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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:24 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:26 pm
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:47 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:05 pm
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 9:46 pm
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 10:04 pm
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Sanguina Cruenta Long nights, more bats, no? Or is that more where I live? We get spiders year round too. It might just be where you live. I expect that, since bugs are hibernating by late October, the bats would be, too.
The only spiders you're going to see in the winter are the ones that come inside the house. The ones that leave the pretty webs are gone by Halloween.
Quote: And why no ghouls and skeletons? This is the day of the dead for many of us; they're the best part. *facepalm* Why did I say "ghouls?" I meant something more along the lines of goblins - y'know, critters that aren't undead. XP
But yeah, skeletons do make sense. Awhile after I wrote that, I thought to myself, "wait, those do make sense in the death symbolism bit..."
I dunno. I guess it's just that after awhile, I sorta started viewing the time as when the earth tucked itself in for the winter, a time of a more metaphorical death (that whole seasonal thing) than literal death. I'm not sure why, and I'm not sure when, but that's how it happened. razz
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 11:09 pm
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:42 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:47 am
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Sanguina Cruenta Vice Captain
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 7:09 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 8:54 am
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Sanguina Cruenta It's a time of literal death as well. Less food. Less prey. Thin times for some animals and for humans if your harvest was bad. Storms can kill, cold can kill.
I grew up rural, and that hasn't left people who farm, or hunt. Lughnassadh/Lammas is first harvest - that of fruit and veg, of grain. Mabon/Equinox is second harvest - that which comes off the vine, and the last of the trees as the sap runs back down into the Earth for the winter. Samhain is the third harvest - blood, and bone; the slaughter of your animals for winter survival.
It's the last threshold. If you're not ready by then, and the harvest wasn't great...it can be a really hard winter.
Where I live, as well, the snow starts flying well before Samhain...usually mid-October. We live in a snowbelt, so you make sure the house is well-stocked, since the roads are often too bad to drive, and the highway closes. We may have a buffer in our heating and hospitals and stores...but when the power grid's down, your heat's gone, and you've only got what you've got...you're back to the old ways.
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Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 5:01 pm
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Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:45 pm
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Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2009 7:27 am
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