|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:10 pm
Ah thank you. But um one question as Ive seen this all over this forum what is YVHV? So what is everyone gonna do for Mabon? (thats next right? I know the holidays just not the order)
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 4:16 pm
Zslone2 Ah thank you. But um one question as Ive seen this all over this forum what is YVHV? YHWH (also YHVH, Yahweh, Jehovah) is the name of the god of Abraham, worshipped by Jews, Christians and Muslims. Hebrew doesn't really have vowels, so YHWH ("the Tetragrammaton", as those four letters are known) is the best we have as to his name. The actual pronunciation has been lost as the Jews tried not to speak it aloud outside of the Temple.... which was destroyed long ago. So it wasn't spoken and we don't know how it was said. Quote: So what is everyone gonna do for Mabon? (thats next right? I know the holidays just not the order) Yes, the equinox (autumnal or vernal for us in the southern hemisphere) is the next holiday. Different religions will call it different things, and some Pagans don't celebrate it.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:23 pm
If I celebrated the holidays, I'd just go with the season and whatever I feel matches. I don't have a deity or anything to follow..
And I don't have a clue what I'm supposed to do for Mabon. I have an idea for Halloween though. (I know it's Samhain, but Halloween's easier for me to remember how to spell and say.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2009 8:55 pm
In general Mabon is usually the neo-pagan "Thanksgiving". It's the 2nd harvest festival, so feasting is always a good way to celebrate. If you celebrate on the actual equinox, it's also a good day for balancing type rituals.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2009 11:45 am
Cool thanks for the ideas. I read about how some other people practiced Mabon and what they did so I've adopted some of the ideas but Mabon and Samhain are basically the only holidays i can celebrate although i don't stay home from school. So eat drink and be merry basically for this one?
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 8:39 am
heart You know, it's funny that I'm not sure if I'm a pagan or not. I just listen to the voice in my heart concerning matters most dear to me. I do pray, but many times that prayer is similar to meditation... or maybe it is meditation.
I just don't look for outside terms, because everything I need is already defined. To me there is Love, and God is Love as I have come to know it in my heart. But even that is just a name given for name's sake.
Because this voice answers me... I believe that it listens. And I feel that whatever or whosoever it is... loves every one of us. When I read the Bible, it only confirmed that which I carry in my heart. But it was never necessary for that reason, because it was already there. And I have known many great and beautiful people who have walked many diferent paths in life, albeit Buddhist, Witch and Atheist. And when I ask the voice in my heart if it loves them as well... the answer I hear is undoubtedly, "yes."
To me, everyone is a father, a brother, a mother, or a sister. No matter your faith, or belief structure in life, we all have the same choices to make.
And to heaven or hell; to the afterlife or to the void... or perhaps to nothing after all.
I can only say, that given this life that I have, I will choose to live in love and follow wheresoever it takes me without regret. heart
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2012 9:55 am
I have seen that and its not right (I'm not saying it to you it's general) because pagans have shaped human history. The Greeks were pagan and they created the first forms of cleanliness and hygiene, the Romans improved hygiene and when they converted to Christianity and Rome fell, it left the countries they have conquered, (Spain, Portugal, England, some of Germany, France) Christian. If these specific pagans didn't exist, who knows what the world would be like. And there are actually even more pagans, I just don't want to get to detailed
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Reply
