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The first harvest. What you reap from what you planted. The feast of skill.
Lughnasadh — named for Lugh, god of light and skill and mastery, the shining one with the long reach. The festival was established as a funeral feast in honour of his foster mother Tailtiu, who cleared the plains of Ireland for agriculture and died of exhaustion from the labour. The harvest honours that giving. It always honours what it cost.
The Tailteann Games — held at the banks of the River Blackwater where it meets the Boyne, in the ancient landscape of Meath — were feasts of skill. Demonstrations of what a person could do. This guide asks two questions together: what have you harvested this year? And what did it cost? Both deserve an honest answer.
The first harvest. What you reap from what you planted. The feast of skill.
Lughnasadh — named for Lugh, god of light and skill and mastery, the shining one with the long reach. The festival was established as a funeral feast in honour of his foster mother Tailtiu, who cleared the plains of Ireland for agriculture and died of exhaustion from the labour. The harvest honours that giving. It always honours what it cost.
The Tailteann Games — held at the banks of the River Blackwater where it meets the Boyne, in the ancient landscape of Meath — were feasts of skill. Demonstrations of what a person could do. This guide asks two questions together: what have you harvested this year? And what did it cost? Both deserve an honest answer.