A solemn cutting of the first of the corn of which an offering would be made to the deity by bringing it up to a high place and burying it; a meal of the new food and of bilberries of which everyone must partake; a sacrifice of a sacred bull, a feast of its flesh, with some ceremony involving its hide, and its replacement by a young bull; a ritual dance-play perhaps telling of a struggle for a goddess and a ritual fight; an installation of a [carved stone] head on top of the hill and a triumphing over it by an actor impersonating Lugh; another play representing the confinement by Lugh of the monster blight or famine; a three-day celebration presided over by the brilliant young god [Lugh] or his human representative. Finally, a ceremony indicating that the interregnum was over, and the chief god in his right place again.[24]
πόπανον
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Contents
1 Ancient Greek
1.1 Etymology
1.2 Pronunciation
1.3 Noun
1.3.1 Inflection
1.3.2 Derived terms
1.4 Further reading
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From πέσσω (péssō, “to ripen; to cook”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /pó.pa.non/ → /ˈpo.pa.non/ → /ˈpo.pa.non/
Noun
πόπᾰνον • (pópanon) n (genitive ποπᾰνου); second declension
round cake used at sacrifices