Mabon (MAY-bone or MAH-bawn) is named for the Welsh God and it is seen as the second of the three harvests, and particularly as a celebration of the vine harvests and of wine. It is also associated with apples as symbols of life renewed.

Celebrating new-made wine, harvesting apples and vine products, and visiting burial cairns to place an apple upon them, were all ways in which the Celts honored this Sabbat. (Avalon, one of the many Celtic names for the Land of the Dead, literally means the “land of apples”.) These acts symbolized both thankfulness for the life-giving harvest, and the wish of the living to be reunited with their dead.

Taken from “Celtic Myth and Magick” by Edain McCoy

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