Solstices And Equinoxe Research Paper

“The solstices and the equinoxes are important to us. In fact Christians stole the mistletoe from us. When you kiss under the mistletoe, you share a kiss of life, but the Christians use it to steal a kiss from a woman,” she said, “And that is an act of war.” “You’re a Christian,” I said. “I’m a good Catholic, but I respect life in the old ways,” she replied. Then, she went onto explain the Druid community. In the days before our conversion, she told me our clan led our community. We made the laws. We taught, and we were the poets. That is why we became the spiritual guides of our community. The mistletoe is good for tea, but it must come from the plant growing in an oak tree. It must be collected on the sixth day of the new moon. If it is done …show more content…
A woman can’t be menstruating, and a man must not fight or kill another man or animal during the time of purification.” Men must not kill, I thought as I walked into the woods at the end of the block. As I looked through the trees, I remembered the one day we entered a village after an artillery attack cleared the area for us. A VC sniper shot three of our platoon before we killed him, but my memory of all the dead in the village lack the details that a dog tearing the guts out of a chicken made. When he heard us, he lifted his head to look at us. Beads of blood fell from a piece of meat. It contained a few feathers, and it drooped like a rag on the outside of his mouth. A soldier said, “We have to go sooner or later. We may as well go today.” Then, our artillery started bombing us. We ran from the town. We ran back the way we came. We hit the ground. As we laid there the soldier next me said, “Only difference in shelling is if the incoming is theirs or ours. Shit, that’s not difference. No