Banquet

YAY!! That is true, one with an imagination can do wonders! This ws a very good poem. ~Rain~

Imagination, what would we do without it? And if you think about it, what isn't imagination? Exceedingly imaginative poem, Cat! ;-) ~A

The real story, to the point uncluttered by glitz snd bling I now light our candle at solstice and it was my mother who had put it in Christian context of lighting all night on the eve of christmas to show the way in the darkness. There is no real darkness just less light. A great poem Cat...crisp Seabhac

thanks for all the wonderful information ... thats just amazing I learnt lots out of that small piece ... and I loved your poem dear One ... It made think of that line out of lord of the rings let this be your light when all others go out ... that line wrings my heart out everytime ... and your poem made me think of it ... ok stop babbling lol love and hugs Jayne-Chloe x x x

what a lot of info to go with this which is even better being read after reading the info,sounds great read aloud no slack words , another gem ,,,,ziggy

Mystical and magical. Great knowledge of things unknown to many and I enjoyed every bit of this to the last drop. Was Paganism first on the agenda before religion? If so, like a lot of things, man made, word of mouth and a lot of questioning. And within the imagination, yes all things are probable. Thanks for sharing your delicious banquet and all was very informative. Great write Cat. Love to you and yours. Lyz. XX

Heya Cat your back... with a vengence! I love pagan stuff and I know a lot about the back history and how the chrstian faith incorporated a lot of it rituals, festivals and ideas into its own. Some of the more know ones are of course Dancing Round The Maypole which is a harvest festival, the holy grail which is a caludron of the great goddess (andrea) blood which grants eternal life, baptism and holy water which stems from the lady of the lake thing of which they believed such water was blessed by the spirits... most churches were built near pagan ritual sites to gain influences there, All Hallows Eve is of course another famous one that precedes All Saints Day. Some of what you have put here I did not know but I did know what the yuletide festival was. All I can say my friend is go out and frolick in the moonlight and feast upon the souls of the earth... blend with mother nature, for she alone will take you to the stars. Superb imagination and creativity here... which I know your spirit and mind is brimming with! So good to see you back here! Dale :)

a beautiful description of a "different Christmas". The early Christians snatched the pagan holidays and relabelled them for their purposes. The goddess Frigg used to roam Midgard from late December into early January in the old pagan times, to see who had been busy and who had been lazy. Some of our modern Christmas paraphernalia still derive from this belief (e.g. evergreens). The same is true for other holidays, e.g. the Easter bunny used to be the holy animal of the goddess Ostara (after whom the Christian holiday is still named today). It's important to remember that some of our customs have roots in a tradition older than Christian tradition. Yours, ~Nina

A very pretty little poem x

I like your new picture. I like this poem, too, very much. It's especially appropriate as I have been listening to tapes on western literature lately, and right now seeing the thread from myth and pagan to Renaissance literature which is by then primarily Christian. I think maybe you meant to do the punctuating the way you did. But since I get pretty anal over grammar, I did stop to notice. I find it less distracting to read this way than to wonder why. Obviously, though, I did love the poem and the subject and the images and philosophies it conjured. Disbeliever, hesitantly overlooking the mysteriousness behind the reason of the feast, set your table by the light of the full moon. Gather among friends all the gentle folk come to see magick in the night. Find ye the potential healing of the heart, finding the sweet simplistic dabble in the fantastic as all things are probable within the imagination!

Enjoyed this poem, it really comes to show that the imagination is a beautiful, wild thing Good Write!!!