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Correspondences for Lughnasadh
· Also called Lammas, Lughnasa, Festival of Green Corn, Ceresalia, August Eve, Elembiuos, Feast of Cardenas
· Celebrated on the 2nd or 7th of August, depending on Tradition
· Cross Quarter Festival, falling between Midsummer and Mabon
· Lughnasadh is the time to…
o Celebrate the first harvest
o Honor the Sun God
· Traditional Incense: aloes, rose, sandalwood
· Traditional candle colors: orange, gold, and yellow
· Traditional gemstones: aventurine, citrine, peridot, sardonyx
· Traditional foods: homemade breads, barely cakes, nuts, wild berries, apples, rice, roasted lamb, berry pies, elderberry
wine, meadowsweet tea
· Traditional herbs: acacia flowers, aloes, cornstalks, cyclamen, fenugreek, frankincense, heather, hollyhock, myrtle, oak
leaves, sunflower, wheat
· Traditional animals: roosters and calves
· Attunement teas: alfalfa, corn silk, goldenseal
· Ritual oils: eucalyptus, corn, safflower
· Mythical creatures: phoenix, griffins, basilisk, centaurs, speaking skull
· Suggested decorations: All grains, grapes, heather, blackberries, sloe, crab apples, pears, corn, bread, wheat
· Suggested activities: baking bread, gathering the first fruits, astrology
· Taboos: not sharing food
· Goddesses of Lughnasadh:
o All Grain Goddesses
o All Livestock Goddesses
o All Mother Goddesses
o Alphito (Irish)
o Artemis (Greek)
o Ashnan (Sumerian)
o Bast (Egyptian)
o Bau (Egyptian)
o Cabria (Phoenician)
o Carmen (Italio-Iberian)
o Ceres (Roman)
o Changing Woman (Native American)
o Chicomecoatl (Aztec)
o The Corn Mothers (Native American)
o Damia (Greek)
o Demeter (Greek)
o Epona (pan-Celtic)
o The Fates (Greek)
o Frey (Norse)
o Gaia (Greek)
o Goddess of Mundus (Norse-Celtic)
o Guadalupe (Mexican)
o Habondia (German)
o Habondia (Italian)
o Hani-Yasu-NoKami (Japanese)
o Huruing Wuhti (Native American)
o Ishtar (Babylonian)
o Juno Augusta (Roman)
o Kait (Hittite)
o Kornjunfer (German)
o Libera (Roman)
o Mama Alpa (Incan)
o Marcia (Italian)
o Mawu (African)
o Morgay (English)
o The Morrigan (Irish)
o Nisaba (Chaldean)
o The Norns (Norse)
o Oddudua (African)
o Persephone (Greek)
o Pirua (South American)
o Po Ino Nogar (Cambodian)
o Qocha Mana (Hopi)
o Rainbow Serpent (Australian)
o Rhea (Greek)
o Rhiannon (Welsh)
o Robigo (Roman)
o Saning Sri (Japanese
o Selu (Cherokee)
o Taillte (Irish)
o Tailltiu (Welsh-Scottish)
o Tailtu (Irish)
o Tonantzin (Mexican)
o Tuaret (Egyptian)
o Uti Hiati (Pawnee)
o Yellow Land Earth Queen (Chinese)
o Zaramama (Peruvian)
o Zytniamatka (Teutonic)
· Gods of Lughnasadh:
o All Father Gods
o All Grain Gods
o All Livestock Gods
o Athtar
o Bes (Egyptian)
o Bran (Welsh)
o Cinteotl (Aztec)
o Dagon (Phoenician)
o Ebisu (Japanese)
o Ghanan (Mayan)
o Howtu (Chinese)
o Liber (Roman)
o Llew (Welsh)
o Lono (Polynesian)
o Lugh (Irish)
o Neper (Egyptian)
o Odin (Norse)
· Suggested chant (author unknown):
"Hoof and horn, hoof and horn.
All that dies shall be reborn.
Corn and grain, Corn and grain.
All that falls shall rise again."
· Lughnasadh Incense:
o 2 parts frankincense
o 1 part heather
o 1 part apple blossoms
o 1 pinch blackberry leaves
o A few drops each of:
o cypress oil
o oak moss oil
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