http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Day
http://www.mythinglinks.org/Beltane.html
Perhaps a spin on a Maypole would be order?
Jeff
Happy Walpurgisnacht to all.
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AK - Jeff
The earliest known picture of a May-pole is taken from a drawing
of a window in Betley Hall, Staffordshire, England,
erected in the mid-1460s during the rule of Edward IVhttp://salmonriver.com/words/nancy/maia.html
Jeff
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carla
I will wish you a Happy May Day!
All I remember from kindergarten was bringing in flowers, doing some kind of maypole/ribbon thing and possibly May Day hats? Some people make a little May Day flower thing that hangs on a doorknob and the idea is to leave it anonymously. That's my worldly memories of it anyway.
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AK - Jeff
We used to have some playground equipment at our elementary school called a Maypole. It was like a carousel with seats on the end of chains - we loved it. I don't see those around any longer in this area, but they were great fun.
I remember the dubs telling me that I should refrain from swinging on them - as they had 'pagan' origins.
In researching May Day today - I see they are right. The difference is that now I don't give a rat's ass what the dubs think. LOL
Jeff
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Gopher
If your doorbell rings today, and then you go open the door and nobody's there --
(1) A JW left a propaganda tract in your door
(2) A child left a May basket for you
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Hope4Others
May Day marks the end of the uncomfortable winter half of the year in the Northern hemisphere
I will pick this part of your definition, Can I go with this definition? Isn't that what j-dubs do pick and choose what they think is applicable?
I got to start going down the list again on the action list, I've been just doing the topics and have missed lots of good stuff!
Cheers!
hope4others
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White Dove
Hello Green Man! Happy Beltane! We had our Beltane ritual today complete with May pole dancing and chanting in a moving circle. It was a circle of dancers with ribbons within a circle of non-dancers moving around it. It was red and white. We also had a basin of flowers in flower water that we sprinkled on our faces as we passed by it. We cheered and took pictures. It was beautiful!
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White Dove
I know that "nacht" means "night" in German, but what do the other parts of the word mean? And why is it "nacht" instead of "tag?"
