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	Beltaine
		Beltaine is a very interesting and dynamic time in Colorado.
		Beltaine is that day that the Otherworld gives us a glimpse into the energies that will play out in the summer to come.
		Beltaine is a time of yearning, new ventures, physical exercise, and energetic moods.
	www.celtictale.com /feis/beltaine.htm (512 words)

	Clannada na Gadelica - Gaelic Traditionalist Resource Site
		Beltaine's origin is the landing of the Tuatha De Danaan upon the shores of Ireland.
		Beltaine was the time when the cattle were put out to their summer grazing pastures in the mountains.
		Beltaine, being the calends of summer, is a time between, therefore the veil between words thins, allowing this world and Tir na Nog (OtherWorld) to intermingle.This has always been considered the other time in the year when the veil between the worlds was thin.
	www.clannada.org /bof_beltaine.php (1512 words)

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		Beltaine marks the beginning of Summer and is dedicated to the "Shining One:" or Bel.
		Beltaine is time of finding the forces and realization the desires.
		Beltaine (aka May Day) is when the Land, represented by the Goddess, is ripe and fertile.
	www.lycos.com /info/beltaine.html (400 words)

	The Last Enemy : Beltaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He seems to think of Beltaine as an innocent amongst the Family wolves (in fact, he occasionally seems unaware of the fact that she is no longer a child), and can be overly protective of his mistress, as well as an incurable matchmaker and gossip.
		Beltaine has grown up with her family's mistrust of her mysterious link to Tir-Na Nog'th and is torn between wanting to be 'like everyone else' and trusting her own instincts and feelings.
		Beltaine is also known for casting very accurate Tarot readings; whether this results from natural ability or is another aspect of her link with Tir-Na Nog'th is currently unclear.
	www.wolfram.demon.co.uk /rp_am_tle_beltaine.html (3190 words)

	Beltane Rituals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Beltaine is one of two Celtic fire festivals, a cross-quarter sabbat, and is sometimes referred to as Cetsamhain, meaning "opposite Samhain," because it falls opposite to Samhain in the Wheel of the Year.
		Likewise, where Samhain is a festival recognizing and honoring the necessity of Death, Beltaine is a celebration of life and fertility returning to the world.
		They celebrated Beltaine with dancing, feasting, and "greenwood marriages." Men and women would disappear into the woods throughout the night for their own personal celebrations; these being understood to be unions through which the Horned God impregnated the Goddess and brought fertility to the earth, through the physical forms of man and woman.
	www.tryskelion.com /belintro.htm (403 words)

	Beltaine
		Beltaine is one of the Sabbats traditionally associated as one of the Greater Sabbats.
		Beltaine marks the start of summer, and is a time for feasting, merry-making, celebration, and joy.
		Beltaine is a time of self-discovery, love, union and developing your potential for personal growth.
	www.angelfire.com /wa3/angelline/beltaine.htm (926 words)

	San Francisco Shamans: Beltaine
		In spring time we are a fetus in a physical form we are spirit and body protected within our mother's womb; at Beltaine it is the time of coming out being born into the material world, becoming fully spirit and body existing between the polarities of the material world.
		Beltaine is beginning of the light half of the year, time of the manifest, it is the ending of the dark half the year, which is the time of the un-manifest.
		Samhuin is the beginning of the un-manifest (inner) part of the year and Beltaine is the beginning of the manifest (outer) part of the year.
	www.shamans-sf.org /calendar/beltaine.html (468 words)

	The Celtic Year: Beltaine
		When the Druids and their successors raised the Beltaine fires on hilltops throughout the British Isles on May Eve, they were performing a real act of magic, for the fires were lit in order to bring the sun’s light down to earth.
		Beltaine was a time of fertility and unbridled merrymaking, when young and old would spend the night making love in the Greenwood.
		Beltaine is one of the three "spirit-nights" of the year when the faeries can be seen.
	www.chalicecentre.net /beltaine.htm (605 words)

	The Pagan Heart Magazine - Pagan Festivals Page
		Beltaine starts on April 30th and lasts until May 1st, which is also known as "May Day" (there is also the cross-quarter day method of determining the date, based upon the day that falls half way between the Vernal Equinox and Summer Solstice - 5th to 6th of May).
		As mentioned, Beltaine was celebrated over two days, April 30th through May 1st, starting at sundown as the ancient Celts considered a day to be from sunset to sunset.
		On Beltaine Eve, the hearth fires were ceremoniously extinguished at sunset, and the ashes were thrown into the fields to ensure good crops for the coming year.
	www.geocities.com /the_pagan_heart/Articles/Festivals/May05A.html (1515 words)

	Beltaine - Kindle the Fire
		Although a time of sharing love and celebrating, Beltaine was also considered a time for those unhappy with their current partners, to do something about it.
		To combat their enchantments (fairies were prone to stealing milk from cows, or even turning it sour) rowan crosses were hung in byres, and domestic animals were sprinkled with water from holy wells.
		Burn during rituals on Beltaine (April 30th) or on May Day for fortune and favours and to attune with the changing of the seasons.
	www.angelfire.com /falcon/kindlethefire/beltaine.htm (1951 words)

	KIDPROJ MCC: Beltaine // May Day - U.S., Europe, etc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Beltaine or May Day as it is more commonly called by people today, is a celebration of Spring.
		Both Beltaine and the Spring Equinox are sabbaths still celebrated by Pagan religions such as Wicca.
		Beltaine is a beautiful way to celebrate the joy of Spring.
	www.kidlink.org /KIDPROJ/MCC/mcc0004.html (366 words)

	Beltaine
		Beltaine, falling on May first and hence also known as May Day, is the exact opposite of Samhain on the wheel of the year.
		Many Beltaine customs derive from the Roman feast of Floriala, a celebration of flowers known for its sexual overtones which began on April the twenty eighth and lasted until May first, but the word Beltaine comes from a Gaelic term meaning "Bel-fire," of the Fire of Bel, the Celtic god of light.
		Beltaine is seen to mark the Great Marriage between the god and the goddess.
	ladyhedgehog.hedgie.com /holidays/beltaine.html (889 words)

	The Parthenon Online
		In an e-mail interview, Turrill said Beltaine is a ritual that has been celebrated for centuries historically recorded to predate Christianity by thousands of years.
		Beltaine is seen as a festival of fire, where celebration is intended to "wake up spring" and make sure it is on its way.
		Beltaine is also regarded as a fertility ritual.
	www.marshall.edu /parthenon/ARCHIVES/20010420/life/may.htm (677 words)

	Historic Beltaine
		Beltaine is one of the Celtic Fire Festivals.
		The fire festivals, Imbolc, Beltaine, Lammas and Samhain, also called the "Cross Quarter Days" are roughly mid-way between the solar holidays of the Solstices and Equinoxes and mark the highlights of the Celtic year.
		Beltaine is directly opposite Samhain on the wheel of the year.
	www.fortunecity.com /millennium/sherwood/504/belhist.html (644 words)

	Acorns -- Beltaine, 2001
		In the evening great bonfires called Beltaine Fires were lit as a symbol that darkness was gone and the warmth and light of summer was here.
		Since Beltaine falls on a weekday this year, some families, like mine, have only the joy of either an early morning breakfast or an evening dinner together, as at least one parent usually has to venture off to work.
		"Beltaine" is a celebration of the cycle of life, just as its polar opposite on the Wiccan wheel of the year is the celebration of the cycle of death, "Samhain" (one of everyone's favorite holidays).
	members.tripod.com /acorns3/acorns32.html (2383 words)

	Triplism Fuels Turning of Celtic Wheel to Beltaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The sun was just rising and the magical dew of the first morn of May glistened in the grass as I took my first breath of air.
		Beltaine itself is the Celtic festival of "re-union" and its birthplace is an Irish hill called Uisneach, a place of primordial unity.
		From my long ago Beltaine to that soon to come, I find that separateness and division is not the legacy of humankind, it is the illusion we must see through.
	merganser.math.gvsu.edu /myth/beltaine.html (1259 words)

	What is Beltaine?
		The "light" season of samos, Beltaine is a fire festival second only in importance to Samhain, and indeed they parallel many of the same aspects.
		Beltaine itself is a modern name, and seems to be derived from the Old Celtic Belo-tenia, fire of Belos.
		In contrast to the generosity noted for Samhain, Beltaine was a time of miserliness, where neither food, water or fire was "given" away to another, for to do so would be to give away your luck.
	www.aheartsease.com /beltane/whatis.html (946 words)

	Fire Burns at the Heart of Beltaine Festival
		Earth opens her furrows to the seed of man and we are again swept up in the blazing procreative surge that is Beltaine, the advent of the Celtic summer on May 1.
		Elemental fire roars at the heart of the Celtic festivals of Beltaine, Lughnasadh, Samhain and Imbolg.
		Beltaine is a time of darkness within the season of light.
	merganser.math.gvsu.edu /myth/fireburns.html (854 words)

	Irish Fire Festivals: Beltaine
		Beltaine, pronounced "bel-ten-ya" or "bel-chen-ya" depending on the Gaelic dialect marks the beginning of summer in the old Irish calendar.
		Bile ("Tree" -pronounced bee-lay) is the primal ancestral male deity in Ireland who comes closest and is not a solar deity ---in fact there are no primarily solar Gods evident in Irish myth at all, while some Goddesses do seem to have solar aspects.
		"Beltaine" most likely means "bright fire" or perhaps "new fire" ---fires would be extinguished and a need fire (a fire made from friction) would be lit to make the bonfires and taken to the homesteads.
	www.cyberpict.net /sgathan/essays/beltaine.htm (2606 words)

	Irish Fire Festivals: Beltaine
		Or he could have been confused by the similarity of "Beltaine" to "Belenus," Who the Gauls brought to Britain during Roman occupation.
		Bile ("Tree" -pronounced bee-lay) is the primal ancestral male deity in Ireland who comes closest and is not a solar deity ---in fact there are no primarily solar Gods evident in Irish myth at all, while some Goddesses do seem to have solar aspects.
		"Beltaine" most likely means "bright fire" or perhaps "new fire" ---fires would be extinguished and a need fire (a fire made from friction) would be lit to make the bonfires and taken to the homesteads.
	cyberpict.net /sgathan/essays/beltaine.htm (2606 words)

	CD Baby: BELTAINE: Winter Wind
		Beltaine is proud to announce the release of their third CD, a Christmas CD called Winter Wind.
		There are 16 instrumental tracks that take you on a journey through the history of Christmas through music, starting in the 13th century with March of the Three Kings to more contemporary tunes like Up on the Housetop and The Little Drummer Boy.
		Beltaine’s music is traditional folk music from America, England, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, and many other countries.
	cdbaby.com /cd/beltaine2 (574 words)

	Brighid's Fire - Beltaine Circle 2002
		Also, the Beltaine ritual coincided with our annual women's retreat, so keep in mind that it was written for a circle of women only.
		Beltaine is Alive and Well - Beltaine brings another turn in the Wheel of the Year as we move into the quarter of Summer.
		It is a time of living in fullness, of expressing ourselves with strength, vitality, passion, and joy, of mirroring the qualities we now see present in the life of the earth.
	www.brighidsfire.com /pathworking/Beltaine2002.html (1532 words)

	KRANZ Beltaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Beltaine - the cheerful bonfire - the 1st of May.
		Beltaine not such serious and solemn, as Samhain; it is famous by its revelry, songs and dancing.
		In Beltaine cattle let out from sheds that it, at last, has taste a fresh spring grass.
	www.kranz.com.ua /BeltaineE.htm (490 words)

	BELTAINE - We Rock! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		My covenmates raved (as with last year's) over the dedication of staff, the nifty doodads sold by vendors, the workshops, the concerts, the people, and (most importantly) the food.
		Beltaine 2004 was truly one of the most beautiful experiences we have ever had!
		I had the pleasure of playing for the first time with DreamSpirit at this wonderful Beltaine fest....The classes were fantastic and we had a chance to meet some extraordinary people!
	www.subrosamagick.com /beltaine/BELTAINErocks.html (967 words)

	Beltaine Ritual
		This is a ritual inspired by the ancient Irish custom of extinguishing all fires on the island on the eve of Beltaine, then relighting them from a bonfire built on the mound of Tara, and lit at dawn on Beltaine.
		In this manner, each dun and home in Erin was given a piece of the sacred fire of the sun, seen at this time of year in all its promise and glory, as it rises over a land that has sloughed off the last of winter, and is entering the height of a verdant spring.
		At the site (preferably outdoors in the morning, where the Beltaine sun can be seen), arrange the ritual space with all tools and equipment needed within a ring of nine candles.
	members.tripod.com /~suil_bhran/rituals/solobeltaine.html (888 words)

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		According to legend, the first Beltaine fires were lit by the druid Mide (meaning "middle") at Uisnech during the Nemeton invasions.
		The bonfire was so large that it burned for seven years, was seen by all of the provinces of Ireland, and served as the central fire from which all hearth fires were lit.
		It is said that the Tuatha Dé Danann arrived on the 1st of May (Beltaine) bringing with them treasures from their home cities.
	www.lycos.com /info/beltaine--fires.html (510 words)

	Irish Fire Festivals: Beltaine
		Beltaine, pronounced "bel-ten-ya" or "bel-chen-ya" depending on the Gaelic dialect marks the beginning of summer in the old Irish calendar.
		Instead the Irish had what may be a long practice of May Bushes, rather on a similar vein to the Norse Yule trees.
		Legend notes that the Fianna only fought between Beltaine and Samhain, living in the wilderness during this time to protect all of Ireland.
	www.jaguarmoon.org /public/Wheel/Beltaine/Fire.html (2565 words)

	Beltaine, May 4th, 2004
		we have the sabbat of Beltaine (b'yal tin / bell tane / b-eh ten eh) the "Fires of Bel" or Gaelic for "May", depending on which source you are looking at.
		Astronomically it is when the Sun reaches 15º of the fixed sign of Taurus, symbolized by the Bull...
		Another aspect of the holiday is to work "Water Magick" in the dawning light of Beltaine.
	www.denelder.com /2004/beltaine.html (423 words)

	Beltaine: facts and misinformation
		The witches in the Southern Hemisphere reverse the Sabbats due to the opposite seasons.
		The Beltaine season of April 30-May 1 is unique.
		A Pagan Sabbat: Beltaine, usually celebrated on or near the evening of April 30.
	www.tylwythteg.com /Beltaine.html (1922 words)

	CD Baby: BELTAINE: String Fling
		This is the second recording of Portland's Beltaine, a rising Celtic-flavored band featuring Brian Baker's guitar and mandolin and the twin hammered dulcimers of Kris Chase and John Keys (who between them also play mountain dulcimer, bass box, and flute).
		Beltaine also did their homework on the music.
		Of particular interest were the succinct historical notes to each tune in the album notes.
	www.cdbaby.com /Beltaine (500 words)

	Megan's Beltaine
		I mentioned it to your mother and she thought that it would be a very fitting way to help celebrate Beltaine.
		Gramma Lee and Granpa Scott were Christian and they wouldn't like hearing about the family celebrating Beltaine but they wouldn't mind having May Day baskets.
		Beltaine was on a Saturday this year and so they would be having Circle at their house that night.
	ladysilverwolf.freeservers.com /page4h.html (1323 words)

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