Tag: Haloa Festival

  • The ancient (and racy) origins of holiday feasting

    The ancient (and racy) origins of holiday feasting

    I begin to sing about Poseidon, the great god,mover of the earth and fruitless seagod of the deep who is also lord of Helicon  and wide Aegae.A two-fold office the gods allotted you,O Shaker of the Earth, to be a tamer of horsesand a saviour of ships!Hail, Poseidon, Holder of…