Lammas Festival

Lammas is the first of the autumn festivals.  The festival that celebrates the annual wheat harvest and is the first harvest festival of the year. 

It was believed that breaking the baked wheat loaf into 4 pieces and placing a piece at each corner of the wheat barn would protect it until it was all used. 

Lammas meaning "Loaf Mass", we are giving thanks for all that has grown and will keep us going.

At Lammas the Goddess is in Her aspect as Grain Mother, Harvest Mother, Harvest Queen, Earth Mother, Ceres and Demeter. Demeter, as Corn Mother, represents the ripe corn of this year's harvest and Her daughter Kore/Persephone represents the grain - the seed which drops back deep into the dark earth, hidden throughout the winter, and re-appears in the spring as new growth. This is the deep core meaning of Lammas and comes in different guises.