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in reply to a message by Nanaea
Interesting.
I had never heard of Candlemass or groundhog day even though I live in one of the northern European counties, which the page seems to refer to.
In danish a groundhog is called a "Jordegern" which directly translated would be something like "earth squirrel".
Perhaps the americans think of them as a kind of underground pigs, while the danes think of them as a kind of underground squirrels, languagewise that is.
-Selwyn
I had never heard of Candlemass or groundhog day even though I live in one of the northern European counties, which the page seems to refer to.
In danish a groundhog is called a "Jordegern" which directly translated would be something like "earth squirrel".
Perhaps the americans think of them as a kind of underground pigs, while the danes think of them as a kind of underground squirrels, languagewise that is.
-Selwyn
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Selwyn
In the Wicca/Neopaganism circles it's called Imbolc. It's one of the greater Sabbats (along with Beltaine, Samhain, and one I can't recall just now). :(
You might be able to find out more in Margot Addler's Drawing Down the Moon (preferrable second or third edition).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
In the Wicca/Neopaganism circles it's called Imbolc. It's one of the greater Sabbats (along with Beltaine, Samhain, and one I can't recall just now). :(
You might be able to find out more in Margot Addler's Drawing Down the Moon (preferrable second or third edition).
Phyllis (aka Sidhe Uaine or Gaia Euphoria)
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