ALBAN ELVED

This is the Celtic feast of wine, the Pagan harvest festival
 

DATE
About September 21st
 

CORRESPONDING MODERN FEAST
Harvest Festival
 

CELTIC GODS
Mabon, Bran & Branwen
 

CUSTOMS
Harvest Festival, gathering ripe field fruits (often roots and pumpkins for Samhain), harvesting corn and grapes, binding sheaves, fishing, pressing and preparing wine
 

SYMBOLS
Grape/vine, sheaves, a fish, fillhorn, little pumpkin
 

DEDICATED FOOD
Red wine, wild and huntable animals, pumpkins, melones, nutritive vegetable breads and vegetable cakes, thick vegetable soups
 

SMOKE WORK
Sage, balsam
 

TRESHOLD TIME
Dusk