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Lammas - Sabbaths Name Lammas Other names Lughnasadh Point of time 1st of August About sabbath Lammas is a first festive of the harvest. It is also celebration of the dying and rescurrecting god. Gaelic name Lughnasadh means to a celtic sungod, Lugh's death and resincurrection. Lammas is spent in the beginning of the harvest and it has close relationships with stories about sacrifice and death. In many cases, beliefs of the sacrifice are based on misapprehension or wrong conception. Lammas is celebrated quater year after Beltane. Lammas was a middle-age christian name for this celday and it means sanctifying breads. In lammas bread were baked from the first harvest and set as a sacrifice in to altar. Lammas reflects first harvest of the autumn and it's fruits. Harvesting season starts in sabbath, when god's and goddesses fertilityaspect is celebrated. Rites for the sabbath Lammas Return to list