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Image: An altar for Lammas aka Lughnasadh.

Lammas is the traditional time of Harvest, and preparation for the coming winter months, celebrated in February in the Southern hemisphere, and in August in the Northern hemisphere.

Lammas is awareness of the approach of winter, and thanksgiving for the year’s harvest. The name Lammas derives from the Old English Hlaf-Mass, which means “bread feast”.

Lammas is traditionally the festival where the first loaf of bread from the harvest is broken and shared. All crops associated with bread are sacred to this time, in particular barley. The drinks of the season are beer, ale, cider, and all things brewed.

Lammas is a harvest not only of crops, but of all that we have sown through the year and is a time to share, be thankful for our blessings, and be joyful for the blessings that are to come.

Traditionally Lammas is the celebration of harvest, and ties in with Lughnasadh, the Celtic festival in honour of the Sun God, Lugh. Tradition tells that the Sun King gives his energy to the crops to ensure life while the Mother prepares to transform into her aspect as the Crone.

Lammas is the time to teach and to share the fruits of our achievements. The baking of bread, the gathering of seed for the next year’s sowing, and the making of corn dolls are all traditional at Lammas. The altar is decorated with loaves of freshly baked bread, corn dolls and wreaths, and the fruits and vegetables of the harvest.

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“Deep beneath the soil of ancient Anatolia, archaeologists uncovered something unexpected—a mirror, carefully carved and polished from volcanic glass. It dates back to around 6000 BCE, when woolly mammoths still roamed parts of the Earth and most humans lived in simple farming villages. But this wasn’t just a shiny rock. It was a deliberately shaped, convex obsidian mirror, made to reflect the face of someone who lived over 8,000 years ago.

What makes it so extraordinary isn’t just its age—it’s what it reveals. To create a mirror from obsidian, you need incredible skill. Volcanic glass is brittle and razor-sharp. Yet someone in the Neolithic world managed to polish it to perfection, creating a surface that reflects up to 70% of the light—comparable to modern mirrors. This was thousands of years before writing or metalworking. And still, someone looked into that dark glass... perhaps to fix their hair. Or to see who they were.

It’s a quiet moment, frozen in time. When the world’s population was just 5 million, when agriculture was just beginning to spread, and when the first cats had only just curled up beside a fire, someone wanted to see their reflection. Proof that even in the age of stone and bone, humans were already reaching inward, not just outward.”