Gaelic, Samhain, Halloween: Ireland (video)

Fortress of Lugh, 10/23/23; Pat Macpherson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Ancient Celtic Festival of Samhain: The origins and history of 🎃 Halloween explained 

(Ireland AM) Oct. 30, 2022: Aron Hegarty of Candlelit Tales joins Alan to talk all things Halloween. He tells Alan that modern-day Halloween exists because of "a good combination of colonialism, capitalism, emigration, and Christianity!"

• Syncretism made Halloween what it is today (due in large part to blending in the USA) like the Japanese Buddhist Bon Festival (Obon) and the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebrations.

👻Hegarty explains that modern Halloween is based on the old pagan festival of Samhain (pronounced \sao-wyn\). Before Christianity invaded Ireland, on the night of October 31st, Irish people celebrated Samhain. It was believed that the ghosts (spirits) of the dead returned to earth on this day.

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What did the Old Gaelic language sound like?

(Fortress of Lugh) Let's take a look at the evolution of the Irish and Scottish Gaelic languages and what they sounded like in ancient and medieval periods, using historical examples.

The reconstructed pronunciation strives to follow the scholarship on the correct pronunciation, though there is not always full agreement on the sounds during specific periods.

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