Harvest celebration will be a great day

Harvest festivals have been held for as long as people have been sowing and gathering food.

If the harvest of nuts and grains was good, along with meat, fish, fats and fruits that might be preserved, you might make it through to spring.

But if it was a bad summer, then it was a certainty that people would die before growth returned to the earth again. Such crop failures were regarded as a wake-up call for people who felt that they had somehow failed to appease the relevant gods.