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May Celebrations That Aren\u2019t About Sex: https://atheopaganism.wordpress.com/2019/04/10/may-celebrations-that-arent-about-sex/How\u2019s that Maypole Thing Work?: https://atheopaganism.wordpress.com/2018/04/22/hows-that-maypole-thing-work/https://theapsocietyorg.wordpress.com/community/\nBeltane 2020 Episode: https://thewonderpodcast.podbean.com/e/its-beltane/\nBeltane 2021 Episode: https://thewonderpodcast.podbean.com/e/beltanemay-day/\n\xa0\nS3E15 TRANSCRIPT:----more----\nYucca: Welcome back to the wonder science-based paganism. I'm one of your hosts. Yucca\xa0\nMark: and I'm the other one, Mark.\nYucca: and today we're talking may day Beltane second spring, all of those, whatever name you call it.\nMark: Yay. Summer is a coming in. And winter's gone away. Oh\xa0\nYucca: It is, I, we were just saying, this is actually our third may day episode that we'll be doing.\xa0\nMark: Yes.\xa0\nYucca: So we'll put the links to the other ones. If you want to check those out as well for inspiration and things like that, we'll probably talk about a lot of the same things this time around is that's one of the things about it was cyclical holiday year, right?\nWe come back to some of the same themes each year, but hopefully there'll be some new things in this episode as well.\nMark: Sure for sure. Especially because you know, now at this particular moment, we are in a place where we're sort of gingerly, tentatively coming out of COVID.\xa0\nYucca: I think we've said this so many times.\xa0\nMark: I know, I know. And who knows? I mean, there, there could be another variant that. Pigs the needle again, but I really hope that this around this time, when it seems that the numbers are generally low, people can have gatherings in person And, celebrate because in most places in the Northern hemisphere, the weather is beautiful and it's just a really lovely time of year.\nYucca: And, and it's a holiday that is often associated with outdoor activity. Unlike say the winter solstice where it's a lot of it's about being bundled up and inside and cozy and sharing drinks with each other. And. You know,\xa0\nMark: right,\xa0\nYucca: has more of an outdoor, you know, in the park bonfire, those of you who live near the beach.\nBet, that would be amazing know fire on the beach. Maybe that would be wonderful, but yeah.\nMark: The. The image that I have in relation to Mayday or Beltane . And we're going to talk about naming in a minute has to do with emergence into the outdoors. It's like, you know, we've spring arrives in at different times in different places based on climb in elevation and, and All of those different factors.\nBut by the beginning of may, mostly. It's comfortable to go outside and there's this kind of exuberance about getting out from the walls and, you know, out into the sun and experiencing the bright new leaves of the foliage and All that wonderful stuff. So it's just, there's a, there's an enthusiasm about this holiday that I really love.\xa0\nYucca: Yeah.\nMark: So let's talk about names cause we've got a bunch of them, the the, the word bell team, which is used by most of the pagan community to, to designate this holiday. And we'll talk about what defines the holiday in a sec comes from the Irish bail to. Which is actually just the name of a month. It's the name of the month of may.\nAnd there's a similar word in Scott's Irish as in Scott's Gaelic as well. And both of those are often used as You know, kind of placeholder for the beginning of may holiday. But I don't actually use those Celtic names myself because I don't.\nYucca: You don't have a specifically Celtic practice.\xa0\nMark: I I don't. And and I also deliberately sort of stripped cultural references out of my practice when I started doing atheopagan ism, because I wanted to avoid any possibility of cultural appropriation, which we're going to talk about in a future episode. And and I wanted there to be kind of a blank slate for people to create their own new traditions and symbols and all that kind of stuff.\xa0\nYucca: Sure and