Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 8:42 am Post subject: Mabon
Pronounced May-bon. Also known as Harvest Home, Harvest Tide, Fall Equinox, Autumn Equinox etc.), September 21-23. Myself and a few others are celebrating this Sabbat. I will let you know how we celebrated this Sabbat next week (without invading the covens privacy obviously)! :)
Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 11:01 am Post subject: Re: Mabon
Kazza1971 wrote:
Pronounced May-bon. Also known as Harvest Home, Harvest Tide, Fall Equinox, Autumn Equinox etc.), September 21-23. Myself and a few others are celebrating this Sabbat. I will let you know how we celebrated this Sabbat next week (without invading the covens privacy obviously)! :)
Unfortunately I'm not in a position to do much, being on my own Craft-wise, and I don't have any contact with other pagans in my area.
What I do do, though, and have done for many years, is change the colours of the candles in my 3-branched candlestick with the arrival of each Festival, as well as the ribbons on my broomstick. My Mabon colours are red and purple for the hedgerow berries. It's just a little something I can do unobtrusively. Oh and I baked bread on the day of Mabon, too.
And just as an aside, I don't pronounce Mabon as 'may-bon' as it is a Welsh word, and the 'a' in Welsh is pronounced as in 'cat' and not as in 'hay'. Therefore, it's Mab-on. (meaning 'son' - the divine Child)
There are many allegorical tales in Welsh mythology about the kidnap or disappearance of Mabon ap Modron (son of the Mother) to explain the sun's disappearance or retreat throughout the winter months until Yule, when the Sun is reborn on Winter Solstice night as the Mabon again. It's all part of the mythological story of the Wheel of the Year.
Sorry to be pernickity but the correct way to pronounce it is 'Ma-bow'. You don't pronounce the final 'n'.
Of course it doesn't matter how you say any of them but I love when I meet all these big wig witches with their heads so far up their arses it's a wonder they can breathe, and they spout off about how they know so much about the craft, and what they don't know isn't worth knowing, yadda yadda yadda, and they can't even pronounce the names of teh sabbats correctly.
It does make me smile to correct these people in front of thier little band of followers.
Well that's the thing about Imbolc, I've heard it pronounced the way you say it but I've also heard it pronounced as 'Im-bolg' with a hard 'g'.
It doesn't really matter though. I once sat for over an hour at an open ritual waiting for two 'big-wigs' to finish an argument over whether 'athame' should be pronounced 'ath-ar-may' or 'ath-ay-mee'.
The same applies to 'deosil'. Most people pronounce it as 'de-o-sil' (I do too, just to save time) but the actual correct way to say it is 'gee-osh-all' (soft 'g').
I've only ever met a handful of people who actually pronounce it the right way.
It sounds all very Irish to me.. the way you say it I mean :) _________________ as a babe drinks from its mothers breast so too does man milk mother earth
It sounds all very Irish to me.. the way you say it I mean :)
That's because Scots Gaelic and Irish Gaelic are very closely related, EG. They belong to the same family of Celtic languages. The other one in that family is Manx. I think they're called 'Q' Celtic.
The other ones are what's known as 'P' Celtic, and they consist of Welsh, Cornish and Breton. These last two are the most closely related, and it's said that native speakers of each can understand each other easily.
And the word should only be uttered in tones of reverence whilst standing on one leg and dilating the sphincter.
It was just this sort of nonsense that made me fall out with the coven I belonged to.
They claimed to be celebrating life when in fact they were just heaping more and more drivel on to something that was fast becoming hidden under a pile of human mind chatter.
In other words it was becoming a religion, a belief system and belief is just belief and nothing more.
It also gave them a sense of belonging to and being something when all they had to do was feel their own life force.
Or perhaps I am just being negative because they chucked me out for pointing this out to them. _________________ Please visit our main site
Or perhaps I am just being negative because they chucked me out for pointing this out to them.
Yep. That's what normally happens when you point out people's short-comings.
I've had the 'pleasure' of working with many different kinds of covens over the years and apart from one or two none of them were up to much cop.
Most of them were too worried about whether they were moving deosil in the right way or if their robes made their bums look big or some other nonsense.
The best 'coven' I have ever been involved with is the one I am currently working with.
It's the best because we aren't actually a coven - not in the convential sense of the word.
We don't call ourselves a coven, we aren't all on the same path, we aren't overly concerned about robes and cloaks and the whole set-up is all very 'home-spun'.
We just get together, do what feels right and that's that.
But I tell you what, it's one of the most effective groups I have ever had the pleasure to work with simply because we get results, and as far as I'm concerned, that's all that matters.
That's what I'd call a true coven anyway, Raymond. Not the other type you described, who would break their necks if they fell off their own egos. I've always wanted to find a group like yours - not managed to yet, and don't think I ever will now.
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