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The Beltane Ritual*

Hardly any direct written sources have survived for Celtic mythology in prehistoric and ancient times; in pre-Christian times, Celtic mythology was passed on almost exclusively through oral tradition. Just as this ritual is whispered into the ears of every generation by myself.

hound of Belinus

The etymology of Belenus as the "god of springs" (Celtic *Guelenos to Indo-European *guelH-; compare also Low High German "quellen") favours the interpretation of Belenus as a healing deity. Older research derived the name from the root *bhel- ("bright", "shining"). However, there is also a derivation from the Celtic word for the hallucinogenic henbane belenuntia, bellinuncium, bellenium. The fact that it is called apollinaris herba ("Apollo herb") in Latin also speaks in favour of the connection with henbane. The root *belenio- can still be found today in the Spanish beleño and in the Portuguese velenho (both meaning "henbane"). In the compound names Cunobelinus and Lugobelinos (Cymric Cynfelyn and Llywelyn respectively), the first part of the word is a metaphor for "warrior", the second can mean the henbane as a drug to increase combativeness, the former can also mean " hound of Belinus".

At a time when nature is in full bloom, the days are getting longer and the sun is getting stronger, the festival of the beginning of summer is celebrated on 30 April. This ritual shows you how!

Everything we need:

One or more carnelians

Candles or a fire bowl

Paganism music

Instructions:

Place your carnelian on the floor. If you have several stones available, lay them out in a circle as a stylised fire.

Light the candles at a safe distance from your stone circle and play some music.

Start to move and dance intuitively to the music. Find your natural rhythm and release all tension from your body as you move.

Shake, sing or laugh out loud and surrender to your dance with every fibre.

Visualise the fiery power rising from your carnelians. Like a bonfire, they form the centre of your dance, giving you strength and energy during your ritual.

Now formulate your wishes for the coming early summer.

Say them out loud and jump over the carnelians on the floor to activate their power for your goals.

Gradually calm down again and take the feeling of joie de vivre and motivation with you.

We have only published the slimmed-down version of the ritual here. Of course, you need a huge May fire, lots of naked people and what can I say? Last time I was married to three witches to celebrate fertility. Mead and wine were also part of the whole thing, plus we all felt the power of the big stag in our loins.

But that's all fiction, or did we experience it?

Whoever believes it will be saved and whoever does not will not go to hell

*If you perform the ritual, you do so at your own risk and responsibility.

The Fall of Man, oil painting by Hendrick Goltzius (1616) and headdog 2024

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis de Sade

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

Marquis de Sade

One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush.

Marquis de Sade

Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.

Marquis de Sade

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Art is in the eye of the beholder, art can do everything and should do nothing!

The creative act is a journey with or without a travel guide.

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Do you have to understand it?

What does it want to tell me?

Does it say anything at all?

Is it perhaps political?

Or is it just the artist's depiction of a reality?

Is it the real life or the inner view of artistic creation?

Is it kitschy or not?

What if it is serious art?

What is serious art?

Is art just an investment for people who don't know what to do with their money?

Is art abuse also art?

My motto is just do it because it has to come out of you,

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Art history will show you the rest, smile!

There are three types of artists:

Art three are the artists who become famous during their lifetime.

Art two are the artists who become famous after their death.

Type three are the artists who are never discovered because the executor and his heirs think it's all rubbish.

@scopophilic1997 For those who persevere, mod

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Let them contemptuously call us snowflakes because they have unfortunately not understood that snowflakes become a thick layer of snow that can cover the world of darkness and even make it disappear into eternal ice.

Best wishes from the snowflakes ❄️

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From the New England states in the north-east of the USA, including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts, we keep receiving reports and pictures of snowstorms that bring all traffic to a standstill. The high-tech world is literally stuck in → snow. These catastrophic snowstorms are also known as → blizzards. In addition to snow, they bring icy → wind, the dreaded freezing rain and permafrost. In the north and north-east of the USA, heavy snowstorms rage almost regularly. These blizzards are usually preceded by mild weather. They are caused by strong cold air intrusions from the north and north-west at the rear of low-pressure areas. The icy winter storms are heralded by a slow drop in air pressure and rapidly falling temperatures. The wind reaches gale force with wind speeds of between 60 and 75 km/h.

Education helps and the values that brought about the French Revolution are non-negotiable.

Well, that brings us back to education, which values and what kind of French revolution?

It is astonishing that in the entire history of mankind, knowledge has always been subordinated to faith only to ensure that humanity is not the goal for the seizure of power and the abuse of power by individuals.

So what is the highest good that mankind possesses?

It is probably not wisdom!

There are so many variations of us who some persist and others fade away.

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@craveher2 If you don't like it, we'll delete it immediately, we were on a abyss once and turned round and went in a different direction.

I’m hitting the point where I think I just don’t love life. I feel like I’m waking up every day just to clean for my animals and nothing ever happens. Too poor to afford a vacation, which is whatever because I grew up poor and the most we did was go camping. I hate how I look, how I sound, every time I shower I look at myself and break down. I’m forced to eat and take pills so that my temper is easier for those around me. I haven’t had sex in ages because my partners depression meds make it hard and I can’t complain about it because it’s not his fault at all but I feel so unattractive in his eyes. I literally just wait for the day to be over every single day. And everyone thinks I’m going well because I’m keeping the apartment clean and at a “healthy” weight. I’m so fucking sick of hearing about my weight. I’m so sick of life.