Paganistan: Notes from the Secret Commonwealth
In Which One Midwest Man-in-Black Confers, Converses & Otherwise Hob-Nobs with his Fellow Hob-Men (& -Women) Concerning the Sundry Ways of the Famed but Ill-Starred Tribe of Witches.
Keeping Samhain
A Great Rite of Peoples
Do we celebrate Samhain?
Mostly, yes.
Do we observe Samhain?
I hope so. The unexamined life is not worth living.
Do we keep Samhain?
Bingo.
We are keepers, we pagans. We keep. We keep to.
And not just Samhain. We are those who keep (and keep to) the Old Ways, long after others have thrown them away.
We retain them. We hold them. We guard them.
Like Americans, witches are a Great Rite of Peoples.
We hold to the Old Ways.
We keep the Old Ways.
As I write this, we look toward the third of what in ancient Gaul they called Trinox Samoni, the Three Nights of Samhain.
Samhain mhath (SAH-win VAH): good Samhain.
Bliadhna mhath ùr (BLEE-uh-nuh VAH OOR): Happy New Year.
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