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Re: VMs: What do you think about Eight?

Hi everyone,

Perhaps moving forward with this:-

http://www.fabrisia.com/festivals.htm

        The Stregherian calendar acknowledges Eight Treguendas. During
        this time, we undergo 13 Full Moon phases, one every 28 1/4 days.
        <...>

        In Italy, witches do not use the word Sabbat for their seasonal
        rites. The Italian word is Treguenda (Tray-gwen-dah). In modern
        Italian the word Treguenda means 'quarterly or every three months'.

        In the Stregherian tradition there are eight Treguendas: four major
        and four minor. The major festivals occur in October, February,
        May and August and these are the Spiritual rites. The minor
        festivals occur on the Spring and Autumn Equinox and on the
        Summer and Winter Solstice. These are the Earth festivals and
        are seasonal and agriculture-related in nature.

The page also gives a table of festivals, listing the Treguendas as:-

        Shadow Fest/La Festa Dell' Ombra        October 31
        La Festa dell'Inverno                   December 21
        Lupercus/Festa di Lupercus              February 2
        Equinozio della Primavera               March 21
        Tana's Day/La Giornata di Tana          May 1
        Summer Fest/La Festa dell'Estate        June 21
        Cornucopia                              August 1
        Equinozio di Autunno                    September 21

Having said all that, I don't know how authentic these are - ie, are they genuine stregheria or a reconstructed neopaganist version of the same?

I'll try and ask Robin Artisson - on this page, he says that the ancient Celts had no eight-fold calendar (only winter and summer), that Wicca only really dates to the 1940s/1950s, etc - and seems to know what he's talking about.
http://www.angelfire.com/wv/clanndroen/essay.html
http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:gbOCFHpkb3cJ:www.thecrookedheath.com/stregheria.htm


Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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