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#beltane

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Laura C
Ooh I opened Pixelfed and got a nice surprise with the new look! On the theme of new beginnings, these are a couple of photos I took at the Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh. It was pitch black, pouring rain and very crowded so getting good photos wasn’t the easiest. But this is the Green Man and the May Queen, with her attendant. You can see Ogham (an ancient form of script used in Ireland and other parts of the British isles) running down their tabard.

#beltane #edinburgh #may #mayqueen #greenman #celtic #spring
#spring
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻

#FolkloreSunday: `On #Beltane #Lugh appeared dressed in a purple fringed cloak, a gold embroidered petticoat and shoes of white bronze to the great king of #Ireland, #Cormac. The son of Conn received from the great, shining, gray-haired warrior from the #Celtic #Otherworld a silver apple branch with three golden apples from #Emain's tree, whose branches are of the most beautiful silver and its blossoms are glass eyelashes. „It was the highest pleasure and boon at the same time to hear the music emanating from the branch, as it put to sleep the severely injured, the sick, and those in childbed when the branch was shaken a little“.`
Source: Guyonvarc'h/Le Roux `Die #Druiden`

Lugh by Jim Fitzpatrick, is licenced under CC BY
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻

#MythologyMonday: `The #Celts did not mark the two equinoxes, when daylight and darkness are of equal length, nor the solstices in winter and summer, as most other peoples of the world do. Rather, they marked the points in between, in their great festivals of #Samhain (winter), #Imbolc (spring), #Beltane (summer), and Lughnasa (autumn).That the Celts marked the season’s midpoint rather than the point of change may relate to the insistence upon the sacredness of the center, which is both a geographical and a spiritual concept.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore`

Ccferrie, Comparative seasons wheel; CC BY-SA 4.0
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1. Neu-Kelte 🌻💙💛🌻

#MythologyMonday: `Under the kingship of LLudd a fearful scream was heard in every home in Britain every #Beltane that scared the people out of their senses. The scream came from two dragons, which fought each other on May-eve. They were slain after being intoxicated with mead that was placed in a pit dug in the very centre of Britain, which was found on measurement to be at Oxford.`
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“

Dragons generated with replicate.com by 1. Neu-Kelte.png
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cohan

@pagan @paganism
We've just passed #MayDay #Beltane #Ūsiņi in the Latvian tradition- all based on the Cross-quarter day between Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice.
In the Latvian division of the year, this marks the beginning of the #TimeOfFlowers
#bees #flowers #greening of the land ++ are associated with this time. I have a blog post with pics + vids of bees, flowers etc and link to another post about the roots of the Latvian celebration.
cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/202
cohanmagazine.blogspot.com/202

A whitish Crocus flower generousy veined with purple, and bright orange sexy parts. A tiny dark wild bee has just climbed out of the centre, and is at the top of a petal, some pollen grains clinging. The title text: "Time of Flowers May Day; Ūsiņš and Ziedu Māte: a God and Goddess to bring Green, Flowers & Bees" is over the image in alternating lines of orange and mid-violet-red in varying font sizes.
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