Litha

In our own time, many of us still carry on the tradition in the first week of the month: to astronomers with faith in math and science, it will occur this year on February 3rd; to Christians who observe their "cross-quarter" holiday between Christmas and Easter, February 2nd is known as Candlemas in northern latitudes and Lammas or Litha in the southern hemisphere.

Brighid, Goddess In-Between | miscellani.org 2010

Lithium carbonate for those schizophrenic witches who still want to ride their bikes socially on Litha without psychosis and use in their lithium perchlorate batteries for their lights on midsummer eve.

Sightings: Ice, Missed Connections, and UFO-Seeking Freak Bikes BikeSnobNYC 2009

Litha is the festival of Midsummer, associated with fire and the Sun.

RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

The sixth month of the year, corresponding approximately to the Roman and modern month of June, was called Litha.

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Litha July and Trilithi: the early English calen...

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Many cultures, from the Catholics with St. John's Day to the Wiccans with Litha, observe the solstice as a time to feast and gather with like-minded worshippers.

Lindsay Mannering: Summertime Spirits, And I Don't Mean Booze 2008

Like its counterpart in the winter, Giuli from which we get the word Yule, Litha was a double-length month, or two months of the same name, placed either side of the midsummer solstice.

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If so, it could be a link between ‘Litha’ and ‘-leth’.

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Since Litha bracketed the midsummer solstice in the same way that Giuli bracketed the midwinter solstice, it would seem a reasonable inference that the midsummer solstice was also celebrated in some way.

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Clearly the early English applied this hybrid approach, adding an extra month to Litha to keep the lunar months in line with the solar years.

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