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May Day Fertility way Beltane honours life A peak of Spring Earth energies are most effective Let it begin All busting with potent fertility The wheel of the year, potential becomes conception Nature is fair Fire festival glare Ireland celebrations Feast of Beltane Latter times, Mary's day, it was called in the rhymes, they say Bonfires marking, the coming of Summer Granting luck to people's livestock, without mock The first day in May Irish holiday Beltane rituals, counting young men and women, picking blossoms in the woods, lighting fires as the evening stood Matches for marriages all good, right there and then, or Summer Autumn would be when Medieval modern Europe holiday Return of Spring observance Probably originating anyway, in ancient agricultural roots Rituals and perseverance, The Greeks and Romans, held such festivals People and their cattle, would walk around bonfires, and between rattle Sometimes leaping over, embers and flames All households, fires doused and re-lit from the Beltane bonfire Accompanied by a feast, with some food and drink, offered at least May Day also called Worker's Day, or International Worker's Day Commemorating the historic, struggles and gains made, by workers, and the labour movement, reins without jerkers In the United States and Canada lakes, a similar observance known, as Labor Day partakes on the first, Monday of September not May Beltane also sometimes, goes by the Name May Day This holiday strongly, associated with Pagans, they say, for fertility come what May The origins are in ancient play, across the world this May Day © 2022 Carol Natasha Diviney
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May 1, 2022
May 1, 2022 at 5:45 AM UTC
Beltane
May Day Fertility way Beltane honours life A peak of Spring Earth energies are most effective Let it begin All busting with potent fertility The wheel of the year, potential becomes conception Nature is fair Fire festival glare Ireland celebrations Feast of Beltane Latter times, Mary's day, it was called in the rhymes, they say Bonfires marking, the coming of Summer Granting luck to people's livestock, without mock The first day in May Irish holiday Beltane rituals, counting young men and women, picking blossoms in the woods, lighting fires as the evening stood Matches for marriages all good, right there and then, or Summer Autumn would be when Medieval modern Europe holiday Return of Spring observance Probably originating anyway, in ancient agricultural roots Rituals and perseverance, The Greeks and Romans, held such festivals People and their cattle, would walk around bonfires, and between rattle Sometimes leaping over, embers and flames All households, fires doused and re-lit from the Beltane bonfire Accompanied by a feast, with some food and drink, offered at least May Day also called Worker's Day, or International Worker's Day Commemorating the historic, struggles and gains made, by workers, and the labour movement, reins without jerkers In the United States and Canada lakes, a similar observance known, as Labor Day partakes on the first, Monday of September not May Beltane also sometimes, goes by the Name May Day This holiday strongly, associated with Pagans, they say, for fertility come what May The origins are in ancient play, across the world this May Day © 2022 Carol Natasha Diviney
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May 1, 2022
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