Tag ancestral knowledge

The Middle of the Harvest: What Actually Makes It to February

The Irish word for September means the middle of the harvest, and October means its end. The autumn equinox was never a starting gun. It was a measuring point, and the measurement it asks for is narrower than the one we enjoy taking all summer: how much of what grew will still be food in February? Egypt measured its water in cubits. The rats measured theirs this week.

The Threshold Between Ripening and Rest

Lughnasadh was never pinned to a single day. It was a window: astronomical, lunar, and shared by peoples who never met each other. This piece traces the threshold from a fragmented bronze calendar in Gaulish France through Irish myth, Welsh continuity, Greek and Egyptian parallels, and the Haudenosaunee Green Corn Ceremony ~ toward what got hidden, and what it actually meant to name a harvest together.