Pagan Portals - Breath of Spring: How to Survive (and Enjoy) the Spring Festiva

Pagan Portals - Breath of SpringHow to Survive (and Enjoy) the Spring Festival\nAuthor(s): Melusine Draco\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Collective Ink, United Kingdom\nImprint: John Hunt Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781803411880, 978-1803411880\nSynopsis\nCandlemas/Imbolc is the re-awakening of the Old Lass within Old Craft belief and also coincides with the Roman Candelaria and Fornicalia -a spring corn festival celebrated in honour of Fornax, goddess of ovens, and observed by each ward of the city. All this merging of primitive origins and rites, belonging to the European pre-urban agricultural culture, meant that it also commemorated the search for Persephone by her mother and the festival of candles symbolizing the return of the Light. So it continued to be performed until the Christian era, when it was transformed into Candalmas in AD494. In pre-Christian times, Imbolc observance began the night before 1st February, and celebrants prepared for a visit from Brigid into their homes by c.