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Category: Yule
What to Bring: Item for potluck feast (non-alcoholic please!)
Price/Donation: Free
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Acct. Id: 374613
Event Id: 74174
Posted: Dec.6.2010
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Unitarian Universalist Pagans & Sunna announces...
Mothernight
When: Dec. 18th. 2010
Where: Charleston, West Virginia
Mothernight
Event Details: **UPDATES! UPDATES! Read below!**
You are invited to attend a modern Mothernight celebration at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Charleston, WV! Ritual will be preceeded by a Pagan Meet 'n Greet!
Mothernight is a traditional pre-Christian Germanic observance marking the beginning of Yule and honouring one's disir, the ancestral mothers and familial goddesses of each family who look after their families, seeing to their health, prosperity, and benefit. It is also a traditional time of year for making offerings to various Goddesses associated with motherhood and creativity (or all kinds) .
Our Mothernight observance will feature a faining (ritual) honouring Dame Holda, Lady of the Elder Tree and Goddess of winter, spinning and textile work, wortcunning (herbal magic) , the dead, and knowledge of the natural world, who fares across the night sky on the back of her sacred bird, the goose. Holda is the special protector of women and children, and is one of the Goddesses traditionally honoured at this time of year. In connection with this, offerings will be made to the collective disir of all present, with each participant having the chance to make prayers to their disir.
The faining will by followed by a minne symbel, or memory round, where each participant will have the opportunity to honour a woman from their family who has passed away that they feel still watches over them. Following the symbel there will be a potluck feast and activities for the kids (and kids at heart!) .
4:00pm - Pagan Potluck
5:30pm - Offerings to the landvaettir & warding of the grounds
6:00pm - Holda & Disir Faining
7:00pm - Minne Symbel
8:00 - 10:00pm - Feast and Fun!
All participants are asked to bring an item for the potluck - preferably an item that was a favourite food of one of their disir!
This is a *non-alcoholic* event - please do not bring any food or drink items containing alcohol.
Times may be subject to flex due to winter weather conditions - any updates to the event will be posted here!
Hope to see you there!
Event Location: 520 Kanawha Boulevard in Charleston
Event TIME Details: 4:00pm - 10:00pm
Directions: From the north or northeast via Interstate 77 or 79:
As you approach Charleston, stay to the right, following the sign for 64 West toward Huntington. Take exit 58C, for Washington Street / Civic Center. Continue in the exit lane, ( left of Go-Mart) onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Continue to the end of the avenue at the Kanawha River. Then turn right (west) onto Kanawha Blvd. From this junction it is about 0.3 mile to 520 Kanawha Blvd W., which is on the NE corner of Kanawha Blvd. and Vine Street.
From the south via Interstates 77 / 64:
As you travel through Charleston, stay in the middle lane, following the sign for 64 West toward Huntington. Take exit 58C, for Washington Street / Civic Center. Continue in the exit lane, (left of Go-Mart) onto Pennsylvania Avenue. Move to the right lane and continue to the end of the avenue at the Kanawha River. Then turn right (west) onto Kanawha Blvd. From this junction it is about 0.3 mile to 520 Kanawha Blvd W., which is on the NE corner of Kanawha Blvd. and Vine Street.
From the airport: Follow the airport exit road. At the bottom of the hill, merge onto Greenbrier St., follow this to the I- 77/64 entrance (on the right) . Then follow the above directions.
From the south via 119 (Corridor G) or west via Interstate 64:
Heading into Charleston on 64, stay in the right lane as you cross the Kanawha River. Take exit 58B, Virginia St./ Civic Center, being careful of merging traffic. Stay to the left on the exit ramp, crossing Virginia street. Turn left under the interstate and then left again onto Pennsylvania Ave. Continue to the end of Pennsylvania avenue at the Kanawha River, and turn right (west) onto Kanawha Blvd. Go about 0.3 mile to 520 Kanawha Blvd W., which is on the NE corner of Kanawha Blvd. and Vine Street.
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