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Wheel
of the Year Flag String Set
FULL SET
15 inches by 17 inches each
8 separate flags
Winter
and Summer Solstices
Spring and Autumn Equinoxes
Candlemas, May Day, Lammas, and Samhain
Designed for display at each of the solar holidays, these flags will fit on a
pole outside your house, in your window or on a wall! Decorate to celebrate!
Details
and more photos Here
These are smaller versions of all eight holidays. Not sewn on a string, but a
string is included for your use.
$59.00
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Wheel
of the Year Turning Points Flag String Set
20 inches wide by 24 inches top to point
Winter and Summer Solstices
Spring and Autumn Equinoxes
Designed for display at each of the solar holidays
(Solstices and Equinoxes) these will fit on a flag pole outside your house, in
your window or on a wall, for festive Pagan cheer!
Details and more photos Here
Based on the Goddess traditions of Europe.
Includes four large pennants: Winter and Summer Solstices, and Spring and Fall
Equinoxes.
Not sewn on a string.
$49.00
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Wheel
of the Year Cross Quarters Flag Set
20 inches wide by 24 inches top to point
Candlemas, May Day, Lammas, and Samhain
Details and more photos
Here
Designed for display at each of the cross quarter days, these
will fit on a flag pole outside your house, in your window or on a wall.
Includes four large pennants for Candlemas, May Day, Lammas and Samhain.
$49.00
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History
and Meaning of The Wheel of the Year
The Wheel of the Year is a Wiccan and Neopagan term for the annual cycle of the
Earth's seasons. It consists of eight festivals, spaced at approximately even
intervals throughout the year. These festivals are referred to by Wiccans as
Sabbats.
While the term Sabbat originated from Abrahamic faiths such as Judaism and
Christianity and is of Hebrew origin, the festivals themselves have historical
origins in Celtic and Germanic pre-Christian feasts, and the Wheel of the Year,
as has developed in modern Neopaganism and Modern Wicca, is really a combination
of the two cultures' solstice and equinox celebrations.
When melded together, two somewhat unrelated European Festival Cycles merge to
form eight festivals in modern renderings. Together, these festivals are
understood by some to be the Bronze Age religious festivals of Europe.
As with all cultures' use of festivals and traditions, these festivals
have been utilized by European cultures in both the pre and post Christian eras
as traditional times for the community to celebrate the planting and harvest
seasons.
The Wheel of the Year has been important to many people both ancient and modern,
from various religious as well as cultural and secular viewpoints.
In many forms of Neopaganism, natural processes are seen as following a
continuous cycle. The passing of time is also seen as cyclical, and is
represented by a circle or wheel.
The progression of birth, life, decline and death, as experienced in human
lives, is echoed in the progression of the seasons. Wiccans also see this cycle
as echoing the life, death and rebirth of the Horned God and the fertility of
the Goddess.
While most of these names derive from historical Celtic and Germanic festivals,
the non-traditional names Litha and Mabon, which have become popular in North
American Wicca, were introduced by Aidan Kelly in the 1970s.
The word "sabbat" itself comes from the witches' sabbath or sabbat
attested to in Early Modern witch trials.
Source: Wikipedia
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