Hallowed Evening

yes, hello:
Hallowe'e'n really means Hallowed Evening without the apostrophies.
It was originally on the Julian Calendar, perhaps from Julius Caesar. Julian Orthodox Christians use this calendar, but only a 13 day difference from the Gregorian Calendar, which most use. There is also a 54 year difference, seldom used.
Nov. 1 is All Saints Day.
Hallowed Evening was originally for a good deed for attempting to be a saint on the morning after the evening before.

I generally just leave flaming bags of shit on my neighbor's porch.

party pooper

get it?

breno wrote:

> I generally just leave flaming bags of shit on my neighbor's
> porch.


pffffft, if i left a flaming bag of shit on one of my neighbors' porches, they'd just bring it inside and try to raise it as one of their own...

i lock it up tight on the hallowed eve.

The Flaming Bags of Shit just covered Joy Division when I saw them open for Interpol.

Funny someone would mention this subject, a personal favorite...

The Halloween we know is not the Caesarian holiday.
Oct 31st (or approx.) simply marked the date when Western European pagans gathered to help each other select the stock animals who would not survive the winter, dispatch them, and prep them. It was food oriented because crops had been gathered and now there was meat to go with it that must be consumed before spoilage. It also concided with Mead/Ale readiness so, it would likely have been a village consumption party.

When xtianity achieved mass propulsion in western Europe, the event was Catholicized (like all Judaic & Pagan holidays) as 'All Saints/Hallowed Day'. This is still achieved in part by claims of "animal sacrifice".

Because country folk still had need for the events of harvest storage and stock reduction, post-Holy Romanization, Hallow Eve remained just as popular as Hallowed Day and that is how it has survived to this day. And, depending how you choose to observe it, it can be acknowledged as a nod to ancient ways that still survive somewhat, got us where we are today, and passed the religio-political culture gauntlet.

Halloween as viewed and practiced by mainstream America is mostly UK in origins (practiced similarly in Ireland, Australia to some xtent and Canada) yet certain practices are uniquely American. Trick-or-Treating, for example, comes from Portland Oregon ca. 1930s.

my wife almost had a caesarian but it was no fccing holiday

now that i have the martian martini, recently turning 4, halloween is a BFD all of a suden, but as with scratch_mykel it was one of the daze i refused to go out driving, preferring not to be slaughtered on a side street by a bunch of frat boyzz dressed up as darth vader and aunt jemima

the other 3 days i hunker down, feqrful of rabble or unable to zig zag through the dolor?

1. New year's eve
2. may 4th
3. halloween
4. When Bullitt gets shown on AMC

np
John Fahey
Live at Record Planet boot
8/9/73


btw the martian is going to be superman today; he's pretty gd funny when i yell: "Show me your muscles, little man!"

I live in Salem, MA, which is Halloween Central, and I think that Halloween is the most useless holiday, along w/Valentine's Day

Samhain is the word for November in the Irish language. The Scottish Gaelic spelling is Samhuinn. The same word was used for a month in the Celtic calendar, in particular the first three nights of this month, with the festival marking the end of the summer season and the end of the harvest. A modernized version of this festival continues today in some of the traditions of the Christian All Souls' Day, the secular Halloween, and in folk practices of Samhain itself in the Celtic Nations and the Irish and Scottish diasporas. The name is also used for one of the sabbat feasts in the Wiccan wheel of the year.