Morris Dancers celebrate the harvest in Lincoln
Found moments on the streets of Lincoln
A series of photographs showing Lincoln street scenes from various viewpoints. A group of visiting Morris Dancers prepares for a dance in uphill Lincoln. They had travelled all the way from Leyland in Lancashire!
Morris Dancing is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two people, steps are near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid one across the other on the floor. They clap their sticks, swords, or handkerchiefs together to match with the dance.
More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_dance
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them.
Lammas or Lughnasadh is the first of the three Wiccan harvest festivals, the other two being the autumnal equinox (or Mabon) and Samhain.
Mabon - the holiday of the autumnal equinox, Harvest Home, the Feast of the Ingathering, Meán Fómhair, An Clabhsúr, or Alban Elfed (in Neo-Druid traditions), is a modern Pagan ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and the Gods during the coming winter months.
Samhain is considered by Wiccans to be one of the four Greater Sabbats. Samhain is considered by some as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets, and other loved ones who have died. Aligned with the contemporary observance of Halloween and Day of the Dead.
More on the Pagan Festivals here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year
You can see a random selection of my photos here at Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/9815422@N06/random/
Morris Dancers celebrate the harvest in Lincoln
Found moments on the streets of Lincoln
A series of photographs showing Lincoln street scenes from various viewpoints. A group of visiting Morris Dancers prepares for a dance in uphill Lincoln. They had travelled all the way from Leyland in Lancashire!
Morris Dancing is a form of English folk dance usually accompanied by music. It is based on rhythmic stepping and the execution of choreographed figures by a group of dancers, usually wearing bell pads on their shins. Implements such as sticks, swords and handkerchiefs may also be wielded by the dancers. In a small number of dances for one or two people, steps are near and across a pair of clay tobacco pipes laid one across the other on the floor. They clap their sticks, swords, or handkerchiefs together to match with the dance.
More here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_dance
The Wheel of the Year is an annual cycle of seasonal festivals, observed by many modern Pagans, consisting of the year's chief solar events (solstices and equinoxes) and the midpoints between them.
Lammas or Lughnasadh is the first of the three Wiccan harvest festivals, the other two being the autumnal equinox (or Mabon) and Samhain.
Mabon - the holiday of the autumnal equinox, Harvest Home, the Feast of the Ingathering, Meán Fómhair, An Clabhsúr, or Alban Elfed (in Neo-Druid traditions), is a modern Pagan ritual of thanksgiving for the fruits of the earth and a recognition of the need to share them to secure the blessings of the Goddess and the Gods during the coming winter months.
Samhain is considered by Wiccans to be one of the four Greater Sabbats. Samhain is considered by some as a time to celebrate the lives of those who have passed on, and it often involves paying respect to ancestors, family members, elders of the faith, friends, pets, and other loved ones who have died. Aligned with the contemporary observance of Halloween and Day of the Dead.
More on the Pagan Festivals here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year
You can see a random selection of my photos here at Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/9815422@N06/random/