Lugnasad
In the Irish Celtic Mythology, Lugnasad (in modern Irish Lúnasa , which is the name of August) is a religious holiday whose name means “assembled Lug”, the god-king which represents Sovereignty and the paramount Man. It takes place it, symbolically for the period of harvests.
It is about the festival of the king in his function of redistributor of the richnesses and equity, under the authority of the druids. It is a military truce which celebrates peace, the friendship, the abundance and the prosperity of the kingdom. It is obligatory and joins together the three classes (sacerdotal, warlike and artisanal) of the Celtic Société.
It is described like a fair of trade, but also an occasion to regulate the dispute, to celebrate marriages, to hear poets and musicians. If there is no sacrifice nor of religious ceremony, one made there plays and races, similar to the Greek Olympiades.
The Gaulois equivalent is “Concilium Galliarum”: the Parliament of Gaules .
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