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« Reply #45 on: October 30, 2003, 04:55:39 AM »

Only TWO more days to Holloween  Smiley

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Only ONE more days to Holloween  

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, Joy    

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Seriously, I've already finished with Halloween last week at the OSU Medical School in Tulsa. I left right before the medical students were about to dissect me.   Grin

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« Reply #46 on: October 30, 2003, 05:09:46 PM »

"The Story of Halloween
 
  http://www.holidays.net/halloween/story.htm

  Halloween is one of the oldest holidays with origins going back thousands of years. The holiday we know as Halloween has had many influences from many cultures over the centuries. From the Roman's Pomona Day, to the Celtic festival of Samhain, to the Christian holidays of All Saints and All Souls Days.
Hundreds of years ago in what is now Great Britain and Northern France, lived the Celts. The Celts worshipped nature and had many gods, with the sun god as their favorite. It was "he" who commanded their work and their rest times, and who made the earth beautiful and the crops grow.

 The Celts celebrated their New Year on November 1st. It was celebrated every year with a festival and marked the end of the "season of the sun" and the beginning of "the season of darkness and cold."

 On October 31st after the crops were all harvested and stored for the long winter the cooking fires in the homes would be extinguished. The Druids, the Celtic priests, would meet in the hilltop in the dark oak forest (oak trees were considered sacred). The Druids would light new fires and offer sacrifices of crops and animals. As they danced around the the fires, the season of the sun passed and the season of darkness would begin.

When the morning arrived the Druids would give an ember from their fires to each family who would then take them home to start new cooking fires. These fires would keep the homes warm and free from evil spirits.

 The November 1st festival was called Samhain (pronounced "sow-en"). The festival would last for 3 days. Many people would parade in costumes made from the skins and heads of their animals. This festival would become the first Halloween.

During the first century the Romans invaded Britain. They brought with them many of their festivals and customs. One of these was the festival know as Pomona Day, named for their goddess of fruits and gardens. It was also celebrated around the 1st of November. After hundreds of years of Roman rule the customs of the Celtic's Samhain festival and the Roman Pomona Day mixed becoming 1 major fall holiday.

 The next influence came with the spread of the new Christian religion throughout Europe and Britain. In the year 835 AD the Roman Catholic Church would make November 1st a church holiday to honor all the saints. This day was called All Saint's Day, or Hallowmas, or All Hallows. Years later the Church would make November 2nd a holy day. It was called All Souls Day and was to honor the dead. It was celebrated with big bonfires, parades, and people dressing up as saints, angels and devils.

But the spread of Christianity did not make people forget their early customs. On the eve of All Hallows, Oct. 31, people continued to celebrate the festivals of Samhain and Pomona Day. Over the years the customs from all these holidays mixed. October 31st became known as All Hallow Even, eventually All Hallow's Eve, Hallowe'en, and then - Halloween.

The Halloween we celebrate today includes all of these influences, Pomona Day's apples, nuts, and harvest, the Festival of Samhain's black cats, magic, evil spirits and death, and the ghosts, skeletons and skulls from All Saint's Day and All Soul's Day."

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« Reply #47 on: October 30, 2003, 08:45:48 PM »

Thanks, Ollie.

I don't know much about any of the holidays, but I sure do like Halloween.  Can't you tell??




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« Reply #48 on: October 30, 2003, 09:23:54 PM »

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« Reply #49 on: October 30, 2003, 11:55:29 PM »

Thanks, Ollie.

I don't know much about any of the holidays, but I sure do like Halloween.  Can't you tell??



Oklahoma Howdy to Symphony,

Actually, that picture of you in your tux is one of your better pictures. However, I wish you hadn't posted my picture above. Reference your picture, I think your next pose should be more somber and serious. You really don't look right with that ear to ear grin.   Grin

Whitehorse, if you are reading this, I just thought of something else I want for Christmas. I want corrective surgery to uncross my eyes and a shave.   Grin

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« Reply #50 on: October 31, 2003, 02:17:02 AM »

Halloween is something that thankfully is not very popular over here in nz but it's also something I keep completely away from.  But here is a website I found which actually details where it first came from.
http://www.jeremiahproject.com/halloween.html
It's actually the 31st October here now - 8.15pm - we are just over a day ahead of the USA and it's been pretty quiet tonight - no trick or treaters have come knocking.
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« Reply #51 on: October 31, 2003, 04:19:35 AM »

ZERO more days to Holloween   Smiley

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, Joy   Smiley  

HAPPY HOLLOWEN EVERYONE Smiley

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« Reply #52 on: October 31, 2003, 12:53:34 PM »

ZERO more days to Holloween   Smiley

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, Joy   Smiley  

HAPPY HOLLOWEN EVERYONE Smiley

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Thanks Bro, the same to you and your family Grin
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« Reply #53 on: October 31, 2003, 04:49:46 PM »

Oklahoma Howdy to All,

Time to put on my Bill O'Reilly costume and set up the No Spin Zone.   Grin
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« Reply #54 on: October 31, 2003, 07:16:48 PM »


Hi, bep.

Yes, KiwiChristian, I get the impression maybe "celebrations" of this sort a little more serious, or sinister, in the Commonwealth countries.  For some reason their ritualism still has definite ties to the Druids, etc.

We get it some here in the U.S.  People's black cats start disappearing about this time, if they don't watch out.  So there is weird stuff going on.  It's all definitely something to steer clear of.

Still, here the general intent is to laugh at evil, or at death.  In a way, it's got good validity to it.  Elijah there in I Kings mocked the prophets of Baal, made fun of them.

But when everyone starts treating it as some serious "holy-day", that's when definitely to steer clear, of course.

Or all of the immoral overtones now carried with it too, of course--as mentioned in my first post here, on this thread.

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« Reply #55 on: October 31, 2003, 07:54:05 PM »

ZERO more days to Holloween   Smiley

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy, Joy   Smiley  

HAPPY HOLLOWEN EVERYONE Smiley

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365 days and 4 hours, six minutes to "hollowween"!
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« Reply #56 on: November 01, 2003, 08:19:37 PM »

ZERO more days to Holloween   Smiley

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HAPPY HOLLOWEN EVERYONE Smiley

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365 days and 4 hours, six minutes to "hollowween"!

364 Days to "HOLLOWWEEN" Grin
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« Reply #57 on: November 02, 2003, 04:25:47 PM »

363 Days to "HOLLOWWEEN"   Grin
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« Reply #58 on: November 06, 2003, 01:44:05 PM »

I forgot to tell everyone, we got for big bags of candy Grin

P.S. 359 Days to "HOLLOWWEEN" Grin
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