This was the "Grain Festival," also called the "Feast of Bread," or the "Sports Fest."
Date: August 1, traditionally celebrated 15 days before and 15 days after, with Lugnassadh in the middle.
Modern Equivalent: Half-mass (Christianized form).
Alignment: Male for Druids, Female for the Motherhood (who celebrated the event to the Lunar Mother upon the full moon adjoining August 1); cross-quarter, psychic high-tide of full moon adjoining August-Eve.
Customs: Games, competitions, Olympic-like events, feasting, temporary marriages/Hand Fasting (a trial for "a year and a day"), Lammas Towers (fire-building team competition, AKA: Kindling Night), spear tossing, gathering Golden Pipes of Lleu (IE: Matricaria) and Yellow Trefoil for crowns, Fencing/sword sports.
Symbols: Wheat stalk (symbolic of Lugh's Magic Spear), loaves of bread, a spear, Golden Pipes, scythe/sickle.
Sacred Foods: Grain Breads, golden/dandelion wine, poultry/foul, fish (no red meat), gruels/cakes, oatmeal cookies, early corn, strawberries.
Threshold Time: High Noon.
Incense: Golden Pipes [special note: also known in the Welsh Ogham system as Furse), marigold, sun-flower, and oat straw.
Celtic God form: Lug/Lugh/Lleu/Llew, the ancient Grain God, who is sacrificed and resurrected to honor the Harvest/Earth Mother Agusta; patron god of games and festivities.
