"Games" of desymbolization.....👀 Is Halloween.... also masonic?

The Celts, a romantic people, with skilled craftsmen and wise old Druids, with poets who played the harp and warriors who, despite their fierce appearance, fought for truth and love, created a myth that moved, like the ancient mysteries, between Light and Darkness, that of Halloween.

When the harvest season ended, they celebrated Samhain, a festival that was held more to appease the season of darkness, contemplation and remembrance, of the coming winter,

In the deep darkness of the longest night, the Celts believed that the veil between the world of the living and the dead became thinner and souls could thus return to earth. However, they knew very well, from the myths and stories of their poets around fire, that along with good, evil could also pass. To protect themselves, therefore, they lit large fires and wore disguises, in order to ward off evil spirits.

With the migration of the Celts, the custom traveled to America and evolved into the celebration we know today — with pumpkins, costumes, and scary symbols. Although it has now acquired a festive and entertaining character, its roots remain deeply connected to the reminder of mortality and contact with the supernatural. Elements that we encounter since the beginning of time, when in ancient mysteries and traditions, death and rebirth were symbolically represented through rituals that emphasized the cycle of life and the soul.

Here, as symbols and elements of the celebration, we encounter the pumpkin and the bat. The bat has accompanied the ceremonies of the transition since ancient times, that is, where the sun sets and the night begins. Initially, of course, during the celebration of Samhain, the fires that people lit attracted insects, and the insects attracted bats; thus, they became silent witnesses to the union of two worlds.

Over the centuries, people feared them, associated them with witches and dark forces, but in essence they remained a symbol of transition — like the soul that moves between life and death, seeking its way to the light in the darkness.

Jack, a cunning and drunken farmer who, according to Irish tradition, managed to trick the Devil, who in anger condemned him to a never-ending road and forbade him from entering both Hell and Heaven, also seeks the end of his path. Jack made a small lantern and began his wanderings. This became a symbol for the residents, who carved it into pumpkins that the autumn harvest brought in abundance, to ward off evil spirits and protect their homes from wandering souls, like Jack's.

In Greece today, the growing popularity of Halloween is sparking interesting discussions about how such celebrations interact with our own traditions and spiritual values, and perhaps the symbols, the secularities, and the parties create in us a sense of the foreign, of the different. However, Halloween reminds us of something timeless, cross-cultural, and historically and philosophically common: that light and darkness are not opponents, but two sides of the same circle. And that true knowledge, like true vision, is born not in absolute light — but in the awareness of darkness.

Through these realizations, is Halloween perhaps... also masonic?!