Tuesday 13 October 2009

Rituals involving pumpkins

Harvest Moon Pumpkin Ritual
On the 3rd October the people of Beaker folk of Husbourne Crawley partake in the 'Harvest moon pumpkin ritual'. They use the big orange pumpkin as a symbol of the sun and is the central point for this time if year, They light up the pumpkins from the inside and put them on their worship focus table in the Moot house, its there to remind them that the warm days of summer will return.
They also use a white pumpkin to symbolise the moon with will also be put on the table as the orange one is carried away. This is to remember the time of the full harvest moon.


The Great Pumpkin Ritual
In the October month teenagers in New England use to leave pumpkins on the lawns of people who they like, as a love offering. it is said that this started out as a biological urge to find a mate to hibernate with for the winter. Teens would leave 1, 2, 3 or more depending on how much they liked the person on their lawn and sometimes say the day after "did you get my pumpkin" its like an email or a text.
however if there was a teacher that the teens really disliked then they would leave as many pumpkins as they could get on their lawn.


The Holy Tinite Ritual of Pumpkin Sacrifice
This pumpkin ritual has only been performed twice so far by the oficial founder of the Chruch of Tina Chopp, the first was in November 1990 and the second in March 1991.
The High Priest carrys the pumpkin up to the top of a tower where it is blessed and then dropped of the edge. while the pumpkin falls the Tinties sing 'hail tinas' and when the punpkin has splatted everywhere the high priest leans over and figures out the spiritual message that 'Tina' has sent to them.

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