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Oct 31, 2026
NellyHOST
It's pronounced Samhain.
NellyHOST
The word itself comes from Old Irish and literally means summer's end.
NellyHOST
Just know ancient Irish looks one way and is never pronounced that way.
NellyHOST
Samhain is mentioned in several early Irish texts, such as The Wooing of Emmer, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, and Senkhasmar, which all reveal it as both a time of feasting and of supernatural encounters.
NellyHOST
It's pronounced Samhain.
NellyHOST
The word itself comes from Old Irish and literally means summer's end.
NellyHOST
Just know ancient Irish looks one way and is never pronounced that way.
NellyHOST
Samhain is mentioned in several early Irish texts, such as The Wooing of Emmer, The Cattle Raid of Cooley, and Senkhasmar, which all reveal it as both a time of feasting and of supernatural encounters.
KelciHOST
Well, one other big one that a lot of people know is Samhain, which is more of an ancient Gaelic festival.
KelciHOST
In Old Irish, it actually means summer's end.
KelciHOST
And that is also celebrated around the same time, October 31st to November 1st.
KelciHOST
And those core themes are around summer.
Henry HawkHOST
And it's been translated, but basically it is now held in the British Library.
Henry HawkHOST
It belongs to a collection known as Lach Nunga, meaning remedies, which contains medical recipes, charms, and invocations in Old English, Latin, and Old Irish.
Henry HawkHOST
And the interesting thing is that the manuscript preserves a mixture of medical knowledge with religious material that is kind of a combination of herbal remedies, spoken ritual, and Christian prayer all kind of combined.
Henry HawkHOST
And it's fascinating.
James HakeHOST
as well as parts of continental Europe.
James HakeHOST
Irish Druids in Ireland, known as Drui in Old Irish, they served as powerful spiritual advisors, prophets, and magicians to pre-Christian Irish kings.
James HakeHOST
Okay, so let me ask, did they help found...
James HakeHOST
Halloween, the Irish Druids.
Ryan GableHOST
The final judgment in the end times of the year, your judgment is based upon whether or not you were prepared for the pale horse and what it represents.
Ryan GableHOST
Now, the name Samhain or Samhain comes from Old Irish.
Ryan GableHOST
It means summer's end.
Ryan GableHOST
This Celtic festival and tradition led to the creation of our modern Halloween.
Darren MarlarHOST
and the name reveals everything.
Darren MarlarHOST
It translates from Old Irish as Summer's End, and those two words carried genuine terror.
Darren MarlarHOST
Summer was over, the darkness was coming, and with it came something else.
Darren MarlarHOST
The Celts didn't see time as a straight line marching forward.
Darren MarlarHOST
They called this night Samhain, and the name reveals everything.
Darren MarlarHOST
It translates from Old Irish as Summer's End, and those two words carried genuine terror.
Darren MarlarHOST
Summer was over, the darkness was coming, and with it came something else.
Darren MarlarHOST
The Celts didn't see time as a straight line marching forward.
RebeccaHOST
There's a story of the Kaliak and you might have heard of the Kaliak.
RebeccaHOST
Her name in Old Gaelic means the veiled one.
RebeccaHOST
But in modern Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Kaliak means old woman or hag.
RebeccaHOST
And it's funny how hag has become like this insult in modern English.
Gary WayneGUEST
Yeah, as in that car, as in also as in like a superhuman, Uber, supernatural.
Gary WayneGUEST
And it also shows up in Old Gaelic and the languages of England as Uper as well.
Gary WayneGUEST
And it shows up as a transliteration of Oberon in Shakespeare as the king of the fairies.
Gary WayneGUEST
And of course, the Tuatha D'od and then Scythian related people are also the fair folk and the fairies.
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