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	BELTANE - LoveToKnow Article on BELTANE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This festival, the most important ceremony of which in later centuries was the lighting of the bonfires known as beltane fires, is believed to represent the Druidical worship of the sun-god.
		In the north-east of Scotland beltane fires were still kindled in the latter half of the 18th century.
		Beltane, as the 1st of May, was in ancient Scotland one of the four quarter days, the others being Hallowmas, Candlemas, and Lammas.
	19.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BELTANE.htm (604 words)

	Beltane at opensource encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane or Beltaine (From either Irish Gaelic Bealtaine or Scottish Gaelic Bealtuinn; both from Old Irish Beletene, "bright fire") is an ancient Gaelic holiday celebrated around May 1."Bealtaine" is the name in modern Irish for the month of May. It is also the traditional first day of summer in Ireland.
		In neopaganism, the name Beltane or Beltaine is used for a sabbat, one of the eight solar holidays, which is celebrated on this day.
		Among the neopagan sabbats, Beltane is a cross-quarter day; it is celebrated in the northern hemisphere on May 1 and in the southern hemisphere on November 1.
	www.wiki.tatet.com /Beltane.html (409 words)

	Article: Beltane, by Heather Shaw
		Beltane is an old Celtic Fire Ritual which celebrates, at the most fundamental level, the end of winter and the beginning of the warmer, lighter half of the year.
		Beltane's traditional date, May 1st, was chosen as the midway point between the vernal equinox and summer solstice (two of the four minor Sabbats).
		Beltane is the night when the queen of the fairies will ride out on her white steed to entice humans away to Faeryland.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2001/20010423/beltane.shtml (2889 words)

	Beltane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane (Beltaine, Belltaine, Bealtaine, Beltain, Beltine, Bealteine, Bealtuinn, Boaldyn), meaning 'bright fire' or 'lucky fire' is held on May 1st (May 15th in Scotland) and celebrates the start of summer, the crop and pasturing season.
		When young we might use this time as an opportunity to connect to our sensuality in a positive creative way, and when older the mating that we seek might well be one of the feminine and masculine sides of our nature.
		For an excellent discussion of Beltane see The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain by Ronald Hutton.
	druidry.org /obod/festivals/beltane.html (180 words)

	Byzant Scriptorium - The Pagan Festival of Beltane
		Beltane is the cross-quarter festival that marks the start of the summer quarter of the year and the end of the spring quarter.
		Beltane is a joyful festival of growth and fecundity that heralds the arrival of summer.
		Beltane is the counterpart of Samhain (and is sometimes referred to as Cetsamhain, the 'first Samhain'), and these two important festivals divide the year into summer and winter halves, just as the two equinoctial celebrations, Ostara and Mabon, divide the year into light and dark halves.
	www.byzant.com /festivals/beltane.asp (472 words)

	Samhain Labs \| beltane
		Beltane requires a Samhain (version 1.6.0 or higher) client/server installation, with file signature databases stored on the central server, and logging to a SQL database enabled.
		Beltane 2 is targeted at users with large samhain client/server installations, and offers features for significantly improved scalability and usability in such environments.
		Beltane 1 ("the software") is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence ("GPL").
	la-samhna.de /beltane (541 words)

	Beltane
		In Celtic tradition, the two greatest festivals of the solar year are Samhain and Beltane, celebrations of death and rebirth, respectively.
		The bonfire, or need-fire, is one of the oldest Beltane traditions.
		Beltane is the time of year when the Goddess and God consummate their passions.
	www.earthwitchery.com /beltane.html (896 words)

	BBC - Religion & Ethics - Beltane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane is a Celtic word which means 'fires of Bel' (Bel was a Celtic deity).
		Beltane rituals would often include courting, for example, young men and women collecting blossoms in the woods and lighting fires in the evening.
		Although Beltane is the most overtly sexual festival, Pagans rarely use sex in their rituals although rituals often imply sex and fertility.
	www.bbc.co.uk /religion/religions/paganism/festivals/beltane.shtml (404 words)

	Beltane: Beltane - May 1 or May Day
		Beltane is celebrated on May 1st and is one of the original Celtic festivals.
		Beltane is one of the four Celtic Fire festivals, and is probably the second most important festival next to Samhain.
		Beltane is celebrated on May 1st and is one of the original Celtic festivals; Samhain is the other one.
	www.experiencefestival.com /a/Beltane/id/35271 (1479 words)

	Beltane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane is another of the ancient fire festivles in Europe.
		The Beltane fires and the Maypole celebrate fertility and the earth's ripe abundance.
		Beltane is the time of the sacred marriage; the Goddess and God were known as the Queen and King of the May. All these rites were performed to insure the fertility of nature, just as the fires were believed to purify and protect against pestilence, plague, and epidemics.
	www.mindspring.com /~stardancer/beltane.htm (168 words)

	Celtic religions, Beltane, Mad Cow, and factory dairy farms -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane (alternate spellings include Beltaine, Beltene, and Bealtaine), an ancient Celtic fire-festival, falls within the astrological sign of Taurus the Bull, thereby associating the celebration with the robust life-force of eros in humans and their herds.
		Beltane and Samhain were the year’s two great fire festivals -- they divided the year in half and marked the time when the veils between the worlds were at their most vulnerable, when spirits moved freely through the portals and enchantment abounded.
		That is why the Celts at Beltane drove their treasured herds and flocks along a narrow pathway between two banks of burning wood piles, through the holy, incense-like smoke, asking for blessings upon the animals and themselves.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/145/story_14525_1.html (703 words)

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		Many of the houses are decorated out of Beltane spirit and pride, as one of their family members is a principle or member of the court.
		The Beltane festival in effect has two centenaries, 1997 and 1999, The first for the celebration of the Riding of the Marches and the second for the Crowning of the Queen.
		To the Peebles locals the Beltane Festival means a time to recall happy memories, dress up in costumes that you could only get away with at this time of year and a time to forget their worries.
	www.peeblesbeltanefestival.co.uk (1178 words)

	Beltane, the Celtic Fire Festival
		Beltane is a festival that marks the return of summer with the lighting of fires; where people could burn their winter bedding and floor coverings, ready to be replaced afresh.
		Supposedly, animal sacrifices would be made each Beltane to ensure the fertility of their crops, however, every five years the Highland Celts would sacrifice humans, the numbers being made up of convicted criminals and prisoners of war.
		Fires were lit on hilltops at Beltane as late as the 1700s, and Beltane is still a major ceremonial date in the Wiccan and Pagan year, although these don't include sacrifices.
	www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk /festivals/beltane.html (437 words)

	Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh
		Beltane is one of the original pre-Christian festivals and it has been celebrated almost continuously up until the start of this century.
		There are lots of elements based on Beltane traditions, like the Bonfire, the breaking of bread, the washing of faces in the dew, and the May Queen, but other elements are of our own creation and understanding.
		Beltane does have great significance to us, but at a deep primal level and not because we have read about it in a book of spells.
	www.edinburghguide.com /feats/beltane2k.htm (823 words)

	Beltane
		Beltane was sacred to the solar deity Bel or Belenos, as the Celts venerated light and sun.
		The old Celtic name for May Day is Beltane (in its most popular Anglicized form), which is derived from the Irish Gaelic 'Bealtaine' or the Scottish Gaelic 'Bealtuinn', meaning 'Bel-fire', the fire of the Celtic god of light (Bel, Beli or Belinus).
		In the words of Witchcraft writers Janet and Stewart Farrar, the Beltane celebration was principly a time of '...unashamed human sexuality and fertility.' Such associations include the obvious phallic symbolism of the Maypole and riding the hobby horse.
	members.aol.com /laehar/beltane.html (1365 words)

	Beltane Fire Festival in Edinburgh
		Beltane is bigger than any individual, so we prefer to be called by our character names in publicity.
		A first time Beltane spectator may be overwhelmed by the scale of the crowd and the event.
		Without previous knowledge of the choreography and geography of the procession, many see very little of the organised performance, but there are always small groups in the audience doing their own thing, which provides a unique experience, as I found on my first year.
	www.edinburghguide.com /feats/beltane.htm (988 words)

	The Pagan Web: Workshops, Books and Online Community
		Beltane is the time of year when we celebrate new life, fertility and the earth's ripe abundance in all its forms.
		Beltane is one of the three "spirit-nights" of the year when the faeries can be seen.
		Symbolically, many Pagans choose to represent Beltane with fresh flowers all around the ritual area as well as their homes and the cauldron is often totally filled with gorgeous Springtime flowers.
	www.thepaganweb.com /beltane.html (1196 words)

	Wheel of the Year - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wiccans in the southern hemisphere usually celebrate the Sabbats on the opposite dates of the year (6 months apart from the northern dates), in order to follow the cycle of seasons where they live; i.e.
		They recognize that the fire festivals are near the midpoints between the solstices and equinoxes, and use the midpoint dates instead of the traditional dates.
		Another variant of the Wheel sets the four Sun Sabbats (Yule, Ostara, Litha and Mabon) to the solstice/equinox dates, while the other four (called Moon Sabbats) are set depending on the phase of the moon, with Imbolc, Beltane and Lammas at full moon and Samhain at the new moon dates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year (1235 words)

	Beltane: May Day celebration of the greening of nature, a transition from springtime to summer
		Beltane especially celebrated love, attraction, courtship and mating--that yearly groundswell of desire we know as "spring fever." Long before our current high school prom king and queen, villages elected a young, attractive couple to represent the King and Queen of the May, also known as John Thomas and Lady Jane.
		Beltane is the time of milk and honey, the primary Pagan time of pleasure, of blossoming and blooming, of desire and satisfaction, so the cow and the bee are both significant symbols of the Goddess at this important celebration.
		Beltane is a significant festival in the folk calendar and is celebrated with honey, oats (sow your wild ones) and dairy foods.
	users.internorth.com /~wiccan/seasons/beltane.htm (5512 words)

	Beltane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane means "the fires of Bel." This Sun God Bel supplanted Bride in the British (hear her name again?) Isles.
		At Beltane, all fires were extinguished, and Bel's fire was created from the sacred rays of the Sun, "the sacred fires of Bel." This Fire was then carried to all the hearths of the land.
		Beltane is that time for one last look back, one final deep fertilizing breath before the time of massive growth in summer.
	www.geomancy.org /quarter&cross/beltane.html (2237 words)

	Beltane Fire Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edinburgh's Beltane festival originates in the Scottish and Irish Gaelic pre-Christian festival of the same name.
		The main traditional element which was common to all Beltane festivals was the fire which gave it its name.
		The inhabitants of the village would then take pieces of the fire to their homes and relight their hearths, and dance clockwise around the bonfires to ensure good portents for them and their families.
	www.beltane.org /celticyear/beltane.html (198 words)

	BELTANE....IN SOUTHERN DARKNESS
		Amoniath and Thyiendalen have never really got on like a castle on fire so to speak, and Beltane with Amoniath, although musically very proficient, just did not have the same magik and the subtle mysterious power it did with Dyrkyn...it was simply a matter of time before the original Beltane reunited.
		Beltane is rehearsing for a forthcoming release, which will be released on CD, VHS, and possibly Vinyl.
		Beltane is looking for more exposure on the underground, if you are involved with a label or a zine get in touch!
	www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Club/4780/beltane.html (701 words)

	Beltane
		When I looked at Beltane the first thing that I noticed was that it seemed to be out of sync with the rest of nature.
		Taliesin was born just before Beltane and found in a coracle trapped in a salmon weir on may eve, Riannon’s child in the Mabinogian was stolen just to be returned to the apparent world on may eve.
		One of the positive things at Beltane is to be able to be feel the freedom of being naked just like our Celtic bronze age ancestors before us, reconnecting not only to the tribe but to the land it self.
	www.druidry.org /obod/festivals/beltane_eaton.html (402 words)

	Beltane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Beltane has the same way of mixing electronics (used as a kind of accompaniment) with classic guitars and a rather smiling female voice.
		And, finally, like several other goth bands of the moment, Beltane is a light-hearted band, definitely out of any gloomy mood.
		Beltane would have bugger all competition and all the cards in their hand.
	www.electronmusic.de /beltane/mreviewdion.htm (834 words)

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