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	Roodmas
		It took place at midnight on May 1, during a time in which it was common to celebrate some masses at 12 AM (0:00 hrs), presumably in an attempt to diminish the influence of Paganism.
		Persecutions were common the days after the celebration of Roodmas because people who did not go to the church were considered to be Pagans first, and Satanists later, and the Christian authorities were not well disposed to tolerate non-Christian population in their territory, as History proves.
		During the Middle Age and Renaissance it was said that witches and warlocks celebrated a reunion called Great Sabbath on this night to honour the Devil and offend Jesus, God and all sacraments.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ro/Roodmas.html (201 words)

	Byzant Scriptorium - The 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.
		The festival is sometimes referred to as Roodmas, a name coined by the medieval Christian Church in an attempt to associate Beltane with the Cross (the Rood) rather than the life-giving symbol of the Maypole.
		Beltane was also appropriated by the Church as the Feast Day of Saint Walpurga, who was said to protect crops and was often represented with corn.
	www.byzant.com /Mystical/Calendar/EightFestivals.aspx?festival=4 (417 words)

	Beltain.....history, rituals pg12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Roodmas, Rood Day, Feast of Saint Philip and Saint James, Feast of Saint Walpurga
		Beltane is the cross-quarter festival that marks the start of the summer quarter of the year and the end of the
		The festival is sometimes referred to as Roodmas, a name coined by the medieval Christian Church in an
	hometown.aol.com /jadzia7667/page12.html (534 words)

	BELTANE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Beltane is also known as Roodmas or May Day.
		Hence, in the Christian calendar, this was celebrated as 'Roodmas'.
		Mom and daughter could braid their hair, and weave in a few tender blossoms.
	www.expage.com /thesabbatbeltane (418 words)

	May Day
		May Day is a name for holidays celebrated on May 1.
		Labour Day is celebrated in many nations (particularly in the United Kingdom), Loyalty Day in the United States, or springtime celebrations such as Walpurgis Night in Northern Europe, Beltane by neopagans[?] and Roodmas.
		Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations (derived, in the main, from Beltane fertility ceremonies) include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen[?], and dancing around a Maypole.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/May_Day.html (85 words)

	Beltane- April 2006
		Beltane, also known as Roodmas or May Day is an ancient Gaelic holiday celebrated around May 1.
		Beltane means fire of Bel; Bel, known as ‘the Shining One’, was a god of light whose followers included the Gauls and ancient Celts.
		All fiction and stories published through Exploring The Cauldron may not be copied re-published without permission from the author.
	www.exploringthecauldron.com /april06/beltane.html (690 words)

	Pagan Origins of Modern Holiday Traditions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It was believed that dancing around the pole would send energy down the pole into the earth’s womb to awake her.
		The early church called this holiday "roodmas" to try to sway people from honoring the May Pole to honoring the holy rood (cross).
		Of course, the May Pole is the symbol of life, and the Holy Rood is the Roman instrument of death, but that didn’t occur to them.
	www.overopinionated.com /holidayorigins.htm (2002 words)

	The Fluid Imagination Blog
		Third, tonight is Walpurgis Night, when witches and warlocks around the world celebrate the beginning of Spring.
		For you Christians out there, midnight is also the time of the Roodmas, which was a special midnight mass held so that all the people who had gone out earlier in the day to celebrate as pagans (or Devil worshippers) could come (or be dragged) to Church and confess their sins (aka, be tortured).
		And last but definitely not least (because of a personal connection that we need not go into right here), May 1 is also the day of celebration for the Green Man, who, throughout many of the world’s cultures, is often related to natural vegetative deities.
	fluidimagination.com /blog/index.php?tag=roodmas (781 words)

	Feasts of the Cross-Quarters
		These holidays have long been recognized by Christianity as a way of preempting their celebration by more naturally-observant pagan predecessors.
		What once were (and for neo-pagans have again become) Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasad, and Samhain, became holidays recognized by the Roman Church as Candlemas, Roodmas, Lammas, and Hallowmas.
		Beginning in A.L. IV ii (1995 e.v.), the Smoking Dog Project of Scarlet Woman Oasis began a four-year series of experimental dramatic rituals in an effort to clothe the cross-quarters holidays in the vestments of the Law of Thelema.
	www.hermetic.com /dionysos/xquart.htm (1025 words)

	megalast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Call out to dread Azathoth when the Sun is in the sign of the Ram, the Lion, or the Archer; the Moon decreasing and Mars and Saturn conjoin.
		When All Hallows falls within the cycle of the new Moon the power shall be the strongest.
		Conjure Shub-Niggurath when the Beltane fires glow upon the hills and the Sun is in the Second House, repeating the Rites of Roodmas when the Black One appeareth.
	www.astrozombie.com /ga.html (243 words)

	Beltane
		The water was said to have Magickal properties on May mornings, and for this reason it was collected for drinking or bathing in.
		Germans have celebrated this day as the Feast of Saint Walpurga, while the Christians celebrated it as Roodmas with the death-affirming cross as their symbol, a symbol that is a complete opposite to the Wiccan/Pagan/Celtic feelings of this Sabbat.
		Old Beltane is an alternative date, around May 5th, that some modern covens usually celebrate.
	home.comcast.net /~sapphire_gem/Beltane.html (553 words)

	wheel year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Lady Day may also refer to other goddesses (such as Venus and Aphrodite), many of whom have festivals celebrated at this time.
		Beltane, known today in modern Irish as La Bealtaine and in Welsh as Galan-Mai, means "Calends of May".
		Hence, in the Christian calendar this was celebrated as 'Roodmas '.
	members.fortunecity.com /ironwings/wheel.html (1648 words)

	Beltane History and Lore presented by Crystal Forest
		He, in turn, may be traced to the Middle Eastern god Baal.
		Other names for May Day include: Cetsamhain ('opposite Samhain'), Walpurgisnacht (in Germany), and Roodmas (the medieval Church's name).
		This last came from Church Fathers who were hoping to shift the common people's allegiance from the Maypole (Pagan lingham - symbol of life) to the Holy Rood (the Cross - Roman instrument of death).
	www.crystalforest3.homestead.com /BELTANEhistory.html (1562 words)

	Beltaine
		The name for Beltaine 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).
		Other names for Beltaine include: Cetsamhain ('opposite Samhain'), Walpurgisnacht (in Germany), and Roodmas (the medieval Church's name).
		This last name came from Church Fathers who were hoping to shift the common people's allegiance from the Maypole (Pagan symbol of life) to the Holy Rood (the Cross).
	www.angelfire.com /wa3/angelline/beltaine.htm (926 words)

	Ireland's OWN Myths and Magic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Also known as the Fire Festival, Roodmas, May Day, the Feast of Saint Walpurga, Giamonios, Walpurgisnacht)
		The name Beltane is thought to derive from Bel or Light.
		Wearing of green was discouraged as was sexual promiscuity.
	irelandsown.net /beltane.html (745 words)

	Legacy of the Lurker
		The "monstrous Bat with a human Face" was "brought out of the Woods near Candlemas of 1683." This is reminiscent of the backwoods birth of goatlike Wilbur Whateley ("The Dunwich Horror") at Candlemas, having been conceived nine months earlier in an occult rite at Roodmas.
		And something similar is implied in The Cage of Charles Dexter Ward, wherein the Roodmas invocation of Yog-Sothoth will cause "ye thing [to] breede in ye Outside Spheres", presumably to be born nine months later at Candlemas.
		Indeed, there is some reason to interpret Joseph Curwen's ultimate design as being the same as Wizard Whateley's --- to unleash Yog-Sothoth upon the world, threatening "all civilization, all natural law, perhaps even the fate of the solar system and the universe" (The Case of Charles Dexter Ward).
	www.clare.ltd.new.net /cryptofcthulhu/legacyoflurker.htm (2548 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		CHORUS Well, I wish it could be Roodmas every day.
		When the kids start screaming as the world gets blown away Well, I wish it could be Roodmas every day Let the Old Ones out for Roodmas...
		Great Cthulhu will arise As the Shantaks fill the skies And you know Nyarlathotep will be there too As a congeries of globes Brings the King in yellow robes And you'll know then for certain that the whole Necronomicon was true.
	www.nyrond.co.uk /filks/shoggoth/roodmas2.txt (78 words)

	The Wandering Wiccan -- Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Beltane: A Wiccan festival celebrated on April 30 or May 1.
		Also known as May Eve, Roodmas, Walpurgis Night, Cethsamhain.
		Beltane celebrates the symbolic union, mating, or marriage of the Goddess and God, and links in with the approaching summer months.
	www.wanderingwiccan.com /glossary.htm (2462 words)

	Beltane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Other names for this holiday include Bealtinne, Beltine, Beltain, Beal-tine, Beltan, Bel-tien, Beltein, Bealtuinn, Bealtaine, Cetsamhain, May Eve, May Day, Galan Mai, Roodmas, Shenn da Boaldyn, Walburga, or Walpurgisnacht.
		Beltane is the last of the three spring fertility festivals, the other two being Imbolc and Ostara.
		It is said that the bread should not allow it to come into contact with steel during preparation for it is believed that steel is harmful, even deadly to faery folk.
	lilpagan.hyperchat.com /paghbeltane.html (1122 words)

	May Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Beginning in the 20th century, many neopagans began reconstructing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festival once more.
		Roodmas was an explicitly Christian mass celebrated in Britain at midnight on May 1, presumably to diminish the popularity of traditional Walpurgis Night celebrations.
		Traditional English May Day rites and celebrations include Morris dancing, crowning a May Queen, celebrating Green Man day and dancing around a Maypole.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/May_Day (3338 words)

	Literary Publications by Robert M. Price
		"Jung and Lovecraft on Prehuman Artifacts" Crypt of Cthulhu # 5 (Roodmas 1982)
		"Magna Mater: The Religion of Atys and Cybele" Crypt of Cthulhu # 72 (Roodmas 1990)
		"The Corpse-Spawn" Crypt of Cthulhu # 64 (Roodmas, 1989)
	www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com /ficlist.htm (2851 words)

	The Weather Doctor Almanac 2000
		I have to admit I did not know at the time what Beltane was, but soon was educated on the subject.
		I, like most of us, know it more as May Day rather than as Beltane or one of its other names (Walspurgisnacht, Roodmas, Floralia).
		Those of us who grew up or lived during the height of the Cold War, likely remember May Day as the day when Communist countries would parade in celebration of the working class, augmenting the show of worker solidarity with the latest armaments and strutting troops marching through the streets of Moscow and Beijing.
	www.islandnet.com /~see/weather/almanac/arc2000/alm00may.htm (828 words)

	Beltaine/1st May
		Roodmas, Rood Day, Feast of Saint Philip and Saint James, Feast of
		Beltane is the cross-quarter festival that marks the start of the
		The festival is sometimes referred to as Roodmas, a name coined by the
	www.angelfire.com /magic2/bluetail/documents/1624.html (1208 words)

	Beltane
		Beltane is also known as May Day, Walpurgisnacht, and Roodmas.
		Beltane was a time of fertility and unbridled merrymaking, when young and old would spend the night making love in the Greenwood.
		Will heed this song that calls them back.
	www.asiya.org /sabbats/beltane.html (2035 words)

	Beltaine
		Not only was it a feast dedicate to pagan deities, but it was a celebration of frolic and physical love, considered a grave sin by the Church.
		The name Roodmas was adopted in an attempt to shift the focus of the day from the pagan may pole to the Christian cross, which sadly resulted in placing a symbol of death over one of life.
		One who is familiar with the United Kingdom will note that while May Day is still observed there as a popular Day Off!
	ladyhedgehog.hedgie.com /holidays/beltaine.html (889 words)

	Roodmas
		This ritual is along the lines of the "Quem Quæritas Trope", the oldest-known recorded mystery play, which was usually performed right before Easter Mass.
		Roodmas (the English name for "Beltaine", as in the set with Candlemas, Lammas, and Hallowmas) should be performed as near 1 May as is practical.
		The altar is laid out without candles; an altar cloth is permissible.
	www.hayseed.net /~taliesin/monsalvat/rituals/roodmas.html (2269 words)

	Beltain- Festival of Fertility (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		When the sun is at 15 degrees Taurus or April 30 - May 1
		Beltane, Beltain, Beltaine, May Day, Walburga, Galan Mai, Shenn de Boaldyn, Bealtinne, Beltine, Beal-tine, Rudemas, Roodmas, Cetsamhain, Walpurgisnacht.
		May Eve, Tana's Day, La Giornata di Tana, Samhradh, La Baal Tinne, Whitsun
	www.sacredhearth.com /Spirituality/Sabbats/beltain.html (342 words)

	Library Link - Featured Article
		Madrigals are still sung from the roof of the tower in Magdalen College.
		May Day also marks springtime celebrations such as Walpurgis Night in Northern Europe; Beltane in Ireland and Scotland; and Roodmas.
		In 1995, the Roman Catholic Church also added to the May Day festivals by making it Saint Joseph’s Day, thus Christianizing this holiday as the day of “Saint Joseph, the Worker.”
	www.librarylink.org.ph /featarticle.asp?articleid=69 (776 words)

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