As autumn proves and Robert Frost reminds us, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
In October, daylight wanes, fields empty and much of the Northern Hemisphere turns itself towards full blown memento mori.
All of this death is not without ceremony, found most notably in Halloween, a holiday whose origins trace back to the Iron Age and a feast of fire.
Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest, the onset of winter and the beginning of the “dark half” of the Celtic calendar year.
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Source: https://nypost.com/article/what-is-samhain-halloween-origin-explained/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNx77dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmIjeKC-AY8wHxgC-wTS6aRXyM41oKFjTQ4fbXnAQRVOxdqfQmgXiEiGQUk7_aem_m2gHckxmF9BTWz7PxRKjLw
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