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This is a high-quality canvas print of the Wiccan Wheel of the year sabbat, Lammas / Lughnasadh. The print is professionally stretched and ready to hang. It comes from an original oil painting with is 76 x 61 cm.

❤ Acid-free, PH-neutral, poly-cotton base
❤ 20.5 mil (0.5 mm) thick poly-cotton blend canvas
❤ Canvas fabric weight: 13.9 oz/yd2(470 g/m²)
❤ Fade-resistant
❤ Hand-stretched over solid wood stretcher bars
❤ Matte finish coating
❤ 1.5″ (3.81 cm) deep
❤ Mounting brackets included

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Other types of reproductions of this Lammas oil painting are also available from this Etsy store as A3, A4 and A5 Giclee art prints on 350 g card, plus greeting cards.

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LUGHNASADH AND LAMMAS: SOME KEY POINTS:

Lammas Day (Anglo-Saxon half-mas, "loaf-mass") was initially a holiday celebrated in some English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere. It is a festival to mark the annual wheat harvest, and is the first harvest festival of the year. On this day it was customary to bring to church a loaf made from the new crop, which began to be harvested at Lammastide, which falls at the halfway point between the summer Solstice and Autumn September Equinox.
The loaf was blessed and in Anglo-Saxon England it might be employed afterwards in protective rituals.

In many parts of England, tenants were bound to present freshly harvested wheat to their landlords on or before the first day of August. In the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, where it is referred to regularly, it is called "the feast of first fruits". The blessing of first fruits was performed annually in both the Eastern and Western Churches on the first or the sixth of August (the latter being the feast of the Transfiguration of Christ).

Lughnasadh or Lughnasa is traditionally a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season. Historically is was widely observed and celebrated throughout Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man. It corresponds to other European harvest festivals such as the Welsh Gwyl Awst and the English Lammas.

The festival is named after the God Lugh. It involved great gatherings that included religious ceremonies, ritual athletic contests (most notably the Tailteann Games), feasting, matchmaking and trading.

Lughnasadh customs persisted widely until the 20th century, with the event being variously named 'Garland Sunday', 'Bilberry Sunday', 'Mountain retailer Sunday' and 'Crom Dubh Sunday'. The custom of climbing hills and mountains at Lughnasadh has survived in some areas, although it has been re-cast as a Christian pilgrimage. The best known is the 'Reek Sunday' pilgrimage to the top of Croagh Patrick on the last Sunday in July. A number of fairs are also believed to be survivals of Lughnasadh, for example the Puck Fair. Since the late 20th century, Celtic neopagans have observed Lughnasadh, or something based on it, as a religious holiday. In some places, elements of the festival have been revived as a cultural event.