Beltane 2005

The Feast of Love and the Nature Spirits!

This year we decided to celebrate Beltane with a Dance of the Nature Spirits! People, especially children, attended wearing animal masks and skins. For the Maypole dance, Senior Druid Gannd chose two young people to be the May King and May Queen, and children and lovers were given first priority for dancing the Maypole.

Mark was D1, Julian was D2, Kirk was Seer, Arlene was Bard, Dennis was the Warrior and Sanctifier was shared by Lily and Carmela.

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Mark and Julian purify the Nemeton.	Julian builds the Sacred Fire.	Kirk tells the story of Bel and Danu to Steven while the Celebrants huddle before the play.	Mark (as Bel) and Julian (as Danu) enact the joining of the Sky and Sea.
Kirk and Steven talk of the 4 Cities in the constellation of the Great Bear.	Mark opens the Gates.	The Dance of the Nature Spirits!	The men succeed in planting the Maypole in the hole defended by the women.
The beginning of the Maypole dance.	The ribbons are getting shorter and shorter!	The Maypole dancers are getting quite tied up!

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