Beltane! Beltane!
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008Tomorrow, May 1, is Mayday (also known as Beltane). I was informed by one of the students who attend our Christian school that a relative of hers, who attends public school in this area, was going to participate in a school sponsored celebration and dance. “Will she be dancing around a maypole?” I asked. “Yes,” was her reply.
There are those who see this as a harmless activity that is steeped in tradition and is used to build a sense of community and a link with our historic past. But is there more to it than that?
Consider, as we always must do, what the Bible says in the following verses.
(Exodus 23:2) “Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:”
(Deuteronomy 12:30) “Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.”
(2 Kings 17:15) “And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the LORD had charged them, that they should not do like them.”
(Jeremiah 10:2) “Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them.”
These verses are clear in that we are not to mimic or otherwise participate in pagan religious practices. This is what Mayday (Beltane) is. Although it comes to us from Germanic, Scandinavian, and English traditions, its roots go all the way back to ancient Babel is related to the Secret of all ages.
From wikipedia we find the following, concerning Mayday, the maypole, the mayqueen, etc.
Maypole dancing is a form of folk dance from western Europe, especially England, Sweden and Germany, with two distinctive traditions. In the most widespread, dancers perform circle dances around a tall pole which is decorated with garlands, painted stripes, flowers, flags and other emblems. In the second, dancers dance in a circle each holding a coloured ribbon attached to a much smaller pole; the ribbons are intertwined and plaited either on to the pole itself or into a web around the pole. The dancers may then retrace their steps exactly in order to unravel the ribbons.
The first kind of maypole dancing is probably extremely ancient and is thought by some to have Germanic pagan fertility symbolism….Potential other meanings include symbolism relating to the Yggdrasil, a symbolic axis linking the underworld, the world of the living, the heavensThor’s Oak, Adam of Bremen’s account of Sacred groves and the Irminsul.[citation needed] and numerous other realms. Also likely related, reverence for sacred trees can be found in surviving accounts of Germanic tribes…
The present day tradition of maypoles coincides geographically with the area of influence of the Germanic mythos.
The assertion of phallic symbolism in relation to Maypoles reflects its current semiotic values: celebration, community, youthfulness and the arrival of summer.
From the book Beltane: Springtime Rituals, Lore & Celebration by Raven Grimassi we find the following.
The Maypole is the symbol of the spirit of vegetation returning and renewing its life with the approach of summer. Traditionally the Maypole was topped with a wreath that symbolized the fertile power of Nature…
Celebrants encircled the pole and danced in a symbolic weaving of human life with the life of Nature itself.
The figure of the May Queen is traceable to the worship of the Roman goddess Flora whose rites were celebrated on May 1.
The symbolism is obvious once you understand the secret. The Maypole itself is a phallic symbol, a symbol that represents the male. The wreath mounted at the top is a symbol representing the female. Consider the following verses in the light of this.
(Jeremiah 2:27) “Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.” (a stock is a wooden pole, from where we get the word ’stick’)
(Jeremiah 3:9) “And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.”
The interweaving male and female dancers represent the whoredoms and adultery spoken of by Jeremiah. It is also a representation of the Secret - the Sons of God mingling with the Daughters of Men (Genesis 6) which brings us to the next symbol, that of spiraling ribbons used in this ceremony. Compare the following images.
It should be obvious to anyone that symbols relating to fertility, life, renewal, nature, etc. would be linked in some way to the ultimate symbol of life itself. DNA. Hence, another way of visualizing the Secret, “they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men.” (Daniel 2) Unaware, the celebrants of Mayday festivities are showing the secret plan to mingle the DNA of mankind with that of the fallen angels of Daniels 4th kingdom. This is the truth behind Mayday, and also reveals for us the truth behind “the Mayqueen” reference in Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven (the stairway to heaven is DNA!)
It also points us to a more diabolical, historical event. Mayday is May 1. This is the day when a jesuit priest by the name of Adam Weishaupt formed a branch of freemasonry known as The Order of Perfectabilists or The Illuminati in 1776, the date depicted on the back of our $1 bill.
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