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Wiccans celebrate Beltane
By Maggie Koerth Kansan staff writer
In a wide field near Clinton Lake on Saturday night, 20 people held hands, circled a roaring bonfire and chanted songs to the god and goddess and the spirits they believe in.
The chanters were members of Wiccan Pagan Alliance. They were gathered to celebrate Beltane, a holiday that celebrates therebirth of Spring.
Beltane occurred May 1, but alliance members decided to have the celebration on a weekend to share in the ritual.
Beltane is a holiday with both ancient and modern roots. It has many meanings and many ways to celebrate.
Susan Haimes, an Olathe freshman at Johnson County Community College in Overland
Park, said Saturday was her first Beltaine, but that she knew a little about the stories behind it.
"It's a fertility holiday, for a lot of different religions it means the bringing back to life of the earth," she said.
Haimes said Wiccanism and different sects of Paganism celebrated Beltane in different ways and for different reasons. She said the members of the WPA had many different sects and traditions that they followed.
Haines said some Wiccans believed in Native American traditions and some were animists — a belief that inanimate objects and natural phenomena have spirits.
Andrew Israel, St. Louis, Mo., sophomore, said he too was new to Wiccan Pagan traditions.
"But it has heavy breeding overtones" he said.
Israel said that in ancient
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Participants burn carnations as gifts to the god and the goddess in celebration of Beltane. The holiday was derived from an ancient Gaelic-Celtic celebration to commemorate Spring.
Pagan ceremonies, Beltane celebrations often ended with ritual sex. But he said that practice had been pretty much abandoned in modern times and wasn't used by the WPA.
Sam Lane, Leavenworth junior, said he normally celebrated the holiday alone with a small ritual paying homage to the world and all the living creatures.
Brandon Cox, Lenexa junior, led the ceremony at Clinton Lake. He focused the ritual around the invocation of the spirits of air, wind, fire, water, north, south, east and west. He also called on the god and the goddess to bless and protect the group.
He said those spirits were called at nearly every ceremony to protect and bring energy to the circle. Other members of the WPA then shared their own chants, prayers and thoughts concerning spring and rebirth.
Before the circle broke up, he once again addressed the spirits — this time to let them know the ceremony had ended.
Cox said he liked to keep the ceremony informal when he ran it, in order to keep people relaxed and comfortable. Because of this, WPA members spoke out regularly during the ceremony and each student took turns writing his or her hopes for the coming year on slips of paper.
He said he hoped once people had heard about Beltane it would dispel myths about the holiday such as animal sacrifices, ritual sex and Wiccan Pagan traditions in general.
After the ceremony, WPA members danced around another Beltane symbol — the maypole.
Cox said the WPA's Beltane celebration was fairly typical of most ceremonies he'd been to.
"Never have there been offered sacrifices," he said. "Beltane is just a joyous ceremony that celebrates the beginning of everything new and nice and warm."
Contact Koerth at mkoerth@kansan.com. This story was edited by Sarah Warren.
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