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Category: Beltane
What to Bring: Drums & Percussion for drum circle, plus Ribbons f
Price/Donation: Free
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Event Id: 64970
Posted: Jun.28.2009
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The Moon Path Chapter of CUUPS [Witchvox Sponsor] presents...
2010 (3) May Day Family Picnic Beltain
When: Apr. 24th. 2010
Where: Oakland Park, Florida
May Day Family Picnic - Beltain
Event Details: The Moon Path Chapter of
Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS) will host a
May Day Festival, Family Picnic, and Sun Celebration
12:00 PM - 7 PM, Saturday, April 24, 2010,
Unitarian Universalist Church of Ft. Lauderdale,
3970 NW 21st Ave. (between Commercial and Oakland Park) ,
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl 33309, 954-484-6734. Free.
The public is invited to attend the
May Day Festival and Sun Celebration
which will honor the Ancient ways.
Bring non-perishable food items and clothing, (or cash donation)
to be donated to the Cooperative Feeding Program of Broward County.
Witch's Mark will perform their
special brand of music 3 PM to 5 PM
http://www.witchsmark.com/
Bring your own picnic food and drink.
Bring your drums and
percussion instruments for the drum circle and ritual.
Food will be available for purchase from
KING OF CUUPS CATERING
http://www.kingofcuups.com/
Bring Ribbons for the May Pole. Each one = 18 feet or 6 yards.
Feel free to come dressed in garb/costume.
Fun and Games for kids of all ages -
Picnic (BYOF/D InOrOutside)
Pagan Education - Networking with other Pagans
Children's Program - Story Telling - Pee Wee Pagans - Teen Room
Vendors in air conditioned facilities:
(Ceramics, Drums, Henna Artist, Food, Jewelry, Massage Therapist,
Psychic, Reiki Healing, Rune Reading, Sarongs, Soaps,
Tarot Reading, T-Shirts, Various Merchandise)
12 PM -Opening
12:30 PM -Walking the Labyrinth is an outside activity
1 PM -Story Telling - Pee Wee Pagans - Teen Room
2 PM -Drum Circle - outside on patio
(bring your own drums/musical instruments)
3 PM -Witch's Mark' - Pagan Band outside on patio
3 PM -Sadie of the Hawk: The Queen of the May will select her King;
May Pole Dancing with ribbons
5 Pm -Raffle Drawing
5:15 PM -Pre Ritual Grounding Meditation - TBD
5:30 PM -May Day Sun Celebration
Anyone wishing to stay and participate is welcome.
Visit the CUUPS Moon Path Chapter website for details on pagan activities.
http://MoonPathCUUPS.org
The full moon in the month of May is called the Flower Moon.
This year the Flower Moon is May 27, 2010 23:07 Universal Time.
The Year is divided into Quarters by the
Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and the Fall Equinox.
Halfway between the Solstice and and Equinox is the Cross Quarter.
These Quarters and Cross Quarters are called
the Wheel of the Year of the Sun.
MayDay (Beltaine)
is one of the 4 Cross Quarter Sun Celebrations in the Wheel of the Year.
It is halfway between the two Quarter Sun Celebrations,
Spring Equinox (Ostara) and Summer Solstice (Litha) .
Exactly opposite November 1 (Samhain (SOW-in/Ireland) )
on the wheel of the year.
This year the Cross Quarter is on May 5
when the Sun reaches 15 degrees Taurus
but it is always celebrated on April 30/May 1.
In the highlands of Scotland and England all the Cross Quarters are
considered times of being able to cross over to the "other world".
This is the time considered by some to be the start of spring.
The month of May was named after either the Roman fertility Goddess Maia,
or the Greek Goddess Maia, mother of Apollo and Artemis;
originally a mountain nymph, later identified as the most beautiful
of the Seven Sisters, the Pleiades. By Zeus, she is also the
mother of Hermes, god of magic.
Maia's parents were Atlas and Pleione, a sea nymph.
The ancient Egyptians had both a lunar and seasonal (solar) 365 day calendar,
which was divided into three seasons of four months each.
Each month consisted of 30 days (3 weeks of 10 days per week) .
Five days called 'Heriu-renpet' were added to the solar calendar
at the end of the three seasons for the birth of the Goddesses/Gods.
An extra day would be added as needed.
The heliacal rise of Sirius just before dawn was
an extremely important event for the Ancient Egyptians.
The first visibility of the star Sirius on the morning sky,
called heliacal rising, fell close to the Inundation of the
Nile and was the beginning of the Ancient Egyptian solar year.
The first new moon after the heliacal rising was the beginning of the lunar year.
3, 000 years ago the heliacal rising was in early July, currently it is around
August 1st. Each lunar month was named after an Ancient Egyptian Goddess,
God, or major festival. In a year with 13 new moons, the 13th lunar month
was added to the end of the year.
The Ancient Egyptian (Kemet) ninth lunar month from
April 14, 2010 to May 13, 2010 is Hnsw (PA-n-) /xnsw/Pachons and is Sacred to
Khonsu/Khensu the falcon headed moon God who is the decider of the life span,
also the God of time, knowledge, healing, and giver of oracles.
The Ancient Egyptian (Kemet) tenth lunar month from
May 14, 2010 to June 11, 2010 is Hnt-Htj/pA-n-Int/Payni and is Sacred to
Khenthy/Kentamenti/Khenti/Khenti-Amenti/Khenti-Amentiu/,
the wolf/funerary God who embodied all deceased kings buried at Abydos
and assimilated with Anibus and then Osiris.
He is one of the husbands of the vulture-Goddess Nekhbet.
The Ancient Egyptian ninth solar month from
March 29 to April 27 is Shomu/Shemu I (low-water) when crops were harvested.
The Ancient Egyptian tenth solar month from
April 28 to May 27 is Shomu/Shemu II (low-water) when crops were harvested.
The ancient Hellenic lunar months would start on the new moon and a
new day would start at sunset. The new year would start on the new moon
before the Autumn Equinox. Except for Athens which used the new moon
following the Summer Solstice. I use the Autumn Equinox and the lunar
month of Boedromion for my calculations for the new year. In a year
with 13 new moons, the 13th lunar month (Poseideon II) was inserted
between the 4th (Poseideon) and 5th (Gamelion) lunar months around
December/January. A different Goddess/God was honored for the
full moon of the month.
The Ancient Hellenic eighth lunar month from
April 14, 2010 to May 13, 2010 is Mounykhion and the
full moon is dedicated to Aphrodite (Venus) ,
the Goddess of beauty, love, and spring;
There were many festivals in the month of Mounykhion.
The Mounykhia festival on the 16th day honors Artemis as
Moon Goddess and Lady of the Beasts; There is a procession
in which the people carry Amphiphontes (Shining-all-round) ,
round cakes in which dadia (little torches) are stuck,
much like the cakes offered to Hekate;
later these are offered to the Artemis with a prayer.
The Ancient Hellenic ninth lunar month from
May 14, 2010 to June 11, 2010 is Thargelion and the
full moon is dedicated to Apollon the God of music.
The Thargelia is a harvest (First-fruit Offering) festival
for Apollo (as a guardian of crops) ,
it has two parts, purification and offering.
The 6th is the first day of the festival.
This is the birthday of Apollos's sister, Artemis and is a day of purification.
Two (preferably unattractive) men, the Pharmakoi (Scape-Goats) ,
who have been fed by the people, are led around the city,
and then driven away by fig-branches and (poisonous) squill-bulbs
(used for purification) . One Pharmakos wears a necklace of black figs,
which represent the men of the city, and the other wears one of
white figs, representing the women.
Then the second day, the 7th which is Apollos's birthday,
is for a first-fruits offering to the God;
the Thargelos is made by boiling corn and other vegetables in a pot.
There are separate hymn singing contests for men's and boys' choirs;
the winners receive a tripod, which they then dedicated to the God.
The Roman calendar was originally lunar.
The first days was the kalends (from which the modern word calendar is derived) ,
the first quarter was the nones, and the full moon was the ides.
A crown of flowers was hung over the hearth, and sacrifices were made to the
Lares, or household gods on the kalends, nones, ides, and all feast days.
The waning moon was the unlucky part of the month and had no name.
The days were numbered backward from the first of the next month.
The ancient Roman solar calendar consisted of 10 months in a year of 304 days.
The Romans seem to have ignored the remaining 61 days, which fell in the middle
of winter, the unmarked "Terror Time". The 10 months were named Martius,
Aprilis, Maius, Junius, Quintilis, Sextilis, September, October, November,
and December. The year began with Martius "March". Numa Pompilius,
the second king of Rome circa 700 BC, added the two months Januarius "January"
and Februarius "February". He also moved the beginning of the year from Marius
to Januarius. This made the Roman year 365 days long.
The month of Aprilis, the modern April,
was originally the second month of the Roman civil year.
The origin of the name Aprilis is unknown.
The poet Ovid suggested that it was derived from the word aperrtum, open,
as in the opening of the season of spring.
There is also a similarity to the word apricus,
which means sunny or warmed by the sun.
The month of Maius, the modern May,
was originally the third month of the civil year
and is dedicated to the Goddess Maia.
Maius is derived from the name of the Goddess.
Nos Galon Mai ushers in the fifth month of the modern calendar year,
the month of May.
In ancient Italy, Cardea, the White Goddess, was celebrated as the Queen of May.
Cardea presided over marriage and childbirth and she carried a protective
hawthorn bough.
The Celtic Blodeuwedd, wife of Lleu was also associated with
hawthorn and celebrated as the Queen of May.
MayDay is a powerful holiday, filled with legend and tradition
that goes back farther than most recorded history.
One of the most famous is probably the Maypole, a tall pole of oak
adorned with a hawthorne garland and many brightly colored ribbons.
The ribbons would be held by the many participants who danced their
way around the Maypole in opposing directions, weaving in and out
until the people were almost arm in arm and the Maypole was woven
with bright springtime colors from top to bottom.
The Maypole is actually a symbol for fertility of the land, and the ribbons
being wound represent the movement of energies between the Earth and the Sky
(The Goddess and the God) that causes the plants to grow and the world to re-awaken.
The Maypole, associated with May festivals, is traceable to an ancient Greek figure
known as a herm, named for Hermes. The earliest form of a herm was simply a
wooden column upon which a ritual mask was hung.
The Maypole, a phallic symbol, represents the masculine.
The soft, colorful ribbons represent the feminine.
The union of the two symbolizes the union of the God and Goddess.
In ancient Egypt there was the Dejed-piler resembling a stylized tree.
The djed pillar (pronounced Zed) is a khemetic hieroglyphic symbol
which stands for stability. It represents the backbone of Osiris
which is the greek form of the khemetic Asir. The Djed was raised
at various times, during the end of the A'aperti's reign &
the coronation of a new one, and also during the winter solstice.
The common people raised the djed pillar during times of failing
crops to ensure fertility which has to do with Asir being a Netjer
of resurrection. During the raising of the djed festival the
A'aperti or the pharaoh would run a certain course to prove that
he was still fit to rule. It was decorated with a Tet Knot (bow)
and Dejeds (flanges) to represent the union of Isis and Osiris.
MayDay is a festival of Rebirth, traditionally a fertility festival.
It is a celebration of the re-awakening of the earth, the opening of
the flowers, the rebirth of all that had 'died' throughout the Winter's
cold rule. There is encouragement for the crops to begin growing and the
cattle to give birth to the next generation. Birds and animals are mating.
In the fields, newly planted seeds are beginning to grow.
Great fires are lit honoring the fertility God Belenos.
Some leap the fires to show the exuberance of the season.
The Land represented by the Goddess is now ripe and fertile and the
Young God expresses His Love for Her.
It is legend that children conceived at Mayday were gifted by the gods.
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) .
He, in turn, may be traced to the Middle Eastern god Baal.
MayDay is also known as: Bealtaine; Bealtinne; Beal-tine; Bealtuinn; Beltan;
Beltain; Beltein; Beltine; Bel-tien, Nos Galan MaiS; Shenn da Boaldyn; Walburga.
The Year is divided into Quarters by the
Winter Solstice, Spring Equinox, Summer Solstice, and the Fall Equinox.
Halfway between the Solstice and Equinox is the Cross Quarter.
These Quarters and Cross Quarters are called the Wheel of the Year of the Sun.
The eight Sun Celebrations in the Wheel of the Year are:
Wiccan name: Druid Name
Samhain November 1 (Cross Quarter)
Yule December 20-22 (Winter Solstice) Alban Arthan
Imbolc February 2 (Cross Quarter)
Ostara March 20-22 (Spring Equinox) Alban Eiler
Beltaine May 2 (Cross Quarter)
Litha June 20-22 (Summer Solstice) Alban Hefin
Lammas August 1 (Cross Quarter)
Mabon September 20-22 (Autumn Equinox) Alban Elfed
Event Location: 3970 NW 21st Ave in Oakland Park
Event TIME Details: Noon to 7 PM
Directions: between Commercial and Oakland Park
Phone: (954) 484-6734
Website: http://moonpathcuups.webs.com/beltainmayday.htm
Website II: http://MoonPathCUUPS.org
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