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The 15th of Alfheimr was Harvest Sacrifice Wake-Up-Day, known fronl Gaelic as the festival of the beginning of harvest. Before harvest could the and or it was - in the shape of a goat made from last straw into bits and pieces and buried the field's four corners and in the field itself. the time of the Bronze Age spirit of and had become a and a god, Sibijo and known from the Scandinavian and respectively. The grain deity was still Y'O''''',Y'oc'on"tnt'i animal form a goat. In addition to the sickle or scythe in a sword dance. a of the the most ancient of a cone, was cut into bits and and bread or The had to die and buried with the straw animal in the be buried in the ground for new grain to come. took the first straw harvested and made a new animal of it, and stored it a safe for next Harvest Sacrifice. nr\l"'tr'it:"),C'C'
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