Happy May Day

[sitonmyinterface]

When I was in elementary school, which was a private Christian school, we learned the maypole dance. It wasn't mentioned, of course, that the dance represented a pagan festival of fertility; the pole being the penis and the ring the vagina. I find it interesting and surprising we did this, looking back. It was a lot of fun, though.

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these traditions are strange. .

[beachglass]

and interesting.
I don't know a lot about religious practices or traditions, because I was raised in a non demonstrative household.
in every meaning of the word.

[ghostwire]

we had a maypole too, however i had no idea about its, um, bodily representations... :)

[october_rain]

I always found it fascinating how anti-pagan some proponents of Christianity are, yet are completely oblivious to how many Christian rituals/practices were actually stolen from pagan ones. Even holidays too.

[sitonmyinterface]

Exactly, haha!