@@MrMarkhall1 No. Why should it be?

It’s a tradition fertility celebration that far predates christianity

​@@tiffparz8749 No it isn't - the earliest reference to the maypole is from the mid 1300's. It was a focal point for community celebrations to welcome in the warmer months.

@@YorkyOne exactly, and what goes along with the rebirth of everything in the spring ? Fertility ! It has pagan / naturalistic roots… celebration of spring. ✌️

@@tiffparz8749 Well, no doubt Mr & Mrs Caveman welcomed in the warm weather and the new growth - so if you wish to call such celebrations 'pagan' that's fine by me. But your original comment referred to the video which shows maypole dancing with ribbons. I simply pointed out that there is no evidence that maypoles are much older than the Middle Ages. And the ribbon type dance as shown in the video is early 19th century.

hahaha proovin the belief is be lief is be life is be lie'f IS belief that thar' be life

This could very well be symbolic captain of the male phallus and his SEA MEN. It is the MaLe PoLe

Yes you are right

It's pagan and I was forced to do this at first school in England. I am a Jehovah's witness now and baptised. It was a horror to do such a thing aggent Jehovah God in the Bible which was out of my control 🤢 same with Christmas and birthdays all pagan all part of Satan

@@xflora-chanx How are these things part of Satan? Especially birthdays? I've never heard that one before. Christianity didn't appear over night in the whole world, it only started 2000 years ago and spread from Christ. People worshipped God for 100,000 years before he revealed himself in Christ, I don't know why he waited until 2000 years ago, but before that he only gave his grace to the Israelites and so how can you condemn all the other people Christ died for, for choosing to worship God as best as they knew how without God helping them? Anyway, Christ didn't condemn pagans, he just told them that now God is here they can worship him properly, the only time he criticise pagan practises is when he accuse them of rambling and saying many pointless words while praying thinking that saying more words makes God hear their prayers any louder, but Christ's disciples fully acknowledged that they were all praying to the Father, Jehovah whether they knew it or not. This all Jesus has to say about gentile pagans, Mathew 6:7. Here are some other thoughts from the Bible. 1 Corinthians 10:25-30. Acts 14:15-17. Acts 28:28. Romans 9:22-30. 1 Peter 4:3-6. There are many more examples of how the pagans/gentiles are not innately evil, only the worst practises of human sacrifice are condemned, but other than they they are viewed as just ignorant and only live a lewd life because they don't know what God wants for them.

@@xflora-chanx Why are you watching this video then?? Stop watching things that you consider to be evil.

Yes, it started when we dumped English tea into Boston harbor and became a nation of coffee drinkers.

@@chrisnewton9670 I laugh when you Americans refer to the patriots as “we” they were literally settled Englishman of which you probably share 5% genetic likeness with and myself 95% lol

@@anglonrx2754 You're not wrong. My ancestors were mostly German and French and came to North American in the late 1700s. And the Maypole Dance isn't exclusive to England. These kids were having a good time, celebrating with their take on an age old tradition. Why you feel you must tear it down is beyond me. Also, the patriots who started the American Revolution didn't consider themselves English.

@@chrisnewton9670 they certainly did consider themselves english your founding fathers said the English were the finest race on the earth (I kid you not) and wanted the US badge to consist of the founders of the English race hengst and horsa to show their English heritage and Anglo-Saxon government. I’m aware maypole is celebrated across American countries but America tends to bastardise and commercialise these things and ruin them for everyone else. Halloween is a good example once a celebration exclusively of the British isles a very sacred time for some but important time for all now commercialised and degraded beyond belief.

Gatekeeping poledancing lol

You are so right

Gatekeeping Maypole dancing...now I've read everything lol

I did it in 1955 at an even more lively musical pace than that, so...

@@finight9 I thought it was a German (Bavarian) tradition.

@@Bright-It Many European countries have their own maypole dances. This isn't the Bandertanz though. The moves and the music are different to what you'd seen in Germany.

Carolina is barely 300 years old I don’t think any tradition done there is from time immemorial

@@moist_onions Maybe. Immemorial -- "time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary." Time is somewhat relative (even in the non-Einsteinian perspective). When I lived in California, "last Tuesday" was a long time ago, and "last year" was ancient history. NC claims its beginnings with the Sir Walter Raleigh voyages and his sponsored settlements, and the Lost Colony of 1585, though the official Charter of Carolina to the Eight Lords Proprietors was not granted until 1663 by Chas. II. The settlers brought with them many of their traditions of the old country -- including the Maypole, and even the occasional group of Morris (or "Morys" if you're a really hardcore traditionalist) Dancers.

Bc it's penis worship.

That's because having fun is a pagan thing.

@@CSharpRenan Dig it. I am a pagan of the most pagan order.

Well, I'm a Christian but love a great may pole. Merry meet. Thank you for sharing!!!! Bless yall. Never seen so many do a ribbon dance.

Because they hated everything fun.

@@nodruj8681 Cope, traditions are worthless if they can't entertain me

@@nodruj8681 Living better than any p*gan

Right

@@carihudson9300 You got that right. Ever hear of the bock Saga? it's the history of the survivors of the Vaticanus destroyers.

Waypole dancing

Tradition

The hanky waving at the beginning is from Cotswolds Morris tradition.

@Boujie Pickle I’ve no idea, maybe it’s a girls school. Cotswold Morris was until very recently strictly a male activity. These people are amalgamating traditions.

I Rodger that.

this is not true maypole dancing No way

The dance they did up to the actual maypole dancing is called Morris dancing. They just lack bells.

It looks like a pretty regular lower middle class school to me. You must be from shithole-istan.

bashpr0mpt why do you keep spreading hate on every maypole dancing video? If you don’t like them so much just stop watching no one is forcing you to do so

Sarah Hazlett that sounds like an amazing plan and would be wonderful to see them forming the patterns! It’s for all ages tbh! It’d be lovely to get some guys doing some Morris dancing (I’m not sure the history of it but it seems to be a dance only males do?!).

Actually, and I'm speaking as someone who's tried to do some real research into maypole dancing, it's not a British tradition in origin. The earliest English maypole dance with ribbons was only 160 years ago. (maypoles without ribbons go much further back, but are also a tradition we share with Europe) Maypole with ribbons is a tradition that we imported from Spain and France via the London stage. It's widespread in other European countries - there are maypole dances in Italy, Germany, Portugal, etc. They took their traditional dances to Latin America, which has a fantastic collection of 'maypole' dances right across the continent. If you want to see the best maypole dancing in the world, go to Brazil. They do really complex moves, with great precision, with adults in traditional Spanish costumes. They use totally different music to us Brits. With that many children, I'm not surprised they went for a walking performance. Keeping that many children synchronised is a nightmare, and slowing them down and calling it every time reduces the risk. You know how it is with plaits, just one kid makes one mistake weaving it, and you can't undo it. I've seen a video of the traditional German maypole dance - performed by adults, men in lederhosen and women in dirndls - where one of the 200 performers made a mistake and the dance failed on the undo. That dance, by the way, is traditionally danced to a walking waltz, not a jig.

@@JudithProctor I've read that pagan anglo saxons used to celebrate the coming of spring by tying ribbons to trees and dancing around them, i'm pretty sure the tradition is much older than 160 years. England is a germanic region so yes the traditions are very related to scandinavia and germany.

@@livw3090 Dancing round the maypole does indeed go back far more than 160 years in England. Decorating the poles is also a part of that old tradition. But weaving the ribbons round the pole is a Southern European tradition that we imported around 160 years ago. If you look at earlier English maypole images, they are always of decorated poles, but the dancers are not holding ribbons. Roy Judge did some excellent research if you can track down any of his articles on Jstor or similar.

@@JudithProctor Ah thank you! I'll have to look more into that

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