Belleteyn

Belleteyn, sometimes known a May Day, takes place on the night of May Eve, the night of April 30th into May 1st. It is a fertility festival beginning at dusk on the 30th and continuing until the dawn of the 1st. It is also a traditional time to begin (or end) relationships of a physical nature. Food, drink and love are the order of the evening making this celebration a time of many marriages. Bonfires abound, and revellers are encouraged to jump the flames for luck and their own fertility.

I has been said that the union of the God and Goddess to conceive the sun-child to be takes place upon this holiday. Historically it has been one of the holidays most discouraged by "organized" religion. Children conceived on this day will grow up to wield great power and knowledge and enjoy excellent health. May poles are symbols of the union of the God and Goddess to create life, the poles being phallic symbols while the dancers and their streamers or vines of flowers represent the fertile womb of the goddess as it takes in the phallus of the god and his seed. '