Beltane

[andrewducker]

Someone has posted some fantastic pictures of the Beltane celebrations here.  Wow!

Comments

[andrewducker]

It's best when you can get close. Which was hard when there was about 10,000 people there...

[heron61.livejournal.com]

What group or tradition put it on?

[andrewducker]

Neither. It's a re-enactment.

http://www.beltane.org/ are the people behind it.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

Be fair. It's generally understood that most presently practiced forms of paganism are also reconstructed/reenacted....

[andrewducker]

I more meant that many of the people involved didn't actually believe anything.

Twasn't intended as a slight against those who do.

[akicif.livejournal.com]

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)