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deities of Litha
During Litha it is believed that the male deity you worship is in the prime point of his growth, strength and abilities. This is represented by the fact that the days are longer than the nights.
The Midsummer festival celebrates the kingly aspect of the God. It is a festival of passion and glory, a time to go outside and commune with nature and her creatures such as sprites and fairies. In some Celtic traditions it is also a celebration of the Mother Goddess who is showing that she is with the child she will bare during Yule.
Which deity do you like to include in your Litha worship?
*Some of this information was found in Llewellyn’s Sabbat Essentials Midsummer and Llewellyn’s complete book of correspondences by Sandra Kynes*
deities of beltane
Beltane marks the handfasting (wedding) of the Goddess and God, the reawakening of the earth’s fertility at its fullest. This is the union between the Great Mother and her Young Horned God. This coupling brings new life on earth. It is the unifying of the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine forms to bring forth the third form, consciousness.
Which deity do you like to include in your Beltane worship?
*Some of this information was found in Llewellyn’s Sabbat Essentials Beltane and Llewellyn’s complete book of correspondences by Sandra Kynes*
Deities of samhain
Deities of Mabon
Demeter
Litha Deities
During Litha it is believed that the male deity you worship is in the prime point of his growth, strength and abilities. This is represented by the fact that the days are longer than the nights.
The Midsummer festival celebrates the kingly aspect of the God. It is a festival of passion and glory, a time to go outside and commune with nature and her creatures such as sprites and fairies. In some Celtic traditions it is also a celebration of the Mother Goddess who is showing that she is with the child she will bare during Yule.
The archetypes that are typically appealed to during a Litha ritual are: Earth Mother, the Fairy King, the Fairy Queen, Fire Gods, Goddess in the form of the Mother, Goddess of fertility, “Leafy” Gods (such as Green George, Jack O’ the Green, the Green Man, the Holly King, the Oak King or Pan), Love Goddesses, the Sever-Year King, Sun Gods and Goddesses, and Thunder Gods.
Here is a list of a few deities by name: Aestas, Agni, Aine, Amaterasu, Amaunet, Amun-Ra, Anuket, Aphrodite, Apollo, Arani, Artemis, Astarte, Athena, Aurora, Baal, Balder/Baldur, Bast, Belinos, Bochica, Bona Dea, Brighid/Brigit, Cerridwin, the Dagda, Eos, Epona, Freya, Frigga, Gaia, Hadad, Hathor, Helios, Hera, Hestia, Hoder/Hodur, Hu, Huitzilopochtli, Hyperion, Iarila, Inanna, Ishtar, Janus, Juno, Jupiter, Kupalo, Lleu Llaw Gyffes, Llew, Loki, Lugh, Marduk, Maui, Mithras, Odin, Orunjan, Perun, Phoebe, Prometheus, Ra, Rhiannon, Saule, Sekhmet, Shamash, Sol, Solntse, Sul, Sunna, Surya, Taranis, Thor, Thunar, Venus, Vesta, Vishnu, Woden, Xiuhtecuti, Yemaya, Zeus
Which deity do you like to include in your Litha worship?
*Some of this information was taken from Llewellyn’s Sabbat Essentials Midsummer and Llewellyn’s complete book of correspondences by Sandra Kynes*
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