harvest thanksgiving
Autumn gratitude festival
Harvest thanksgiving is a religious service or celebration giving thanks for the year's crops, typically held in autumn when the harvest is gathered.
Common in British churches, it features hymns, prayers, and displays of produce: The church was decorated with sheaves of wheat for harvest thanksgiving.
Distinguished from the American holiday Thanksgiving, though sharing thematic roots.
- autumnPost-summer cooling period
- fall foliageSeasonal leaf coloration
- autumn equinoxEqual day and night
- cornucopiaAbundance symbol, horn-shaped
- horn of plentyMythical endless-food vessel
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