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I come
from battle and conflict
With a shield in my hand;
Broken is the helmet by the pushing of
spears.
Round-hoofed is my horse,
the torment of battle,
Whilst
I am called Gwynn the son of Nudd,
The lover of
Creudylad [Creiddyledd;
Creiddylad],
the daughter of Lludd.
Today is the day of Gwynn ap Nudd, Welsh King of the Fairies
Gwyn, son of Nudd, the hope of armies,
legions fall before thy conquering arm, swifter than broken rushes
to the ground.
Gwyddno
Source
At Michaelmas time, or a little before,
Half an apple goes to the core;
At Christmas
time, or a little after,
A crab in the hedge,
And thanks to the rafter.
Traditional
English proverb
If you eat goose on Michaelmas Day, you will not be short of money all year round.
Traditional English proverb
A Michaelmas rot comes ne'er in the pot.
Traditional English proverb
More
Michaelmas quotes and lore
In his youth, [Pompey's] countenance pleaded for him,
seeming to anticipate his eloquence, and win upon the affections of
the people before he spoke. His beauty even in his bloom of youth had
something in it at once of gentleness and dignity; and when his prime
of manhood came, the majesty and kingliness of his character at once
became visible in it. His hair sat somewhat hollow or rising a little;
and this, with the languishing motion of his eyes, seemed to form a
resemblance in his face, though perhaps more talked of than really
apparent, to the statues of the King Alexander [the Great]. And
because many applied that name to him in his youth, Pompey himself did
not decline it, insomuch that some called him so in derision.
Plutarch; Life of Pompey;
Pompey the
Great, Roman
general and politician, born on September 29, 106 BCE
A leap over the hedge is better than good men's prayers.
Miguel de Cervantes, Spanish author, born on September 29, 1547; Don
Quixote, I. 21 |
Archangel Michael killing Satan, by Albrecht Dürer
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The truth lies in a man's dreams ...
perhaps in this unhappy world of ours a worse madness is better than
a foolish sanity.
Miguel de Cervantes; ibid, I. 23
Hunger is the best sauce in the world.
Miguel de Cervantes; ibid, II. 5
There are only two families in the world, my old grandmother used to
say, the Haves and the Have-nots.
Miguel de Cervantes; ibid, II. 20
By God, Mr Chairman, at this moment I stand astonished at my own
moderation!
Robert, Lord Clive, British imperialist, born on September
29; speech in Parliament, 1773
Before this time tomorrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminster Abbey.
Horatio, Lord Nelson, English admiral, born on September 29, 1758, said at the
Battle of the
Nile in 1798. He was referring to the place where many famous British people are buried.
England expects every man will do his duty.
Lord Nelson; at the Battle of Trafalgar
Kiss me, Hardy.
Lord Nelson; at the Battle of Trafalgar
I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made a man of me.
Horatio Nelson
I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877, and in the month of June, when trees and flowers were in full bloom. Well, it being the holiday week in Dundee, I was sitting in my back room in Paton's Lane, Dundee, lamenting to myself because I couldn't get to the Highlands on holiday to see the beautiful scenery, when all of a sudden my body got inflamed, and instantly I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my
ears –
"WRITE! WRITE".
I wondered what could be the matter with me, and I began to walk backwards and forwards in a great fit of excitement, saying to
myself – "I know nothing about poetry." But still the voice kept ringing in my ears
– "Write, write," until at last, being overcome with a desire to write poetry, I found paper, pen, and ink, and in a state of frenzy, sat me down to think what would be my first subject for
a poem.
William Topaz McGonagall, who died on September 29, 1902; often claimed to be the world's
'best bad poet';
Autobiography Source
The success of either side is doubtful to this day,
And all that can be said is both armies ran away.
William Topaz McGonagall; ' The Battle of Sheriffmuir'
When the moon is upside doon,
The fishes swim from Ayr to Troon.
But when the moon is fresh and fair,
The fishes swim from Troon to Ayr.
William Topaz McGonagall
A chicken is a noble beast,
The cow is much forlorner;
Standing in the pouring rain,
With a leg at every corner.
William Topaz McGonagall
Oh! Beautiful city of Glasgow.
With your steam reciprocating engin's
At the building of which,
Your men get many singeins.
William Topaz McGonagall
The Tay! The Tay!
The Silv'ry Tay
It goes up to Perth,
And back twice a day!
William Topaz McGonagall; ' The Tay Bridge Disaster'
It must have been an awful sight,
To witness in the dusky moonlight,
While the Storm Fiend did laugh, and angry did bray,
Along the Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,
Oh! ill-fated Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay,
I must now conclude my lay
By telling the world fearlessly without the least dismay,
That your central girders would not have given way,
At least many sensible men do say,
Had they been supported on each side with buttresses,
At least many sensible men confesses,
For the stronger we our houses do build,
The less chance we have of being killed.
William Topaz McGonagall; ibid
The last Sabbath day of 1879
Which will be remembered for a very long time
William Topaz McGonagall; ibid
Determinations, how
Must I name this
Time and know this season?
Like travellers
Richard Howard, ' September Twenty-Ninth' Source
We were aware of the fact that we had a new concept of the music by no other means than the enmity amongst the musicians. The old musicians who didn't want to go through a change. When you have a lot of static, you know you must be on the right track, 'cause if it's easy it's not worth it.
Dizzy
Gillespie, American jazz trumpeter whose first Carnegie Hall concert was on September 29, 1947;
Downbeat magazine, May 1972
Anarchists ... are one of the few political forces to be taken seriously in the USSR.
Anatoly Lukyanov, president of the Supreme Soviet, 1991 (see 1921
below)
How can I know who's PM or in Government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!
Anita Ekberg, Swedish actress, born on September 29, 1931
Anita Ekberg might not have been much of an actress, but she was the only one who could play herself.
Roger Ebert,
film reviewer
Anita Ekberg is the thinking man's dunce cap – two of them!
Ethel Merman
(1909 - 1984)
The greatest thing to come out of Sweden since smorgasbord! Her parents got the Nobel Prize for architecture.
Bob Hope
(1903 - 2003) on Anita Ekberg
I like three things ... love, love and love.
Anita Ekberg; in
La Dolce Vita
It was back in September 1986 that we were preparing for a flotilla of international warships coming in to Sydney Harbour. I saw the ship coming through the heads, right down the middle of the harbour in the shipping lane, and at that point, the driver of the Zodiac I was in went full speed ahead straight down the middle and dead stop about 300 metres before the warship. And I paddled and grabbed hold of the nose and went for what was quite a historic ride up Sydney Harbour, which was an exhilarating event.
I was then tagged as 'That Guy Who Rode The Surfboard', as a bit of a maniac, an idiot, but committed. A lot of people said, "Well, we don't agree with your tactics, but we do agree with what you're saying." Well, here I am in my parliamentary office looking out at the scene of what really launched me 16 years ago on the harbour.
Ian Cohen, MLC
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Feast of St Michael and All Angels
(Michaelmas)
(One of the four Irish
Quarter days in the Irish
calendar. Michaelmas
daisy, Aster
tradescanti
[Aster
spp], is
today's plant, dedicated to St Michael.)
Today is a Christian
feast derived from the old pagan Autumn
Equinox feasts. This Christian saint, Prince of All Angels, is a
dragon-slaying archangel who was the leader of the army
of God during the Lucifer uprising, casting
Satan out of Paradise. He is one of only two angels named in the Bible,
the other being Gabriel, who shares his feast day. Michael is associated with the planet Mercury. Muslims,
Christians and Jews all express devotion to him, and there are writings
about him in all three religions. Considered the guardian angel of Israel, Michael's name means in Hebrew, 'Who is like God?'.
His
name was the war-cry of the good angels in the battle fought in heaven
against the enemy and his
followers. Only four times is his name to be found in Christian
Scripture:
§
Daniel 10:13 ff; Daniel
12 (the Angel speaking of the end of the
world with the Antichrist saying: "At that time shall Michael rise
up, the great prince, who standeth for the children of thy people.");
§
In the Catholic Epistle
of St Jude: ("When Michael the Archangel, disputing with the devil,
contended about the body of Moses …");
§
Revelation 12:7 ("And there was a great
battle in heaven, Michael and his angels fought with the dragon"). St
John speaks of the great conflict at the end of time, which reflects also
the battle in heaven at the beginning of time.
When the
Temple of Jerusalem was sacked in 70 CE,
Michael's loud voice was heard from it, saying "Let us depart
hence!", and then an invisible army was heard leaving. Or, so it is
said.
The patron
saint of warriors and police is also guardian of the souls of the dead,
weighing their good and bad deeds in his scales, according to Christian
tradition. Michael is also the patron of grocers, paratroopers and
radiologists, among many others*. St Michael also guards the body of Eve,
according to the apocryphal Revelation of Moses.
Churches on
hilltops were often named after St Michael. The Prince of All Angels is
the bringer of the gift of prudence. St Michael is represented in
religious art as a handsome youth with wings and armour; he has a stern
face and, like St George, bears a dragon-slaying sword and shield. He
might carry scales as well, to weigh the good and bad deeds of the dead.
He might be depicted as an angelic warrior, fully armed with helmet,
sword, and shield (often the shield bears the Latin inscription: Quis
ut Deus), standing over the dragon, whom he sometimes pierces with a
lance. He also holds a pair of scales in which he weighs the souls of the
deceased, or the book of life, to show that he takes part in the judgment.
Angel of healing springs
Tradition
has it that St Michael in ancient times caused a medicinal spring to spout
at Chairotopa near Colossae, where all the sick who bathed there and
invoked the names of the Trinity
and St Michael, were cured ...
Read on at the Michaelmas
page in the Scriptorium
Feast
of the Apparition of St Michael is May 8
* St Michael's patronage includes:
Against temptations, ambulance drivers,
artists,
bakers,
bankers,
banking,
battle,
boatmen,
Brussels Belgium,
coopers,
Cornwall England,
danger at sea,
dying people,
England,
fencing,
Germany,
greengrocers,
grocers,
haberdashers,
hatmakers,
hatters,
knights,
Papua-New Guinea,
paramedics,
paratroopers,
police officers,
radiologists,
sailors,
security forces,
security guards,
Sibenik Croatia,
sick people,
soldiers,
storms at sea,
swordsmiths,
watermen Source
St Michael is congruent with Elegba, Elegua,
Legba in the Santeria/Voodoun pantheon.
Elegua is the gatekeeper between life and death. He is the trickster, Janus, Raven,
Coyote, Eshu, Hecate, Jupiter.
Diane
Stein, The
Goddess Book of Days, Llewellyn Publications, St Paul Minnesota,
USA, 1989 (take with a grain of salt)
"Michael is the Prince
Regent of Mercury, the sign of Leo. He is Prince of Light, Prince of
Virtue, Prince of the Archangels, Angel of the Catholic Church, Guardian
angel of Israel and Germany, Angel of the Earth, and Prince of God. It is
said that it was he who gave the tablets of the Ten Commandments to Moses
in Sinai.
"He is the angel who
rescued Saint Peter from prison, and the prophet Daniel from the lion's
den, and it will be Michael who will descend from Heaven on the Day of
Final Judgement.
"Michael ... rules
Sunday, the sun, money, and growth. His Color is yellow gold; Number is 6;
Stones, ruby, peridot, citrine diamond, amber, topaz ; Trees, pine, date,
walnut, oak; Plants, laurel, mistletoe, chamomile; Flower, sunflower,
yellow chrysanthemum; Element, fire; Metal, gold; and his Signs are Leo,
Aries and Sagittarius."
Source
Folklore,
customs, pre-Christian origins of:
Epiphany Candlemas/Imbolc
Hall Sunday
Collop Monday Shrove Tuesday/Pancake
Day
Ash
Wednesday & Lent Mid-Lent Care Sunday Painful Friday Lazarus Saturday
Palm
Sunday Spy
Wednesday Maundy Thursday Good Friday Easter Saturday Easter
Easter Monday Easter Tuesday Hocktide Ascension Rogation Days Whitsunday/Whitsuntide
Corpus
Christi May Day/Beltaine
Lammas/Lughnasadh
Michaelmas
Halloween/Samhain
Martinmas
Advent Christmas Eve Christmas
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Guido Reni's
archangel Michael (in the Capuchin church of
Sta. Maria della Concezione, Rome) tramples a Satan
with the vividly recognizable features of Pope Innocent X
(pictured at right).
"In Normandy St. Michael
is the patron of mariners in his famous sanctuary at Mont-Saint-Michel in
the Diocese of
Coutances. He is said to have appeared there, in
708, to St. Aubert, Bishop of Avranches. In Normandy his feast "S.
Michaelis in periculo maris" or "in Monte Tumba" was
universally celebrated on 18 Oct., the anniversary of the dedication of the
first church, 16 Oct., 710; the feast is now
confined to the Diocese
of Coutances. In Germany,
after its evangelization, St. Michael replaced for the Christians the pagan god Wotan, to
whom many mountains were sacred, hence the numerous mountain chapels of
St. Michael all over Germany."
Source: Catholic
Encyclopedia
Of saints and serpents*
Many Christian saints
are known to have been
associated with dragons; some are dragon-slayers, while some are depicted
in art with dragons for various other reasons, such as a representation of
Satan (dragons
and serpents are quite numerous in the Bible).
They include: Saints Anatolia and Audax,
Andrew
Abellon, Adelphus,
Armel
(Armagillus) of Brittany, Armentaire (Armentarius
of Antibes) of Draguignan, Attracta, Barlaam, Cadoc, Catherine, Celestine I, Clement, Columba, Donatus, Dometius of Phrygia, George,
Germanus, Gilbert of
Caithness, Godehard
of Hildesheim, Guthlac,
Hilarion of Gaza,
Hilary of Poitiers,
John the Divine,
John of Reomay,
Julian of Le Mans,
Juliana of
Nicomedia, Keyne,
Liphardus (Lifard) of Orléans,
Magnus of Füssen,
Marcellus of
Avignon, Marcellus (Marceau)
of Paris, Margaret
of Antioch, Margaret
of Scotland, Martha,
Michael, Paul the Apostle,
Perpetua, Philip, Samson of Dol,
Brittany, Simeon
Stylites, Sylvester,
Theodore Sratelates,
Theodore Tiro, Victor of
Marseille,
Victoria, Virgin
Mary.
Saints associated with snakes or snakebite: Dominic of Sora, Hilary of Poitiers,
Magnus of Füssen,
Patrick, Paul the Apostle,
Pirmin, Vitus.
*Know any more info? You might like to tell
me at Corrigenda.
More fun for dragon hunters
The Rogation Days are
a prime source of dragon legends in Britain.
Pickled dragon hoax
Feast of the
Dragon, China Snap the Dragon
Day of the Fire
Dragons Dragon and Japan's
Suwa Shrine Dragon in Slovenia
Geronimo's dragon
tale Beating the
dragon, England Ladon the dragon
Dragon boat
fest
Hindu goddess
Sarasvati and dragon Dragons over
London, 1222 Dragons battle,
England, 1449
D.R.A.G.O.N.S.
Dragons of the
British Isles List of dragons
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Michaelmas
lore
Michael's feast day,
Michaelmas (September 29 – pron. 'mikulmus), is
traditionally one of the
English quarter days, for settling rents and
accounts, a custom that is rarely observed today. Because this was also the time of the
'geese harvest', farmers often settled their landlords' accounts
with a brace of plump birds from spring hatchings.
And
when the tenauntes come
To paie their quarter's rent,
They bring some fowle at Midsummer,
A dish of fish in Lent,
At Christmas a capon,
At Michaelmas, a goose,
And somewhat else at New-yere's tide
For feare the lease flie loose.
George
Gascoigne, English
poet, 1577
In the Middle
Ages, Michaelmas was celebrated as a holy day of obligation, but along
with several other feasts it has been gradually abolished since the 18th
Century. Michaelmas also used to be the day in England for choosing
magistrates and bailiffs, whereupon the people used to go into the streets
and throw cabbage stalks at each other, in a ritual called the lawless hour, following which
the bailiffs paraded through the town. Local rulers were esteemed in a way
similar to angels, and as Michael was the leader of angels, it was deemed
appropriate to choose leaders on this day.
The Lord Mayor of London was elected not by the
populace but by the liverymen of the city's eighty-one guilds, such as
grocers, mariners and musicians. The voting took place at the Guildhall,
on floors strewn with aromatic herbs, under strict rules and rituals that
began in the 1190s and went on for many centuries.
Angelic silences
Today being the feast of St Michael and All
Angels, it is timely to note a bit of folklore about those strange silences
that sometimes befall a group engaged in conversation. It used to be said
that an angel had passed by on such an occasion, taking off the conversation
to record in a heavenly tome, to bring out on Judgement Day as evidence
either in favour of or against the speakers.
Michaelmas
goose, Michaelmas fairs
It
was a day for the eating of geese (hence 'Michaelmas goose'), probably
because geese are plentiful and plump in this season. Throughout the Celtic regions, the end
of September marked the end of the harvest when
rural people would have to decide which of their beasts they would feed
over winter, according to their own budget, and which would be preserve as
salted, dried or pickled meat. This was a time of livestock fairs, and
also hiring fairs where farm labourers presented themselves almost as
commodities on show, to gain winter employment after the harvest.
An important English
Michaelmas fair was the Tavistock Goosey Fair held at Tavistock
on Dartmoor, where the song was sung:
Te jist a
month cum Vriday nex'
Bill Champernown an' me
Us druv a-crost ole Dartymoor
Th' Goozey Vair to zee.
The story was long
told that the reason that people eat goose at Michaelmas is that when
Queen Elizabeth I was dining with Sir Neville Umfreyville on September 29,
1588, she heard news that the Spanish Armada had been defeated. The queen
is said to have exclaimed " Henceforth shall a goose commemorate this
great victory". The problem with this tradition is that the Armada was
defeated in July.
In Ireland, where Michaelmas marked the end of the fishing
season, the beginning of the hunting season, the traditional time to pick
apples and also the time to make cider, St Michael's feast was a
joyful day of celebration ...
More of today's folklore at the Michaelmas page in the Scriptorium
St Michael in art
Michael at Wikipedia
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March 24)
Traditionally, a day of
orderliness. It was commemorated for centuries on March 24,
the day before the
Annunciation (or,
Lady Day, which remembers the day
Mary
conceived Jesus), but has been transferred by the Catholic Church to
September 29, which Gabriel now shares with fellow archangels, Michael
and Raphael.
Gabriel, or
Jibril, is an important angel in the Muslim, as well as the Jewish
and Christian faiths (the illustration at right is an Islamic
portrayal of the saint).
Gabriel is the patron
saint of communications (chiefly because of the messages he
delivered for God – the word 'angel' means 'messenger'),
and the Internet you are now using.
His patronage
includes
Argentinian ambassadors,
broadcasters,
clergy,
diplomats,
messengers,
philatelists,
postal workers,
radio,
radio workers,
secular clergy,
telecommunications workers,
telegraphs,
telephones,
television, and
television workers.
The official
Catholic site writes:
"'Fortitudo Dei', one of the three
archangels mentioned in the Bible. Only four appearances of Gabriel
are recorded:
"In Dan., viii, he explains the vision of the
horned ram as portending the destruction of the Persian Empire by
the Macedonian Alexander the Great, after whose death the kingdom
will be divided up among his generals, from one of whom will spring
Antiochus Epiphanes.
"In chapter ix, after Daniel had prayed for
Israel, we read that "the man Gabriel . . . . flying swiftly
touched me" and he communicated to him the mysterious prophecy
of the "seventy weeks" of years which should elapse before
the coming of Christ. In chapter x, it is not clear whether the
angel is Gabriel or not, but at any rate we may apply to him the
marvellous description in verses 5 and 6.
"In N.T. he foretells to Zachary the birth of the
Precursor, and to Mary
that of the Saviour." Source
"We are reminded of that modest Jewish girl Mariam
(Mary), whose life was completely changed by the message which the
Angel Gabriel, did bring to her, being that she would give birth to
a son who would be called Essa (Jesus)."
Angels and
Jinns, Celestial Beings (Muslim article)
"This archangel stands in the west, where
the sun sets, sealing the door to evil. When the earth is covered
with darkness, night is associated with negative forces.
"When a person dies, God sends Gabriel to
Earth to retrieve that person's spirit and guide it to its place of
rest. Gabriel's name means "God is my Power." He is often depicted
with a trumpet, and it is believed that he will sound his trumpet to
awaken the souls of the dead on Judgement Day. It is said of Gabriel
that he is the angel who ripens all the fruits on earth.
"Gabriel rules Monday, the moon and all
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