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   "Sidheseeker" wrote   
   > Searles O'Dubhain wrote:   
   >> "Sidheseeker"  wrote in message   
   >> news:1156267328.875427.320740@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   >> > Since Oct. 31st  is the date set for All Hallow's Eve   
   >> > by the church.. I was just thinking.. some time ago   
   >> > I read somewhere that prior ro rhat.. ir fell on rhe   
   >> > second full moon after the summer solstice..   
   >> > (and no.. I'm not going to look for the reference..)   
   >> > any other ideas..?   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> Samhain is when the Dagda meets the Morrigan at the River Unshin. It's   
   >> usually on the beginning of the Irish Month of Samhain which is roughly   
   >> around the modern month of November. If I were to look for stellar ways   
   >> to identify this month I'd look to the Pleiades and something happening   
   >> with a planet or another constellation on a horizon at sunrise or   
   >> sunset.   
   >   
   > Hmm.. perhaps I should look up the reference..   
   > gonna take a while.. not sure what book it's in.. :-(   
   >   
      
   Luke's last sentence is right on par, Sidheseeker. Naturally, it has   
   all been based on Moon, Sun and Stars until the coming of   
   Judeo-Christianity and no matter what they say... it still is.   
      
   There's an excellent site out of Austria:   
   http://www.calendersign.com/en/welcome.php   
   which deals with the current tendency to "organize the world's   
   timekeeping by religious superstition" (in Sepp's own words)   
      
   Dan   
      
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