Autumn Equinox 2009
Mabon Stone, Gretna, Scotland
The Autumn Equinox or Harvest Home is also called Mabon, pronounced 'MAY-bon', after the Welsh god Mabon ap Modron, which means literally 'son of mother'.
So we set off to Scotland to view the "Mabon Stone":
The Mabon stone was named for Mabon, the Celtic God of fertility, corn harvest, equilibrium and equinox. The day of autumnal equinox we experience equal hours of light & darkness. The Northern hemisphere transcends into Autumn and Winter and the Southern hemisphere into Spring and Summer. It is where the Celtic culture celebrated and empathised with nature.
After walking around for hours under bad weather conditions we found what we thought must be the stone but it was not what we expected. Later, climbing out of a farm enclosure into the farm drive, the owner explained that she had not seen the stone even though it was in the next farm, she had heard that it had 'fell over', checking it out again I am sure it is the stone but obviously now part of a hedge.
Dave
So we set off to Scotland to view the "Mabon Stone":
The Mabon stone was named for Mabon, the Celtic God of fertility, corn harvest, equilibrium and equinox. The day of autumnal equinox we experience equal hours of light & darkness. The Northern hemisphere transcends into Autumn and Winter and the Southern hemisphere into Spring and Summer. It is where the Celtic culture celebrated and empathised with nature.
After walking around for hours under bad weather conditions we found what we thought must be the stone but it was not what we expected. Later, climbing out of a farm enclosure into the farm drive, the owner explained that she had not seen the stone even though it was in the next farm, she had heard that it had 'fell over', checking it out again I am sure it is the stone but obviously now part of a hedge.
Dave
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