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Los antiguos pueblos celtas, llegado el final de
Octubre,
solan
celebrar
una
gran
fiesta
para
galica
de
Samhain.
Significa,
muertos
tenan
la
oportunidad
de
poder
comunicarse.
Tras la romanizacin de los pueblos celtas con
alguna excepcin como es el caso de Irlanda- y, a
pesar de que
Con el auge de la nueva religin-el cristianismola fiesta pagana se cristianiz despus como el dia de
Todos los Santos (la traduccin en ingls es, All
Hallows Eve,
de ah la expresin
actual de
Halloween).
A pesar de ello, los irlandeses , entre otros
pueblos de origen celta, siguieron celebrando la
estos
europeos
comenzaron
utilizar
fiesta
ancestral
reconvertida
para
la
sociedad actual del ocio. Nada tiene que ver ya con los
Overview:
the
most
tenacious
errors
associated
with
Halloween.
Almost all stories about the origin of Halloween
correctly state that Halloween had its origins among
the ancient Celts and is based on their "Feast of
Samhain." However, a writer in the 18th century
incorrectly stated that Samhain was named after the
famous Celtic "God of the Dead." Many religious
conservatives
who
are
opposed
to
Halloween,
writes:
"Major
dictionaries
of
Celtic
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There
are
many
sources
supporting
the
web
site
"Brightest
Blessings"
mentions:
"Samhain (October 31), most often recognized as
our New Year, is also called Ancestor Night. It
represented the final harvest, when the crops were
safely stored for the coming Winter. As the veil
between the worlds of life and death is thin on this
night, we take this time to remember our beloved
dead."
of
the
Indo-European
migrations,
these
The
Scottish
Gaelis
Dictionary
similarly
Meaning
of
Samhain
according
to
most
conservative Christians:
The belief that Samhain is a Celtic God of the
Dead is near universal among conservative Christian
ministries, authors and web sites. They rarely cite
references. This is unfortunate, because it would
greatly simplify the job of tracing the myth of Samhain
as a God back to its origin:
In 1989, Johanna Michaelsen wrote a book
opposing the New Age, Humanism and Wicca. It is
titled "Your Child and the Occult" 4 She writes:
"The Feast of Samhain was a fearsome night, a
dreaded night, a night in which great bonfires were lit to
Samana the Lord of Death, the dark Aryan god who
was known as the Grim Reaper, the leader of the
ancestral Ghosts."
The
conservative
Watchman
Christian
Fellowship
counter-cult
Inc
group
is
which
names
of
Celtic
gods
are
research.
Richard
Bucher
from
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Meaning
sources:
of
Samhain
according
to
secular
Carr wrote
the text
References:
The following information sources were used to
prepare and update the above essay. The hyperlinks
are not necessarily still active today.
Broceliande,
"Wheel
of
the
Year,"
at:
at:
http://www.no-exit-
http://www.triplemoon.com/
"Brightest
Blessings,"
studios.demon.co.uk/
http://nashville.citysearch.com/E/F/NASTN/0000/1
6/11/
Johanna Michaelsen, "Your Child and the Occult:
Like Lambs to the Slaughter," Harvest House, Eugene
OR, (1989), Page 185.
Bethancourt
III,
"Halloween,
Myths,
Perspective,"
at:
http://www.webzonecom.com/
The
Watchman
Fellowship
at:
http://www.watchman.org/
Rowan Moonstone, "The Origins of Halloween"
at: http://www.geocities.com/
Patrick Dineen, "An Irish English Dictionary"
(Dublin, 1927), Page 937 Quoted in 12
Malcolm
MacLennan,
"A
Pronouncing
and
Communication
Consortium,
at:
http://www.execpc.com/
Richard
Bucher,
"Can
Christians
Celebrate