MABON
A celebration of the autumn equinox, it is a modern addition to celebrations of harvest, sacrifice and survival.
The equinox is a time of year when day and night are of equal length. The balance between darkness and light.
One of the oldest festivals related to the autumn equinox are "The Eleusinian Mysteries" in Greece.
Aidan Kelly who found the name Mabon from a writing: Mabon ap Modron (mother's son) having a parallel with Korê (mother's daughter).
The essential theme is the mother goddess whose child has been stolen and imprisoned. The mission of the mythical hero Culhwch is to free him and seek out Mabon to help him hunt a wild boar.
This myth indicates the separation of the young god from his mother, the great goddess, and the resulting desolation of the earth, which is only restored when the son is reunited with his mother.
In the book of Taliesin (legendary bard) Mabon takes on the aspect of a psychopomp and is called upon for these qualities:
"Maponos is seen as a god who crosses the narrow line between the lower world and the upper world, the realm of light and darkness, having access to both worlds, he is useful to those who need the qualities of one or the other. Fertility, birth and death, in the case of Mabon, are but opposite sides of the same coin, all are necessary" (Hugues 74)
From Mabon by Diana Rajchel