Samhain | And The Pagan Origins of Halloween 🎃
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Jacob I’m 17 years old and I’m a dad to a wonderful little boy and I’ve been watching your channel grow for over 3 years you have helped me with this path so much and now I’m on the path of becoming a man, I want to thank you for everything you do, your inspirational Jacob. Me and my fiancé are going to the uk for our honeymoon and check out all the historic sites!
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@@TheWisdomOfOdin Until the hall!
A good way to get that snot out is a spicy bowl of soup or stew. The spicier the better.
All the best.
All the best to you young man.
I'm about 5 years older than you, and i couldn't imagine myself caring for a young child. I hope you and your young family stay healthy and happy.
May all the spirits and gods you feel connected to be with you and your family.
Excellent video, Jacob! I live in California, and the same days of Samhain are also Dias de los Muertos/Days of the Dead. Although mostly known as a Mexican observance with roots in the Aztec and Mayan cultures, it's also celebrated in Central America, Colombia, Venezuela, and Bolivia. I've told my Latine friends that the ancient Celts had an observance that honors the dead during the same time period. There are altars on which we place food and drink, photos or items belonging to those that passed, special bread, and it's the time of year when the veil between the living and the dead thins. We also believe that loved ones who have passed over can visit us. Their minds are absolutely blown at all the similarities in Samhain and Dias de los Muertos. 🇮🇪 🇲🇽
*Pagans here in Texas getting ready to celebrate!* 🤠
Our group is having our big Samhain weekend retreat this coming weekend! We have some property near Bastrop.
@@sjferguson Ours on 26th in San Antonio
Happy almost Samhain
This and the Yuletide season are my favorite times of the year, may the Gods bless you and have fun. :)
Blessings be, brothers and sisters❤️
Happy Samhain 🎃
This will be my first time celebrating Samhain since I just recently became spiritual and discovered Pantheism, then Paganism, then Witchcraft and Chaos Magick over the last 4 months or so, before that I have always been straight Atheist for 25 years of life. But now I've unlocked my spirituality and I'm dabbling in all sorts of stuff I never thought possible before. It's been an exciting but also challenging journey of having to grasp the new ways of looking at things, since so much of things I love have been related to Pagan myths and things and I've never even known, and for example when watching some horror movies now I can't help but notice the very obvious fact that they were made by Christians with a very negative view on anything Pagan, like with the original 1979 Halloween film and some of the sequels have a strong emphasis on Samhain and focus so strongly on it being an "evil" thing where Michael Myers who's the embodiment of "evil" is related to etc... I just mention because it's been a process with things that I used to just think are fun and now I can't help but get a bit irritated with the fact that they're completely misunderstanding and misrepresenting things that in reality are very beautiful.
ANYWAY this will be my first Samhain, and I was originally going to make a huge thing about it and have loads of fun but now I've found I've thought too hard about it haha and I think I'm just going to have a very quiet first Samhain, sat alone in the dark just thinking. Maybe cast a couple spells and things but for the most part just have a very quiet, slow, thoughtful night.
Thanks Jacob 🥰🎃
This is my first time seeing one of your videos and I am a practicing witch and I love your content- I try to teach others the simplest ways of everything- 2 thumbs up for you
Congratulations on your book and travel experiences!🎉 The epitome of an excellent life🙌🏼
Happy Samhain! :) :) :)
Congratulations on your book! That’s so awesome! I can’t wait to get it! I always absolutely love your videos! Thank you so much for sharing!
Sam is an Old Irish word for sun. Fuinn is an Old Irish word for end. Samhfuinn or Samhuinn is the sun's end.
Sun into Scorpio, the sign of death and rebirth.
Extraordinary Video !
Thank you very much Jacob for sharing with us your brilliant resonance and knowledge about this exciting constellation of the Nordic universe.
Greetings from the Antipodes! We are awakening whilst you prepare for sleep, but appreciate and celebrate the memory of those before along with you. Also ordered your book, better be good 😅
Happy Samhain! My favorite time of year.
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@@TheWisdomOfOdin "im full of snot right now and apologize" i need this on a sweater 😂 fr
@@MisstressMourtisha That’s a great idea! 😂👍
Great video, loving the colours and what a great message. ❤
Thank you for this video, looking forward to listening to more. Happy Autumn Season all
THANK YOU FOR THIS VID ❤
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Any chance you’ll do an audio book version? You’d be great at that!
Wowwwww, interesting! I thought I knew the Samhain Festival, but, here, there’s more!
Congrats
Yayyyyy, Samhain!!!
This was a great video.Always learn something from you. This This video came out on Canadian Thanksgiving Monday. A great way to celebrate October and November, our great months, seeing the changes of the season. Greetings from Alberta Canada
I love the Halloween commercialism I grew up with but I also love Samhain traditions. I like a balance of both.
So I absolutely loved this video, and I have been very much into Neo-Paganism of recent, especially from the Celtic and Nordic traditions. I have been drawn to them since the tv shows Vikings and Outlander first aired. Your excellent video on Samhain earned you a subscription from me and to help support you and all that you do, I have happily purchased your book, The Glastonbury Tourist on Kindle. I read the sample and it looks like an entertaining and fun read.
Samhain has been my favorite holiday since I was 5 even though I just called it Halloween most of my life. I take my costumes very seriously just as the top Cosplayers do, and I own well over a hundred costumes and almost as many masks of every kind of variety of monster and fantasy character I can think of. For the past 6 weeks, I have been putting together a unique costume I envisioned and hired over 10 Etsy artists to create specific custom pieces for my Neolithic inspired fantasy Druid character. My costume looks like it is taken in part from music groups: Eihwar, Heilung, Omnia and the Kurgan from the Highlander. Thank you for this very informative and fun video and I look forward to watching more of your videos in the near future.
There never existed an ancient pagan festival, its an American abstraction from the Christian All Hallows.
@@Autorange888 First off, you’re completely wrong just as the Bible, Christianity and the church is completely wrong on just about everything . Heck you guys have holidays that have nothing to do with history or facts,like Christmas for example . Scholars agree that Jesus (if he actually existed) was born in the summer but to compete with the Pagan holiday of the Winter Solstice, Yule, Yuletide they changed his birthday. By the way scholars also agree that the name Jesus, is a purely made up, nonsense name created as a mistranslation and that was never used during his lifetime. His actual name was Yeshua, which properly translated into English would be Joshua. So Christians have been worshiping a mistranslation for at least a millennium and still do to this day. Easter is another holiday the Christians stole from the Pagans, and the list goes on and on. Christianity is a religion historically based on a mountain of lies.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life What you tell is old hat mate, now the Americans misunderstood "All Hallows" which they turned into Halloween. There never existed a Celtic festival of that name. There, debunked and all that.
@@Autorange888 The festival of Samhain has existed since at least Roman times. It has nothing to do with America or American misunderstandings. Halloween may be the Americanized and modern interpretation of Samhain, but the sacred festival has been in existence prior to Christianity, Judaism and the Muslim religions.
@@BaritoneUkeBeast4Life What the heck, the Celtic dates for the annual festivals are well known, actually these are THE SAME alignments to the key dates in the NEOLITHIC annual agraric cycle. There NEVER existed a Celtic festival called Halloween, it is an American fantasy. Please check the ancient Celtic calendar of festivals, and you will discover Halloween never existed. With Blessings.
My favourite time of year! 💛🧡❤👍🍁🍂🎃🍂🍁👍❤🧡💛
Just Beautiful, thankyou xxx
Samhain was celebrated around the second new moon after the autumnal equinox. Celebrating Samhain on October 31 is based on the Gregorian calendar (Is Roman) and not Celtic. probably originated from neopaganism.
Great video! Speaking of the etymology of the word "Samhain", I believe it also has a connection with the Irish verb Samh, meaning "rest." Anyway, a blessed Samhain to all here, in this reality and the next... 😊
The Dagda and the Morrigan meet at the bed of the couple, said to be a Ford that leads to the river Unshin. The Dagda does however couples with Boann at Brú na Bóinne (Newgrande)
Great video I really enjoyed it thank you and blessings to you
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I can't believe how much weight you have lost Jacob, you're looking great brother! Congratulations, I know that's not an easy thing to do.
Thank you 🙏
Hallo from Bohemia! I cant wait for the Samhain podcast with Kuby May!
I read that there's some evidence that the traditional date for Samhain was timed by the Pleiades constellation, and that it's heliacal rising in the fall determined Samhain while it's helical setting determined Bealtainne. These days, the Pleiades heliacal rising occurs around Nov 21st, but back when the megaliths were being built, it occurred at the Autumn equinox. What better way to disseminate to the population when the equinox is when they don't live near a megalith than to tell them to look for a certain star cluster on the horizon at sunset when the equinox happens so the whole culture marks the festival at the same time all across the land...
This would've put Samhain equivalent at the Autumn equinox, the Imbolc equivalent (when the light just returns) at the Winter solstice, the Bealtainne equivalent at the Spring equinox, and the Lughnasadh equivalent at the Summer solstice. Not that there were Gaels back then, but interesting speculation nonetheless.
Love this❤
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NB, An Daghda and an Morrigan mated at the river Uinshin, not at Newgrange, and the first Samhain festival was held on the Hill of Tlachtga, not the Cave of Cats. And Samhain isn't an autumn festival, it's the winter festival marking the beginning of the Celtic winter season. Also, the ancestor component was added by the Roman church moving their ancestor observance from May to November. Hope this helps.
Samhain means End of Summer. It does not mean Halloween, there never existed an ancient pagan festival called Halloween. It's an American fantasy, an abstraction that came from the christian All Hallows.
Jacob, I think you should look into a game called Jotun: Valhalla Edition. It is a criminally underrated and extremely beautiful game wherein you play as Thora, a viking woman who died an inglorious death and has to fight against Jotun to gain the approval of Odin so she may enter Valhalla. I think you would really enjoy it. It's filled with soul-illuminating lore.
Great video.
Greetings from the land of the #Cananefates, now a days calles Westlands the Netherlands. Your vision on live speaks volumes, says it all. My lifestyle, living with nature, connecting with that what is important. #Othala
Here in Italy similar tradions existed in some parts but were basically forgotten and Halloween was introduced at the end of the 90s together with the study of English in the elementary schools. That's probably why it was and still is considered a fest for children, basically like an horror version of carnival.
So well said. Shun the commercialism.
YES!!!! Most of the stuff I see on FB and YT about Samhain is so ritualistic, that's the entire reason I left the church in the first place. Can't we just be natural and real? In my gut I feel that our ancestors just did things in a real way, not all busy... Thank you for this video and simplicity.
Great video!Yes,honor the dead!
Hey! Great video and thanks for sharing! Would love to pick up a copy of The Glastonbury Tourist though I do mainly use audiobooks as I travel a lot. Will there ever be an audiobook release?
Awesome presentation brother. I think you brought out the Mythos in your words. Everyone seems to get hung up on the Logos and Ethos and take it all to seriously and the beauty gets lost in the rituals and ceremonies and the soul of it all gets overlooked. The gods are stories, and when they became deities and dogmatic and turned into religions, brands and commodities the music died.
It is just logical that these things as honoring the dead and extra service or attention to the ones who passed during the year have more attention now. People had to stay tuned and focused on producing for themself and or in later times for landlords. They had no time to make a big thing out of a death. When seasons turned and harvest was in there was more time for this.
Samhain, sun into scorpio (sign of death and rebirth). Christian dates added in.
Swap your pumpkins for turnips 😂
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I can finally take my dream bucket list vacation......a scandinavian tour. I would like to visit festivals and such, but also wish to visit historical sights. Have you any recommendations on tour agencies or contacts I should look at for booking my one and only ultimate dream vacation ??
Uinterfylleð for me! 😌
Would you ever make a video about the Pictish people of Scotland?
I just learned about them. I’m 65% Norwegian and at least 25% Scottish, which I wasn’t aware of
I already have 🎉
Buchanans know the low road 👍
Do one for Chūnjié (春節) in the spring pls
OH WONDERFOUL VIDEO HERE BRASIL 🇧🇷 😎 🙏
Yup even your opinion is the actual purpose of day of the dead in Mexico , food and candles are home made
What was the actual day that the celts celebrated Samhain on? Obviously it wasn't the 31st of October every year because they didn't have the Gregorian or the Julian calendar. They used a lunar calendar. Is there a formula to find it or do I just look for the new moon nearest to the crossquarter...?
From my understanding they would have done it based off the plants and animals mixed with the lunar cycles. There are plants that grow\change color around these times of year typically.
But certainly something to look more into!
could you make a list of all the pagan places and holy sites you went to in Europe? I've recently retired and am now trying to get to the roots of who i am spiritually and i think it would help if I've actually visited all these pagan holy sites myself instead of just watching other ppl visit them.
Sadly the Celts were headhunters. It wasn’t all sunshine, roses and reverence.
It's interesting how there really are no records about Samhain outside of the records of those 9th century Christian monks with the exception of folklore and myth. As someone who has spent months exploring both Ireland and Scotland and I have been to Newgrange myself I find it interesting how neopagans like to reverse engineer pagan traditions(I use that word lightly) that have zero historical record outside of the 9th century Christian monks and overlay them on top of Christian ones and claim that Christians are celebrating pagan holidays when the exact opposite is true. If we are going by historical records Halloween is first celebrated by Christian monks many centuries before the first mention of Samhain. The hallow(meaning holy) eve was joined together with All Saint's Day where the monks were venerating martyred Christians killed by Nero and his kind. The night before was "hallow/holy" and the day after was the remembrance of the Saints. Similar to Christmas Eve then the day. Later the 9th century mention of Samhain by the monks was a celtic thing but was not the first Halloween even if neopagans have co-opted Halloween by means of fearing Christians into thinking it was a dark and evil thing with all the thin veil folklore stories common in every culture. Now, modern pagans have this false history that by hearsay are presenting to the world as some sort of ancient wisdom when it's not even close to the truth. While all cultures have been acknowledging the seasons and the dead in their own way for thousands of years there is no connection to Halloween for Samhain except in the modern context of people saying it is so. As a true lover of history, I will happily be proven wrong if you can cite the sources and aren't using the fallacy of "this sounds like it could be Samhain" or these are things pagan cultures did that resemble Samhain bc that is not credible and wouldn't stand up in any academic setting as a precursor to Halloween. If the monks in the 9th century called it by name then any references to credibility also need to be called by name. However, the reality is that Halloween is historically Christian and the connection to Samhain came later by pagans adopting the date for their own and Christian monks writing about it after Halloween was already a thing in the Church.
Great ending monologue. Keep it simple and avoid the "new age" stuff.
I like ur channel alot ..dont know why its subtitled but the spelling is horrible..lol
Conflating All Hallows Eve with pagan celebrations is disingenuous to both the pagan holiday and Christian holiday. Halloween (All Hallows Eve) and All Saints Day (All Hallows Day - Nov 1st) are purely Christian. The pagan holiday is purely pagan. The only connection would lie in people replacing the pagan celebration with the Christian on the capender purely due to convenience. But the celebrations themselves bear no common history.
By calender I mean the general time, they didn't share a comman date as they originated from different cultures with different calenders.
Also, most every source of info we have regarding pagan practices was written by Christians or, at the very least, after Christianity dominated the region. So any source that connects the two is likely making the pagan holiday more Haloweeny as opposed to the other way around.
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