LUGHNASADH CELEBRATION by DJ Ørlög & Vale Ferrari

Friday, 2nd of August 2019 at the Duncker Club, Berlin

◆ Lughnasadh Pagan Dance Music by DJ Ørlög
Pagan Music // Ritual // Neofolk // Ethereal // Goth // Post Punk
Death Rock // Indie // New Dark Cold Synth Wave // Minimal

◆ Free Buffet with fruits, sweets, and salty snacks

◆ Free sparkling wine for early birds

◆ Lughnasadh grain decoration, magic incense, and anointing oils

◆ The Starry Sky Garden is open!

Feel free to share and invite your friends.
(On this date there will be no free admission before 10:00 pm)

Dunckerstr. 64 / 10439 Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg

LUGHNASADH HISTORY

Lughnasadh (also known as Lammas) is an ancient Celtic summer festival held to celebrate the first harvest intake. It is one of the pagan festivals which split the year into four Celtic fire festivals: Imbolc, Bealtaine, Lughnasadh und Samhain, and like the other three, is thought to mark the first day of each season. One of these days is Lughnasadh, marking the beginning of fall. Its celebration takes place on the 1st of August, a date internationally agreed upon, or on the day of the full moon next to this date, if you want to celebrate when the ancient Celts probably did.

Lughnasadh is the Irish Gaelic word for “Commemoration of Lugh”. According to the ancient mythology, Lugh begun the festival in commemoration of his foster mother (Tailtiu) as a funeral feast and competitions with public games and sport like physical challenges. Some versions of the myth tell that Tailtiu was under obligation to clear the vast forest after defeat of her people by the ‘Tuatha De Dannan” (Dupre, Undated). In some versions, Tailtiu herself requested the festival be held in her honour at her death bed and she prophesied that “as long as the festival was held, Ireland will not be without a song”.

The meaning of Lughnasadh on a more “soul-oriented” perspective, is the start of the harvest of the fruits that we have sown in spring, and it usually leads to deep self-reflective questions like: which projects am I growing in my life at the moment? What will I be reaping? Have I planted the seeds of new ideas? Did I prepair a new fresh terrain for the projects to come? Am I ready to face the winter?

The essence of Lughnasadh is the enjoying of the last months of sun and warmth, knowing that the colder days are moving in. How will I spend the short and cold days in the winter time? How will I keep my connection to the outside world, to nature and to other people?

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