, the tradition never disappears as easily as someone wants), and therefore they decided to lay their blessed hand on him, and Pope Gregory III (this is already as if the VIII century A. D.) commanded to consider that on the border of October and November should celebrate the day of all saints, i.e. dead (All Saints Day). The original English synonym for “saint” was hallow, so the holiday in the then Old English was called Alholowmasse, which today is written as All-Hallowmas or simply All-hallows. “Eve” in English is Eve (by the way, the name Eve is written with the same hieroglyph), so the eve of the holiday turned out to be All-hallows Eve, from where, as experts believe, is a stone's throw to modern Halloween.

I think many of you have long understood everything and made the appropriate conclusions. It remains for me to tell you where the tradition of carving creepy pumpkin heads for Halloween and lighting candles in them came from. By the way, looking at such a pumpkin, I catch myself thinking that if such a “holiday” was introduced in Russia, it would probably be dubbed something like Golovin …

Or simply - Kolobok.

So, it turns out, they began to spoil vegetables and put burning coals in them back in the time of the original Savin. Moreover, as usual, it is not completely clear whether in this way the evil spirits were frightened away, or attracted, pointing the way in the night. The pumpkin became a victim only at the beginning of the 20th century (although some sources indicate the exact year - 1837) and even then thanks to the transfer of Halloween to the New World, where it grows everywhere. In the Old World, they preferred to cut potatoes (when there was one, which often did not happen, and then famine set in) or a turnip. And what is the name of the pumpkin muzzle today? No, not Facebook. It is called Jack O'Lanterns or in our language - Jack's Lamp.

In general, you need to know that in the British land what and whoever was called Jack. Even the most indecent things. Something like Ivan or Abram in other traditions. So, according to the Irish legend, Jack was an ordinary drunkard (of which there are more and more in the present ESSR), and he literally "drank himself to hell", because once in a pub, the devil himself sat down at his table (in the sense of Pan, in In the sense of the aged Peter Pan, in the sense of Saturn, Satan, in short, the Devil), and then Jack behaved like a real FAC (Puss in Boots). Since the money ran out, he offered the devil to turn into a coin in order to pay off for a new statement. When the gullible devil obeyed, Jack put it in his pocket, where he had a silver cross. As a result, the devil was trapped, and Jack did not allow him to return to his previous appearance until he promised not to bother him again for a year. The next time Jack offered the devil to climb onto the apple tree (remember?) And managed to carve a cross on the trunk, than he again locked the gullible devil. This time, he took an oath from the goat-footed not to take Jack's soul to hell when he introduced himself, and only then allowed him to get down. In the end, Jack drank himself safely and died. Of course, they didn’t take him to paradise. The devil also turned out to be honest and kept his word, not letting Jack's soul into hell. The poor man had only to wander in the Interworld in the eternal search for a haven. And so that he was not so bored, the Devil, at parting, threw him coals from the inferno. Jack deftly caught them in a carved turnip and thus got a lamp …

As they used to say in the old days, a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it. I brought the medicine, put it right here, on a pebble, and whether to take it or not is purely yours.

Good luck!