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	Welsh Customs for Calan Haf
		The first day of May in Wales is known as Calan Mai or Calan Haf, the first day of summer, in the same way that the first of November was known as Calan Gaeaf, the first day of winter.
		May fires were always started with the faggots of the previous year and midsummer from those of the last summer.
		The singers would visit families on May morning accompanied by a harpist or fiddler, to wish them the greetings of the season and give thanks to "the bountiful giver of all good gifts." If their singing was thought worthy, they would be rewarded with food, drink, and possibly money.
	www.applewarrior.com /celticwell/ejournal/beltane/wales.htm (1975 words)

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		On May eve a demon stole all the new-born children and animals in Pwyll.
		May Eve was also the occasion of a fearful scream that was heard each year throughout Wales, one of the three curses of the Coranians lifted by the skill of Lludd and Llevelys, battling dragons.
		The concept of the unbridled sexuality of the 'greenwood marriages' of young men and women who spent the entire night in the forest, staying out to greet the May sunrise, and bringing back boughs of flowers and garlands to decorate the village the next morning has been focussed on to the exclusion of everything else.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/holiday/mayday.txt (1087 words)

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	Facts and Figures: The Norse Way
		The Welsh Arthur was sometimes said to be the leader, as it is the case in the tale of Culhwch and Olwen in the Mabinogion, where they hunted the deadly wild boar, Twrch Trwyth.
		This is the date used by the Christians in the West, which may differ to the dates celebrated by the Orthodox Christians in the East.
		May Eve also marked the time when the spirit world roamed free on the earth's surface, while witchcraft and sorcery is the most potent at this time.
	www.timelessmyths.com /norse/way.html (2520 words)

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		In some Groves, the HP may merely turn to the left and exchange blessings with the person to that side, letting the caregl be handed around the circle by the members of the Grove.
		Samhain / Calan Gaeaf October 31 “Ye shall observe always the festival of Samhain, for it is the beginning of the period of Gelmredh, and also of the year.
		So one may see Blodeuwedd and Goronwy in a new guise, not as conspirators who murder their king, but as kindly farmers who harvest the crop which they had planted and so lovingly cared for.
	orgs.carleton.edu /Druids/ARDA2/doc/2part6-8.doc (20193 words)

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	Holy Days & Moots
		Samhain (Cym: Calan Gaeaf), the most important of the four feasts, was celebrated on November 1.
		Beltane, celebrated on May 1, marked the beginning of the light half of the year.
		This Calan Gaeaf we will be celebrating the festival at a secret location and then processing to Twmbarlwm.
	mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk /silurian/page5.html (263 words)

	The CR FAQ - An Introduction to Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism - Intermediate Questions
		Skilled amateurs may be able to do this sort of work, but because of the lack of peer review, their conclusions may not be valid.
		While we may strive toward the better ideals of tribalism, community and collectivism, we do not believe it is our place to claim a region of the country as our “territory” and attempt (or pretend) to rule over it in any way.
		Others may look at the common elements found in a number of other Indo-European cultures for signposts for what we may be missing, especially to the Norse, which has historically interacted rather extensively with Celtic cultures in both the Islands and on the Continent.
	www.paganachd.com /faq/intermediate.html (6985 words)

	English Medieval Calender - May Day
		The name "May" allegedly comes from a Norse word meaning "to shoot out new growth"; although it is more likely that this month is named in honor of the goddess Maia, originally a Greek mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades.
		May 1st was the midpoint of the Floriala a five-day Roman festival to Flora, Goddess of Flowers.
		In Welsh myth, the perennial battle between Gwythur and Gwyn for the love of Creudylad took place each Calan Mai; and it was on May Eve that Teirnyon lost his colts and found Pryderi.
	www.personal.utulsa.edu /~marc-carlson/holiday/belt2.html (933 words)

	Creiddylad: Cymric goddess and heroine of the Mabinogi (Engenderer of Waters)
		His time of year is Calan Gaeaf (All Hallow's Eve the ancient Celtic New Year) when he emerges with his wild hunt to rule the nights until Calan Mai.
		As a mother deity and a possible water goddess she might be similar to Dôn in embodying the creative spirit and being a 'mother of the tribe' type of divinity.
		In the original myth the deal between Arthur, Gwythyr and Gwyn may have been that Creiddylad lived with Gwyn during the winter and Gwythyr during the summer and both men would fight over her at both Calan Mai and Calan Gaeaf.
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_c/creiddylad.html (566 words)

	Calan Language Services / Gwasanaeth Iaith Calan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mae'r gair "CALAN" yn dynodi "y cyntaf" a nod y cwmni yw bod yn gyntaf mewn gwasanaethau iaith yn gyson.
		Gwnewch yn siwr mai CALAN yw'r cyntaf ar eich rhestr chithau ar gyfer eich holl anghenion ieithyddol.
		Mae CALAN wedi ei leoli yn y Bontfaen, yng nghanol Bro Morgannwg ond mae ar gael i chi lle bynnag y boch ac fe all gynnig gwasanaethau a chyngor arbenigol ar eich holl faterion iaith.
	www.calan-lan.com /about_c.php (87 words)

	Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Beltane, celebrated on 1st May, marked the beginning of the light half of the year.
		Later it came to be associated with May Day (Calan Mai).
		It was associated with the goddess Brigit, a Mother-goddess and protector of women in childbirth.
	hem.passagen.se /phzyco/ie/Festivals.htm (199 words)

	§håðów Ôƒ Thë wîtçh
		CALAN MAI, CALAN ME : The May 1st Greater Sabbat that celebrates the beginning of the Light Half of the Year.
		They may be evoked at all hours of the day, providing the evocation takes place in a wild and remote area.
		In modern practice, a covendom is the area defined by the dwelling places of the members of a Coven which may overlap another Covendom.
	groups.msn.com /3qdraveerc6riic1ngdn77pmg6/c.msnw (5820 words)

	Celtic World > Bealtaine
		Also known as May Eve (likewise May 1 is referred to as May Day), this festival marks the beginning of Summer and the growing season.
		Another, similar rite that took place at Beltane is called the "bringing the May." Frazier cites examples of youths would go out into the fields and collect flowers.
		Frazier also mentions that in Cornwall on May Eve people would tear branches from hawthorn and sycamore trees and decorate the outside of their homes.
	www.applewarrior.com /celticworld/celticyear/bealtaine.html (688 words)

	Beltane
		The flowers are in full bloom; apple orchards are white with blossoms; and the crops are in and beginning to grow.
		Beltane is the time of the May Pole, the ultimate phallic symbol, celebrating the fertility of both the earth and of mankind.
		In the first case, it is the coming of the gods to the land; in two cases, it is the finding of the hero after he has been lost; in another, it is the battle of the flower maiden.
	www.maryjones.us /jce/beltane.html (363 words)

	Arawn: a Cymric god (He of the Sown Field)
		Arawn is truly an ancient deity, and as he fought against the Plant Dô in the Câd Goddeu, the battle of the trees, he may be counted amongst the giants of Plant Llŷr.
		Arawn is mentioned in the epic poems Câd Goddeu and Preiddeu Annwfn (The spoils of Annwfn) where Arthur attempts to steal a magical cauldron from the nether-realm.
		In a similar manner to Gwyn Arawn seen as the leader of the Wild Hunt which emerges into the realm of men at Calan Gaeaf and Calan Mai (All Hallows' Eve and May Eve).
	www.celtnet.org.uk /gods_a/arawn.html (295 words)

	The Wheel Of The Year
		The precise date of the solstices and equinoxes may be found in good diaries and calendars.
		The Goddess is in her crone aspect and is accompanied by the mature and strong Cernunnos.
		Day and night are equal at Yule, and it is a time to celebrate the returning of the sun, for it is at this point that the daylight hours start to increase.
	www.celticwolf.co.uk /sabbats.html (1090 words)

	Beltane
		The Irish Gaelic word, also spelled Belteinne or Bealteine, or in Scots Gaelic Bealtuinn, means 'bright or good fire', or 'fire of Bel', the old sun god whom Classical writers considered the same as their Apollo.
		Calan Mai is the festival that marks the beginning of summer.
		Wrapped in a great deal of delicious and easily found folklore, it is a festival as popular as Calan Gaeaf, marking the other side of the year and exploring the other deep human drive that is fraught with taboos: sex.
	www.druidnetwork.org /rites/seasonal/intros/beltane.html (149 words)

	Our Festivals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We prepare lights so that the Goddess may find her way back to us from the darkness of winter.
		Calan Mai - Beltane - The Festival of Fertility
		We celebrate, honor and commemorate various stages of life among our kin, with rituals for marriage (handfasting), fertility and birth, blessing of a child (saining), and death.
	www.gwyddonaid.org /Festivals.htm (401 words)

	Calendar of Holydays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		July 31 - Calan Awst / Oidhche Lugnasa (Celtic) August Eve / Lammas Eve, Eve of Lughnasadh: "The First Harvest." The Harvest Of The Grain.
		Be prepared to chant and drum the eve away as we sip ice-cold lemonade, amidst the fires glow.
		April 31 - May 1 - Calan Mai Eve/ Beltane Eve / Walpurgis Night / May Day Eve - Celebration begins on the eve (the 31st of April), and continues untill the sunset of May 1st.
	pages.zdnet.com /welshwytch/id1.html (1264 words)

	Celtic World & Cultures
		Of course, it is not necessary that she is a goddess; she may be the queen or the representative of the goddess, like a priestess.
		The king's consort, whoever she may be, she is often described as the "Sovereignty Goddess".
		The future fertility and prosperity of the kingdom depends upon the mating the king mating with the sovereignty of the land.
	www.timelessmyths.com /celtic/celtworld.html (5198 words)

	Calan Mai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The May pole is erected for all to have a chance.
		Calan Mai was always thought opportune for courtship and for
		Calan Mai still remains part of our hearts to this day.
	www.angelfire.com /poetry/thecelticbards/beltane.htm (557 words)

	Amazon.com: "Calan Mai": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		JHENAH TELYNDRU Moon and the fires of Calan Mai (Beltane) upon the long-hidden pieces of the self.
		The oak tree (Welsh derwen, dr) flowers between April and June, frequently in May (the month associated with Beltaine, Calan Mai in Welsh).
		In medieval Wales, May Day was known as Cyntefin, "The First of Summer;" in modern Welsh it is Calan Mai, "The First Day of May." It stands at the opposite point of the year from Calan Gaeaf, "The First Day...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Calan-Mai (547 words)

	What is Beltaine?
		Today, we celebrate Beltaine on the first of May, although in the past the dates differed.
		Some sources state the date was May 14 and 15, before the change in the calendars; some place Beltaine as when the Hawthorn blooms; yet others claim the Beltaine begins the sixth day of the new moon.
		This last source comes to us from the Roman historian Pliny, who states the druids reckoned the months on the sixth day of the new moon.
	www.aheartsease.com /beltane/whatis.html (946 words)

	Sisterhood of Avalon - Community
		The Sisterhood of Avalon embraces a vibrant and diverse group of women within our international community, and accepts new members twice yearly at the Holy Days of Calan Mai (Lunar Beltane) and Calan Gaeaf (Lunar Samhain).
		Additionally, the SOA sponsors the Sisterhood Exchange Program, a bartering and matronage program that harkens back to more women-centered methods of economic support and exchange.
		Current SOA Sisters may peruse our newsletter, The Barge, and will find updated information for SOA Hearths, study groups, officers and chairs, as well as information about community projects and activities.
	www.sisterhoodofavalon.org /community/index.html (207 words)

	Caer Australis - Welcome to the Castle of the South
		An introduction to the Legend of Arthur providing an insight into Dark Age Britain, Arthurian literature, historical searches and fantasy tales.
		Summer is met at the eve of November - Samhradh extends across the the Southern Lands until the eve of May.
		A resource list of annotated weblinks covering many aspects of interest, and links to Australian Celtic societies, folk festivals, musicians and more.
	caeraustralis.com.au (538 words)

	Llyfr Lloffion: Fy mhenwythnos calan Mai
		Mae'n benwythnos gwyl y banc Mai, amser gwych i ymlacio ryw fymryn!
		Nos Wener, es i a chriw o'r coleg draw i'r Twcan newydd ar Ffordd Casnewydd (clwb Journeys gynt) i weld fy nghefnder, Rhys "Jakokoyak" Edwards yn perfformio.
		Ta waeth, roedd y Genod Droog yn plesio'n fawr, yn enwedig o gofio mai hwn 'di'r tro cyntaf imi weld nhw'n canu'n fyw.
	llyfrlloffion.blogspot.com /2006/04/fy-mhenwythnos-calan-mai.html (321 words)

	CLAB: The Quarterly Celtic Feasts
		At the end of the festival, cattle that have been selected as food beasts are sacrificed and their life-energy goes to replenish the dormant soil.
		The Brythonic names of the feast (Welsh: Calan Gaeaf, Cornish: Calan Gwaf, Breton: Kala-Goañv) mean “First Day of Winter.”
		The Brythonic names of the feast (Welsh: Calan Mai, Cornish: Kala’ Me, Breton: Kala-Mae) mean “First Day of May.”
	www.celticleague.org /festivals.html (623 words)

	Emerald Rose Song Lyrics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the old Celtic calendar, summer begins on May 1, known as Beltaine in
		Irish and Gaelic and as Calan Mai (in various spellings) in Welsh, Cornish, and
		for its May Day celebrations, which keep many old traditions alive.
	www.emeraldrose.com /lyrics/padstow.htm (190 words)

	C y m r u X - Young Plaid Cymru Ifanc (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Dros Wyl Banc Calan Mai, mae Aberystwyth yn ymagor i ddemocratiaeth go iawn.
		Am un penwythnos hir llawn a chynhyrchiol, mae'r dref yn dod yn ganolfan weithredu Cymru.
		23-Mai-2006 - Montenegro yn dewis Annibyniaeth - Ar ddydd Llun (22 Mai 2006) cadarnhawyd canlyniad refferendwm ar annibyniaeth i Montenegro.
	www.cymrux.org /newyddion/archif.asp (2051 words)

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