May Day
May 1st, May Day is not the most popular or well-known of pagan holidays but it is seeing a resurgence as the religion of Wicca, Nordic religion and paganism in general is seeing a revival of sorts. Most all anyone knows of May Day is going around the Maypole; decorating it with multicolored ribbons, creating a colorful braid down the pole as it is being circled, and May baskets. Seems an innocent way to celebrate Spring and the coming Summer. It’s just children frolicking and dancing around a pole with ribbons and baskets, right? But what is this day really all about?
May Day stems from the Celtic and now Wiccan festival of Beltane, another form of Baal (sun) and Ishtar (fertility) worship. The Maypole is a phallic symbol, and the circling ribbons being braided round the pole round represents intercourse and conception. Religious orgies would also take place around ancient Maypoles.
May 1st is one of the eight days of the year sacred to Satan; it is a witch's sabbath. Some people believe that the Maypole was a spiritual vortex or gateway by which demons trapped in the earth could be released. Interestingly enough, All Saints Day, on November 1st. This day falls exactly six months after May Day, and is another witches' sabbath. May 1st is also called a cross-quarter day which is a day falling approximately halfway between a solstice and an equinox. Wiccans call the cross-quarter days, “the Greater Shabbats,” or the greater sabbaths. This is a cross-quarter day, coming between the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice and six months later, Halloween, another satanic holiday.
Maia and Flora, Greece and Rome
Also connected with May Day is Maia, the ancient Greek fertility goddess after whom the month of May is named. In England, May Day represents the coming together of two pagan traditions: The worship of Maia, a Greek fertility goddess in the spring and the worship of a sea goddess, Maid Marian.
The ancient Romans, over 2,000 years ago, celebrated a 5 day long holiday called, “Floralia or the Festival of Flora,” on the 1st of May, honoring the goddess of flowers. Just like Beltane it was a fertility festival, were feasting, dancing and orgies took place.
May Day and its traditions and observances for environmentalist has its connections to Gia, Mother Earth.
Mary’s Day and Walpurgis Night
In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church “Christianized,” this pagan holiday by making it a celebration of the Virgin Mary in which statues of Mary would be decorated with flowers and May Baskets with baked good would be left on peoples door steps. Here again you have the allusion of cakes made to the Queen of Heaven (Jer. 7, 44).
In Germany, May Day took the form of Walpurgis Night, which was a celebration of Saint Walpurga, and 8th century Roman Catholic missionary. On this night bon-fires would be lit and as feasting, dancing and fertility rituals would take place.
It is quite disturbing to see how satan has counterfeited and substituted God’s Divinely Appointed Holy Days for his own perverted days of worship and has pasted them off in the modern day as innocent and fun celebrations of the seasons.
May Day stems from the Celtic and now Wiccan festival of Beltane, another form of Baal (sun) and Ishtar (fertility) worship. The Maypole is a phallic symbol, and the circling ribbons being braided round the pole round represents intercourse and conception. Religious orgies would also take place around ancient Maypoles.
May 1st is one of the eight days of the year sacred to Satan; it is a witch's sabbath. Some people believe that the Maypole was a spiritual vortex or gateway by which demons trapped in the earth could be released. Interestingly enough, All Saints Day, on November 1st. This day falls exactly six months after May Day, and is another witches' sabbath. May 1st is also called a cross-quarter day which is a day falling approximately halfway between a solstice and an equinox. Wiccans call the cross-quarter days, “the Greater Shabbats,” or the greater sabbaths. This is a cross-quarter day, coming between the Vernal Equinox and the Summer Solstice and six months later, Halloween, another satanic holiday.
Maia and Flora, Greece and Rome
Also connected with May Day is Maia, the ancient Greek fertility goddess after whom the month of May is named. In England, May Day represents the coming together of two pagan traditions: The worship of Maia, a Greek fertility goddess in the spring and the worship of a sea goddess, Maid Marian.
The ancient Romans, over 2,000 years ago, celebrated a 5 day long holiday called, “Floralia or the Festival of Flora,” on the 1st of May, honoring the goddess of flowers. Just like Beltane it was a fertility festival, were feasting, dancing and orgies took place.
May Day and its traditions and observances for environmentalist has its connections to Gia, Mother Earth.
Mary’s Day and Walpurgis Night
In the Middle Ages, the Catholic Church “Christianized,” this pagan holiday by making it a celebration of the Virgin Mary in which statues of Mary would be decorated with flowers and May Baskets with baked good would be left on peoples door steps. Here again you have the allusion of cakes made to the Queen of Heaven (Jer. 7, 44).
In Germany, May Day took the form of Walpurgis Night, which was a celebration of Saint Walpurga, and 8th century Roman Catholic missionary. On this night bon-fires would be lit and as feasting, dancing and fertility rituals would take place.
It is quite disturbing to see how satan has counterfeited and substituted God’s Divinely Appointed Holy Days for his own perverted days of worship and has pasted them off in the modern day as innocent and fun celebrations of the seasons.