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Pastimes : May Day, also known as Beltane
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To: jbe who wrote (1220)5/2/1999 7:55:00 PM
From: E   of 2063
 
Message 9268856

I'd be for sticking to any motif that will allow us to talk funny.

This festival as you describe it has real comic possibilities:

The summer solstice is the symbolic 'orgasm' of the year, it
is when the gods consumate their pacts to each other and to
us. As the god's orgasm ends, he suffers 'le petit mort'. This
little death of the god and his bounteous semen are the sun
gods own sacrifice to us and the goddess.

The guys might not like the next festival, Lughnasadh, quite
as much. It comes on "August eve" (July 31):

This is the time of the harvest festival.... Lugh, the celtic sun
god,has passed beyond 'le petit mort', and is ritually
slaughtered at this time.

He is demasculated as the crops are cut. This symbolism of
the reaping is very important, the sun god's erection has
wilted and if they are not harvested the crops will wilt as
well. So the corn-sun god is cut short, cropped at this time so
that we may remember him at his prime.
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