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Artist Notes:
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A retro esoteric artist collage representing Lammas amidst sunflowers in the center on an orange brown background with a circle pattern and the text "Lammas Blessings". Lughnasadh (‘gathering of Lugh’, in Irish), or Lammas, is one of the four ‘greater sabbats’ and the first of the year’s harvest festivals, along with Mabon and Samhain. Lammas comes from the Anglo-Saxon word meaning ‘loaf-mass’. It occurs at the beginning of August. Opposite on the wheel to Imbolc, at Lammas the God sacrifices himself before the Goddess, her sickle slaying him and his blood spilling onto the land to ensure its continuing fertility in the next Wheel of the Year. The God moves from being the Lord of Light, which he is until Lammas, to the Dark Lord of Death, which he will be throughout the darkening half of the year. Celtic pagans mark the festival by making corn dollies and Wiccans bake bread in the shape of the God.
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