Re: Hallowe'en Down Under?
David Dalton <[email protected]> Sat, 04 May 2024 18:04:28 -0230
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| Organization | Eternal September |
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On Apr 29, 2024, David Dalton wrote (in article<[email protected]>): > I know that most pagans in the northern hemisphere celebrate > Beltane on May 1 while many in the southern hemisphere > celebrate Samhain then. However, if you define it as halfway between the equinox and the solstice, it is exactly 1158 UTC May 5, 2024, not May 1. -- David Dalton [email protected] https://www.nfld.com/~dalton (home page) https://www.nfld.com/~dalton/dtales.html Salmon on the Thorns (mystic page) “Mary walks down to the water’s edge and there she hangs Her head to find herself faded a shadow of what she once was" (Sarah McLachlan)