ABSTRACT
This chapter emphasizes the continuity between Roman Catholic Christianity and Wicca. Winter Solstice is the period when things start growing after the summer drought. He constantly made comparisons between Malta's experience of the season surrounding each Sabbat and that of countries whose experiences of the Wheel of the Year are taken as normative in most Pagan literature. Adam's integration of the global culture of Neo-Paganism with his local context and his negotiating between the worlds of Catholicism and Wicca demonstrate a continuously mobile, expansive, idiosyncratic and performative approach to constructing his religious identity. Lammas has ancient links with the early Celtic festival of Lughnasadh, a celebration of the beginning of the grain harvest, named for the god Lugh. Samhain is the word for November in Gaelic and in Celtic societies this festival celebrated the end of summer and the harvest season, and therefore the end of the annual food production cycle.
