Help with Wiccan Mythology anybody?
I’m writing a piece on Mabon and I’m trying to get my head around the various myths/stories of the God at this time of year.
At Lammas he sacrifices his strength for the harvest and at Samhain he is Lord of the Underworld.. so is he just hanging around at Mabon? Caught between the two worlds? I’m I right in thinking he’s the Sage now?
Any helpful thoughts or opinions are welcome 
There are several Sabbats in the fall related to Celtic mythology and the harvest. Lammas (Lughnasa) revolves around the grain harvest and is related to a myth of a Lugh who is a hero of a kind of Celtic civil war and bringer of better and more prosperous society. Although Lugh is celebrated, with myths of personal sacrifice (with Osirian dying/resurrecting god motif worked in) , Lammas may have orginally commemorated Lugh’s stepmother, Tailtui (who represents the Earth Mother) who worked the fields exhaustively so that people wouldn’t die of hunger and then herself died from her efforts. It also originally may have been celebrated during the full moon in the equivalent month of August in ancient times and not August 1.
Mabon is a minor deity related to Apollo in Welsh paganism and the day relates to the neopagan kind of Thanksgiving (it is probably a neopagan, recon, Wiccan invention and not necessarily a holiday of older tradition). It is the “second harvest” (coming after Lammas) and commemorates the harvest of fruits and vegetables from the fields. It is also a time for personal review about what one has metaphorically harvested–spiritually speaking–throughout the year and how this will prepare or limit one for going forward into the new cycle. It’s the autumnal equinox and thus, it’s date, is related to the sun (an Mabon is a sun deity, related to Apollo, as mentioned, and is related to the triumph of the sun despite the coming of the dark season).
Samhain is the equivalent of New Years. Among other things, it commemorated the processing (slaughter) of livestock before the winter (ie, it was the livestock harvest). It was the cusp of the year when darkness ruled but would soon revert to light so there was the idea that this was the time of the year when one was between worlds. There was meditation on the life/death process, on the ancesters, and on preparing for coming fertility. Although we celebrate it on Oct 31, some say the official day is Nov. 1. Because such ancient holidays went by a lunar cycle calendar, the teacher I study with officially recognizes Samhain as the day of the full moon in October (the 14th this year).
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