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:Beltane :
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PAULO By Mikel Marton
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Beltane: The Tree of Life
When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair...
--Loreena McKennitt
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair...
--Loreena McKennitt
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Beltane is one of the four "fire festivals" or "greater sabbats". Although the holiday may use features of the Gaelic Bealtaine, such as the bonfire, it bears more relation to the Germanic May Day festival, both in its significance (focusing on fertility) and its rituals (such as maypole dancing). Some Wiccans celebrate 'High Beltaine' by enacting a ritual union of the May Lord and Lady.[4] * ( wheel of the year)
Saturday, April 11, 2009
: Origins of the name "Easter :
The name "Easter" originated with the names of an ancient Goddess and God. The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly, the "Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility [was] known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." 1 Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre." Similar Goddesses were known by other names in ancient cultures around the Mediterranean, and were celebrated in the springtime. Some were: Pagan origins of Easter:
 | Aphrodite from ancient Cyprus |
| Ashtoreth from ancient Israel |
| Astarté from ancient Greece |
| Demeter from Mycenae |
| Hathor from ancient Egypt |
| Ishtar from Assyria |
| Kali, from India |
| Ostara a Norse Goddess of fertility. |
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