Sam Hane. Sam Ane. Rhymes with coven. Rhymes with towin'. Rhymes with plowin'.
The first New Pagans of America mostly started off by reading books. In the absence of an oral tradition, we made do. With pronunciation of weird words, for instance.
Sam Hane. Good old rule of thumb for American English: pronounce it like it's spelled. What, you've never heard of Sam Hane, Druidic god of the dead?* (Not to mention his consort, Belle Tane, goddess of life. Sounds like quite the couple.)
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Internal polyvocality. You make me jealous, MPC! I suppose one could draw up a dialectal map of the pagan community according to -
This was the first post I found at this community - and it pushed me to sign up and join, so thank you! In my area people seem to -
This whole Samhain pronunciation issue, as well as the "Which God of the Dead is this? I've never heard of him..." issue are 2 rea
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I've been playing around with Summer's-End and Winter's Eve myself. I don't see any reason to canonize one name. We're the people
