Beltane Maypole Dance Glastonbury 2009

[@ElizabethDermody]

This is beautiful. Thanks for the video. Blessed Be.

[@terbeargrooves]

Looks like I'm a bit late to this fest, but it's still May 1 here in the States. We danced the Maypole when I was a child in school. Thank you so much for posting this! Happy Beltaine 2012! :-)

[@Ginger3868]

Beautiful, we have our own Maypole in Idaho :x love to you in Glastonbury!

[@cathydegraw212]

One year my daughter and I did this in middle of garden before planting. It was awesome. My garden was great too.

[@skyethewolf]

I remember doing something like this in music in elementary school. It was so fun!

[@barbaragarb9453]

So much fun ,,,,the closer to the bottom you get the crazier it becomes. Been so many years since I have done this....sure miss it

[@amaryllisnightingale6309]

a tradition i hope i can experience one day

[@vrouwkje]

I wish I was there!! 5* Thanks for posting. Blessed Be

[@MathewTylerKinsell]

So peaceful and beautiful :)

[@AVALONELFY]

No tickets it was a comunity event and was free for all to join in

[@cathykoch5393]

Beautiful!

[@PandoraKyss]

Watching this, not only the dance itself but everyone else - the band, the girl sitting on the ground, and so on - I feel something familiar; something that touches my Pagan soul. I've only participated in the Maypole dance once, and it was not very good as it was not a pole but a ribbon at a local public circle. It was fun and chaotic, but this is magical.

[@Moon_Dyes]

Happy Beltane!

[@mikesey1]

This was at Bushey Coombe wasn't it? Heard it from my bedroom windows., then went to look but too late to capture this event! Nice one. Five stars. Mike.

[@funnybleh]

My students enjoyed this!

[@ogrebattle22763]

I will thank you... Peace...

[@oreosis]

that looks like so mush fun! i hope when im older i can go to one

[@XXMissCozzieXX]

Its not in a state, it's a town in England. In fact i live right next to it ^^

[@TiffanyDoll]

looks so fun!!! but it seems like it takes forever to finish too :)

[@MooCowMama]

@MooCowMama I guess I should say *if* the wreath reaches the bottom... poor Goddess didn't get hers this time :(

[@AmorLezelf]

Great Maypole!!

[@firekeeper3536]

I kind of getting it now. Since they are adults they have to cover almost all of the pole with the strings in representation of their life so much. And when little kids dance around the Maypole they only cover 1/9 of it. Interesting.

[@jasonmcdaniel4571]

DID they do the book of names and knot tying ceremonies too? the old promenade? 13 year olds could pledge to one another and 16 year olds could marry. was the old tradition wasn't it I can't remember? has it changed since reformationism?

[@emirseymen2230]

WOW COOL

[@anyways345]

@Nyghtshade409 where are you located? why is it not allowed?

[@araveenbeauchamp5830]

can someone tell me the proper colors for maypole just needing to know thanks and blessed be

[@itsamandamydude3788]

Araveen Beauchamp im late but red and white! red to represent the menstrual blood of women and white is the semen of men. Some covens have gone to rainbow ribbons for their lgbt+ members.

[@YorkyOne]

@@itsamandamydude3788 Errrmm..you do realise that dancing around a maypole with ribbons is a late Victorian creation, don't you?

[@spacedtime6597]

I have some kind of horrific memory from practicing the maypole dance from when I was about 6. I get filled with terror just watching this or thinking about maypoles.. I think I need some regression hypnosis to figure out what it is. I must have blocked it from my memories, or Im remembering something from a former life.

[@patstokes3615]

I'll tell you what it was. They wanted you to dress like a girl.

[@newtwiclipsedawn101]

Glastonbury........ In what state? O.o sorry, I'm horrible at geography.

[@xVinceCx]

Really, Jet65.....the ancient Britons...BEHAVED....! lol :O

[@Joeyal123]

@Welliscah dont feel bad i live in florida its mail Scientologist and Catholic and Protestant but there is Pagans here but none thats near me ;(

[@RinaFlowers]

I also want so ((

[@ogrebattle22763]

What is Beltane?

[@TeamDraven]

Hengwah.

[@anyways345]

@Nyghtshade409 wow! for your sake, I really hope you'll get to 'break out' soon!

[@majestic75]

i actually watch the whole 937 min.

[@dalmationham]

i liked the maypole dance, although I know as a Christian that it's a pagan tradition. The whooping freaked me out a little though. But to each his own! :c)

[@ughgross1258]

Yep we like whoop lol

[@YorkyOne]

@@ughgross1258 And dancing around the maypole with ribbons is a late Victorian 'tradition'.

[@ZoombieBloodimir]

oww *ww*

[@Lugh444]

Why do "Pagans" need to dress like they bought their clothes at a Renaissance fair? Hehe

[@ughgross1258]

Because we're honoring our ancestors, the time paganism was at its peak and it looks cool

[@tinabarger6011]

We also wear things that come from the Earth and respect her gifts.

[@shedhead1000]

TOSSERS