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Beltane
Beltane Bel"tane, n. [Gael. bealltainn, bealltuinn.]
1. The first day of May (Old Style).
The quarter-days anciently in Scotland were
Hallowmas, Candlemas, Beltane, and Lammas. --New
English Dict.
2. A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May,
in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It
still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland
and Ireland.
Meaning of Beltane from wikipedia
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Bealtaine (anglicised as '
Beltane') (/ˈbɛl.teɪn/;
Irish pronunciation: [ˈbʲal̪ˠt̪ˠəʲnə],
approximately /ˈb(j)ɒltɪnə/ B(Y)OL-tin-ə) is the
Gaelic May Day...
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Beltane Fire
Festival is an
annual parti****tory arts
event and ritual, held on 30
April on
Calton Hill in Edinburgh. The
modern Beltane Fire Festival...
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Beltane School was an
independent school in Wimbledon,
London and
later Melksham, Wiltshire,
founded in 1934 and
closed in 1941.
Beltane was one of the...
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midpoints between them. The four
Celtic festivals were
known to the
Gaels as
Beltane (1 May),
Lughnasadh (1 August),
Samhain (1 November), and
Imbolc (1 February)...
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Sports Centre,
before moving into the
nearby Beltane Park for the
beginning of the 2011–12 season.[2] The
Beltane, as it is
known locally, is
likely to be...
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include Walpurgis Night in
central and
northern Europe, the
Gaelic festival Beltane, the
Welsh festival Calan Mai, and May
devotions to the
Blessed Virgin...
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people to
attend an
annual event in
celebration of the
Gaelic festival of
Beltane.
Extensive quarrying has
impacted much of the monument's
setting to the...
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several times. The
depression eventually became Tropical Storm Beltane, and
lasted 17 days.
Beltane caused flooding across Madagascar due to
heavy rainfall,...
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thousands of
people from all over the world. On the
night of 30
April the
Beltane Fire
Festival takes place on
Calton Hill,
involving a
procession followed...
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National Awakening Day (Bulgaria)
Samhain in the
Northern Hemisphere and
Beltane in the
Southern Hemisphere,
celebrations start at
sunset of
October 31...
