Next Attraction! The Midsummer Solstice (21st June), or ALBAN HERUIN, if you want to stick to the Celtic motif.
It's a good idea to stick to the Celts, because they have eight festivals a year. Party, party, party! Rock around the year!
Here is a tidbit about Alban Heruin:
The summer solstice is the symbolic 'orgasm' of the year, it is when the gods consumate their pacts to each other and to us. As the god's orgasm ends, he suffers 'le petit mort'. This little death of the god and his bounteous semen are the sun gods own sacrifice to us and the goddess.
The guys might not like the next festival, Lughnasadh, quite as much. It comes on "August eve" (July 31):
This is the time of the harvest festival.... Lugh, the celtic sun god,has passed beyond 'le petit mort', and is ritually slaughtered at this time.
He is demasculated as the crops are cut. This symbolism of the reaping is very important, the sun god's erection has wilted and if they are not harvested the crops will wilt as well. So the corn-sun god is cut short, cropped at this time so that we may remember him at his prime.
Yee-haw, we'll have fun tonight!!
Anyway, check out the festivals for yourself:
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