the first harvest
Lammas (Lughnasadh)
August 1
lammas is the first bread from the first grain. gratitude, before the harder harvests.
she marks
the first grain, gratitude, a small sacrifice for a larger yield
her colors
golden wheatorangebrown
her correspondences
wheatfresh breadcorn dollysunflowerblackberry
Lammas (or Lughnasadh, for the god Lugh) is the first of the three harvest festivals — the grain cut, the first bread baked, an early accounting of what the year's work actually produced. It carries an old note of sacrifice: something has to end for something else to be fed. Bake something from scratch. Notice what you're actually harvesting this year.