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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2005-05-03 08:53 am
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Beltane

Someone has posted some fantastic pictures of the Beltane celebrations here.  Wow!
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2005-05-03 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
It's best when you can get close. Which was hard when there was about 10,000 people there...

[identity profile] heron61.livejournal.com 2005-05-03 08:09 am (UTC)(link)
What group or tradition put it on?
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2005-05-03 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
Neither. It's a re-enactment.

http://www.beltane.org/ are the people behind it.
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[identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com 2005-05-03 08:52 am (UTC)(link)
Be fair. It's generally understood that most presently practiced forms of paganism are also reconstructed/reenacted....
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[personal profile] andrewducker 2005-05-03 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I more meant that many of the people involved didn't actually believe anything.

Twasn't intended as a slight against those who do.
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[identity profile] akicif.livejournal.com 2005-05-03 08:50 am (UTC)(link)
The Beltane Fire Society is a fairly mixed bunch - some of us are pagan, some of us are performers, and others are just there for the party!

The procession and performances are vetted so as not to be blatantly inconsistent or inappropriate, though.

(I'm the left-most torchbearer of the group looming out of the smoke, btw)
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