VMs: Re: What do you think about Eight?

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

since the VMs includes bits and pieces from several
scientific disciplines, it might well be that the
diagram is not astronomical or astrological at all,
but rather meteorological. It would make perfect 
sense to have an eight-fold division for the 
eight major directions from which the winds might
come. The figure is of course rather unusual in
that sense, but so is the whole MS :-)
Not that a spiral also occurs in the upper right
circle of the rosettes page, FWEIW. 

I don't know anything about treguenda, or how
old that tradition is, but there is one aspect
I like about that explanation: the VMs figure shows
four larger sprials and four smaller ones, 
alternating. Also the writing direction 
alternates.

Cheers, Rene

--- Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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