what is hallowen.tanks?

Answer 1

Celtic origins of Hallowe'en

In the Celtic calendar, as used in the first millennium BC through to the 600s AD, the night of 31st October/1st November was the great festival of Samhain (pronounced SOW-in to rhyme with cow in). It marked the seasonal change from summer to winter. In a predominantly pastoral society it was the time to bring cattle and sheep off the high pastures on the hills and into the inbye land (close to the villages) that had grown grass all summer for them. Spiritually, it was said that the veil between the material world and the astral world (Annwn, pronounced an-noon) was thinner on this night than at other times of the year, so people could commune with their departed loved ones. (I wouldn't be surprised if there was also a warning that tramp souls could take advantage of the conditions to invade the bodies of the unwary. But I have not personally heard this from a Celtic folklorist.) I imagine this belief to be a leftover from a genuine experience in a higher age (descending treta yuga, presumably) when on certain days conditions were indeed, or could be made by rituals and mantras to be, favourable for communion between the people of earth and the recently passed-on.

I have also heard that people said that there was a cultural belief that the departed of the previous year would remain close to the earth plane until Samhain and then leave beyond reach of mortal minds. For centuries, the monks of Glastonbury Abbey enacted a ritual which seems to me derived from this. The most culturally honoured dead (kings, saints, etc) were always "buried at Glastonbury" because it was the Celtic Varanasi, the City of Light (Glas). But in the secret of a night some time after the funeral, the monks would take the bodies, or some relic, from the abbey itself by silent barge through the reedmarsh to a final resting place on a hillock some miles away called Andrewsey. Behind the English name Andrewsey is the Celtic "an drws" (and ey, an old English word for "island"). An is the Supreme Being, teh Goddess, and "drws" means "door", so the true final resting place of the celebrated departed was the Door to the Realm of the Goddess.

And when the Christian Church took power they created the festival of All Saints in order to "hallow" (make holy in terms of their rites) the "e'en" (evening) of the dead that people were going to celebrate anyway.

Answer 2

All hollows eve.. A pagan holiday (satan, witchcraft, etc.)..But really now just another way to get people to buy things.

Answer 3

are u 5? its a holiday.