Laghnassad


Laghnassad, also called Lammas or Teltane, is the festival of the first harvest, when the grain is harvested and the first bread is baked from the new wheat. It is the end of the summer and the onset of autumn, which will continue until Samhain. The Father, personified as the God of Grain, John Barleycorn, dies in his plant form and, in dying, produces seed that is the means by which He shall come again next year.

In the year as a day, Laghnassad is the burning heat of midafternoon. It is associated with the southwest. In the wheel of the year, the seed's fruit ripens.