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[rajuninamasblog]

यदि माँ को खुश करने के लिए कोई बच्चा व्रत, उपवास रखकर दिन भर भूखा रहे तो क्या मां खुश हो सकती है? इसका सीधा जवाब है कि इससे माँ और अधिक दुःखी होगी।

तो नवरात्रि के उपलक्ष्य पर माता दुर्गा को खुश करने का सही मार्ग जानने के लिए पढ़िये अनमोल पुस्तक ज्ञान गंगा।

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[voorhees1138]

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[its-gonna-be-may]

Please, whatever god is out there save me from school.

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[thepawkityblog]

oh my fucking god the server is defending gronky again. jesus fuck

#mayposts #its just. aughhh man we all know what gronky did #its so fucked up #// #unreality #first ic post. Am i going to hell

[mrmcflowers]

New Chapter out tomorrow!

I would post it tomight (I ust finished it) but I have to edit it and I am /way/ too fucking tired tbh!!! There is a small chance hat my brain will not let me sleep and I maypost it tonight but like!! Expect it tomorrow!

The Fanfic is called Never getting rid of me on AO3. already has two chapters if anyone is interested

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[vale-priestess]

❀ MAYPOST ❀

Below is an article of mine I’ve shared before, about how Wiccans (especially those outside of the UK) have a skewed perception of May Day that does not necessarily reflect surviving traditions. This was long before the TERFs really started to take hold over the “nature-based” demographics; many of these harmless folk customs would be outlawed if they had the power to do so. Anyway, here it is in full, because nobody wants to click through a bunch of links. (archived here)  ❀ Some time ago, I began to question what I've generally been told about British folk traditions. May Day, for example. I was so busy re-educating myself about folk festivals in Gaelic cultures, that I never stopped to question what I knew about British ones. My following visit to Wikipedia was illuminating.

Here are some things I was surprised to learn.

1. May Day is feminine and twee by today's standards.

At a neopagan festival, you're likely to encounter a maypole, and any dancing that occurs will be performed in the weaving of the ribbons around it. In England, there's a lot more dancing. Elaborately choreographed dancing. Young and old folks dancing. With bells. And ribbons. And wands. And little hankies. And flowers. Flowers on hats. Men's hats. 

These Cotswold dancers, for example. Or these dancers at Oxford Circus. As you can see from some of the comments, the average citizen tends to find these displays uncool and annoying. Failing to combat this attitude is a contingent of "goths and pagans" on a mission to butch the whole thing up with black clothing, phallic pantomime, and seasonally inappropriate hats - much to the disapproval of traditionalists (and people who can see.) 

Happily, morris isn't restricted to the month of May. They are also seen on other holidays, such as St George's Day and Pentecost. On Plough Monday, dancers in East Anglia gather in “molly teams,” made up of jolly, burly types dressed like little girls. 

Royal Liberty Morris dancers and “molly”

2. The May Queen can be a little girl.

Wiccan and neopagan literature tends to emphasize the idea of May Day as a marriage rite between the “king” and “queen” of spring. But that doesn’t necessarily describe the festivals that have survived to the present day. In many townships, the sole representative of springtime is the May Queen: a young girl chosen from among local students in their pre-to-mid-teens. 

She is crowned before her community and a procession is made to welcome her rule. 

She may have a wide cast of characters and troops to accompany her, including musicians, dancers and attendants. One of the longest running May Day fairs is held each year in Hayfield, Derbyshire, where there are many roles and silly costumes donned by children and adults. 

Hayfield May Queen attended by girls dressed as beefeaters.

There is precedent for a May King, however, to be found in some Early Modern sources. Here's one mention of a "Lord of May" from the diary of Henry Machyn, in 1557: "On the 30th day of May was a jolly May-game in Fenchurch Street (London) with drums and guns and pikes, The Nine Worthies did ride; and they all had speeches, and the morris dance and sultan and an elephant with a castle and the sultan and young moors with shields and arrows, and the lord and lady of the May." These military characters may reflect the Spanish origins of morris dance, where battles were reenacted to commemorate historical conflicts with Morocco.

Additionally, in Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, the author tells us that "in the comedy called The Knight of The Burning Pestle, written by Beaumont and Fletcher in 1611, a citizen, addressing himself to the other actors, says, 'Let Ralph come out on May-day in the morning, and speak upon a conduit, with all his scarfs about him, and his feathers, and his rings, and his knacks, as Lord of the May.' His request is complied with, and Ralph appears upon the stage in the assumed character, where he makes his speech, beginning in this manner: With gilded staff and crossed scarf the May Lord here I stand." Strutt also notes the appearance of Robin Hood appearing in May Day performances, accompanied by "a female, or rather, perhaps, a man habited like a female, called the Maid Marian, his faithful mistress." 

From this, we see that...

3. The May Queen can be a drag performer.

In the late 1880s, chimney-sweeps and other guild-workers had developed their own styles of celebration. For them, the "Lady of the May" was typically played by a man, for comedic effect. She carried a ladle and was dressed like a flirty cook, while the "Lord of the May" was dressed as an admiral, or a gentleman in a powdered wig. I find this example interesting, not just for its urban setting, but for the satirical quality of the characters involved. Also, these games came about after morris traditions had lain dormant in the countryside for some time.

Some regions have processions led only by Robin Hood and Maid Marian. Interestingly, the Maid Marian was the sole focus of these pageants for centuries before the Robin Hood mythos came into being, and continued to preside over the festivities long after he had faded from popularity.

Another one of the oldest continuing May Day processions is the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance, dating back to the 11th century. Here, Maid Marian has no consort. Then, as now, she was played by a young man. 

The Horn Dancers consist of the horn bearers, the Maid Marian, the Fool, a boy to keep time on triangle, and a boy with a bow and arrow. In recent years, girls have also been allowed to participate in the boys’ roles.

4. The May Queen can be a doll.

This is an interesting practice that bears a close resemblance to the Gaelic custom of making the Brideog doll on Imbolc. The Oxford Dictionary of English Folklore tells us:

The most widespread and best known May Day activity in the 19th and early 20th centuries was the children's garland custom. In essence, this involved groups of children visiting houses in their community showing a garland, singing a song, and collecting money. [...] A regular, but not ubiquitous, feature was to place a dressed and decorated doll (sometimes more than one) in the centre of the garland, or in front of it. She was usually called something like Her Lady, or The Queen, and treated with great respect. Commentators assume she represented the Virgin Mary. In some places, it was the doll which was given precedence, rather than the garland, transported in a decorated box or basket... 

In this write-up from a UK newspaper, we're told:

There has been much debate about what the May Doll represents. Some believed it was the Virgin Mary, to whom the month was dedicated, others Flora or the May Queen. One of a group of young girls told a folklorist in Bampton, Oxfordshire in the 1970s that their doll represented a goddess whilst another in the group said it was Minerva! In Edlesborough, Buckinghamshire, two dolls, one smaller than the other, were carried in a covered decorated chair to resemble the Virgin and Child. 

It also notes that in some counties, this doll was called "the Maulkin." Bringing this all back around, these etymology geeks claim that "maulkin" or "malkin" was once a common term for the young man dressed as the lady in May Day dances and parades. Guess playing dress-up was always the point.

What strikes me the most after learning all of this? Overall, traditional May Day festivities seem...almost diametrically opposed to the image presented to me by the pagan community, which was all about reinforcing strict gender roles. On the American side at least, I think a lot of pagan men would find the absence of a May King intolerable, and the presence of a drag queen unthinkable. In their minds, this can't be what their ancestors intended. If they can invent their own May Day to be more heavy metal, then they will do just that. 

I am not here to say that old customs are good and new ones are bad. Many of the traditions described above were revived in the 1900s, by new communities who did new things with it. There were also debates in the mid-20th century, around whether women should be allowed to participate in May dancing, despite the fact that women were evidently involved both in its history and preservation. So it’s not as if the legacy of May Day is totally free of sexism or revisionism. What I'm here to say is this: Sometimes, when a person claims to be practicing an ancient faith that's been passed down secretly through the country-ways of the common-folk, you have to ask yourself: what is it they're really advocating? Tradition? Clearly, tradition has no problem with unmarried girls or cross-dressing men. Nature veneration? Somehow, the seasons kept turning through all this. If someone is telling you a story about what your forebears practiced, believed, or valued - can you be sure they’re telling the truth? To the best of their ability? It's important to be sure, I think, if we sincerely want to honor the past.

❀

Extras:

Jack-In-The-Green Revisited

Quest For the Queens is a collection of BBC footage of May Day festivities in New Westminster, from the 1930s onward.

The Hayfield May Festival in 2011.

Nigel Pennick with a May garland and doll, plus a song on accordion.

#may day #beltane #wicca #I tried to post this earlier in the day #but I started disassociating really badly #I definitely don't have religious trauma #from the happy hippie religion #nope none at all #why is the last emoji so huge

[lorekeeper-backset]

I don't even have commentary anymore I'm just Mayposting.

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[flishthedragon]

my swim class is a lawless place:

we have 2 exchange students and they are both Wonderful (one is the mom friend and the other is the weird cousin),

the class is in a separate building and kids keep getting locked out

the disabled stall is not, in fact, disabled friendly and instead as two toilets

there is just straight up an entire mirror missing

we are not allowed to use lockers for some reason

fridays are freedays and i once got full credit for dipping my hand in the water for 5 seconds because it said i had to be in the water but it didn't say how much or how long

one kid told us how he had caught this couple banging in the woods and the couple joined in on the conversation

same couple have matching necklaces. that are made of lead.

not a single straight

water polo is the breeding ground for chaos

so many quotes (maypost later idk)

#school #queer #lgbtq #funny #anyways im failing the class #swim kids are the gym equivalent of theater kids. in this essay i will

[maythray]

[ID: A digital doodle of two figures. One figure, shaped like a human, has a hand on their hip and says, “haha well at least you’re not like THAT”. The other figure is a creature with two antennas. They have a smug expression on their face. The text underneath reads in parentheses, “(is exactly like that)” / END ID]

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[ask-francois-dubois]

ooc: sorry for using this blog to lovepost about May it's because i love maycois and I love love and i love liveposting and because ive been doing liveposting lately cause i have a cool freind now and hes cool he hasa bblog here btw so go follow ask-juju-capulet and also vicariousscrolling anyway yeah

[govindsingh123]

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आज से लगभग 510 वर्ष पूर्व कपड़ा बुनकर आजीविका चलाने वाले समर्थ कबीर परमेश्वर ने तीन दिन तक 18 लाख साधु संतों को मोहन भंडारे से तृप्त किया था।

इसी उपलक्ष्य में संत रामपाल जी महाराज के सानिध्य में 10 आश्रमों में विशाल धर्म भंडारे का आयोजन किया जायेगा, जिसमें आप सभी परिवार सहित सादर आमंत्रित हैं।

[its-gonna-be-may]

🌸You think she was serious about trying to rule the school? Cause that'd be kinda hot.

#pokeblogging #pkmn irl #irl pkmn #pokemon irl #mayposting

[thepawkityblog]

Gronky did nothing wrong, you're just a coward.

what the fuck do you mean do you not remember what happened to clowni

-may (she/her)

#mayposts #tw gronky mention #like ok. clowni was a fucking asshole #but that doesnt mean gronky was justified #thx for reminding me to check up on clowni btw #// #unreality #fake discourse

[sherbovania]

florence/may is back on the menu everybody

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[voorhees1138]

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