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The Merry Month of May

How ancient traditions evolved into the springtime festivals May Day and Beltane.

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, ancient, Fertility, ancient times, Beltane, upper torso, winter season, tall pole, Celebration, ancient fertility festivals, pre Christian European religions

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Let's Have 'Holy Days of Celebration'

Catholics have lost touch with the festive beauty and poetry of holy days--thinking of them merely as days of 'obligation.'

Related Topics: Faiths, Catholic, Festival, Celebration, Mortal Sin, Catholics, pragmatic American culture, fertility festivals, Sin, human life cycle, Rules, festival dimensions

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Loose Canon Archive: December 2004

Charlotte Hays's daily weblog on religion, spirituality, and politics.

The Scholars and the Goddess

Are the 'ancient' rituals of the Goddess movement 20th-century creations?

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, Religion, Goddess, Wiccan, Pagan, twentieth century, pagan religion, gardner, accused witches, secular authorities, late eighteenth century German historian

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Beltane, the Animals, and Us

We have built a 'meat-engorged urban economy' with no regard for the souls of cattle. Is the logical result Mad Cow Disease?

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, cow, Animal, Beltane, cattle, farming practices, Mad Cow, Food, incubation period, meat engorged urban economy, Factory Farms

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Beltane, the Animals, and Us

We have built a meat-engorged urban economy with no regard for the souls of cattle. Is the logical result Mad Cow Disease?

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, cow, cattle, Animal, Beltane, farming practices, Mad Cow, Food, incubation period, Factory Farms, meat engorged urban economy

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Celebrating Candlemas

It's the dawn of the year, the time when a pregnant woman begins showing, time to creep out of hibernation like a groundhog.

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, Purification, Fire, Goddess, Winter Solstice, Feast Day, pagan spring festival, candle, thorough house cleaning, Spring, bringing candles

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Earth Mysteries

An unusual astrological conjunction is amplifying the message of the Taurus new moon

Related Topics: Faiths, Food, Earth, natural stages, astrological, tender shoots, creative projects, unusual astrological conjunction, Moon, ancient earth mysteries, earliest religious festivals

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An Invitation From the Sun

Celebrating life, light, and love at Beltaine also known as Beltane, the old Celtic name for May Day.

Related Topics: Faiths, Earth Based Religions, May Day, Celtic, beltaine, Life, Light, spiralling wheel, Flower, inner calling, Earth, spiritual tradition, woods singing songs, Sun

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Beliefnet's weblog of religion and spirituality in the news and on the internet

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fertility festivals

The Merry Month of May

Let's Have 'Holy Days of Celebration'

Loose Canon Archive: December 2004

The Scholars and the Goddess

Beltane, the Animals, and Us

Beltane, the Animals, and Us

Celebrating Candlemas

Earth Mysteries

An Invitation From the Sun

B-log

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