10/8/2006 - The Sabbath

Here is a little story that I had once posted on my other blog and that I rather enjoy and I find it to be relvenet here. As it concerns the Sabbath, and the Sabbats can be very inportant days of ritual and celebration to many Witchs and Wiccans.

The day of the full moon, when the moon is neither inceasing nor decressing, the Babylonians called Sa-bat, meaning "heart-rest." It was belived that on this day, the woman in the moon, Ishtar, as the moon goddess was known in Babylon, was menstarting, for in Babylon as in virtually every ancient society, there had been for years a taboo against a woman working, preparing food, or traveling when she was passing her monthly blood. On Sa-bat from which comes our Sabbath men as well as women were comanded to rest, for when  the moon is menstrating the taboo was on everyone, orginally, (and naturally) obsereved once a month. The Sabbath was later to be incooperated by the Christans into thier creation myth, and made convenietly weekly, so nowadays hard-minded men with hard muscles and hard hats are releaved from thier jobs on Sundays, becasue of an archtyple physchological response to menstration.