[[celtic-religion]] [[festivals]] - "related to the beginning of open pasturing, and was celebrated to welcome the summer and heat of the sun which would ripen the crops. Bonfires were kindled in sympathetic magic to encourage the sun's warmth on earth. The ninth century AD glossator Cormac describes a Beltene ritual in which two fires were ignited by the druids and livestock driven between them in a magical ritual of fertility and purification." [~~LIKE MOGOLS?]  #lookinto Sources: ([[green-mi1990]]:55 or [[leeming-d2003]]) #cleanup