This is beautiful. Thanks for the video. Blessed Be.

One year my daughter and I did this in middle of garden before planting. It was awesome. My garden was great too.

I remember doing something like this in music in elementary school. It was so fun!

a tradition i hope i can experience one day

Looks like I'm a bit late to this fest, but it's still May 1 here in the States. We danced the Maypole when I was a child in school. Thank you so much for posting this! Happy Beltaine 2012! :-)

Beautiful, we have our own Maypole in Idaho :x love to you in Glastonbury!

Beautiful!

So much fun ,,,,the closer to the bottom you get the crazier it becomes. Been so many years since I have done this....sure miss it

Happy Beltane!

So peaceful and beautiful :)

I wish I was there!! 5* Thanks for posting. Blessed Be

I will thank you... Peace...

Watching this, not only the dance itself but everyone else - the band, the girl sitting on the ground, and so on - I feel something familiar; something that touches my Pagan soul. I've only participated in the Maypole dance once, and it was not very good as it was not a pole but a ribbon at a local public circle. It was fun and chaotic, but this is magical.

My students enjoyed this!

WOW COOL

No tickets it was a comunity event and was free for all to join in

Great Maypole!!

that looks like so mush fun! i hope when im older i can go to one

This was at Bushey Coombe wasn't it? Heard it from my bedroom windows., then went to look but too late to capture this event! Nice one. Five stars. Mike.

I kind of getting it now. Since they are adults they have to cover almost all of the pole with the strings in representation of their life so much. And when little kids dance around the Maypole they only cover 1/9 of it. Interesting.

Hengwah.

@MooCowMama I guess I should say *if* the wreath reaches the bottom... poor Goddess didn't get hers this time :(

looks so fun!!! but it seems like it takes forever to finish too :)

Its not in a state, it's a town in England. In fact i live right next to it ^^

Really, Jet65.....the ancient Britons...BEHAVED....! lol :O

DID they do the book of names and knot tying ceremonies too? the old promenade? 13 year olds could pledge to one another and 16 year olds could marry. was the old tradition wasn't it I can't remember? has it changed since reformationism?

i actually watch the whole 937 min.

@Nyghtshade409 where are you located? why is it not allowed?

I also want so ((

can someone tell me the proper colors for maypole just needing to know thanks and blessed be

What is Beltane?

@Welliscah dont feel bad i live in florida its mail Scientologist and Catholic and Protestant but there is Pagans here but none thats near me ;(

@Nyghtshade409 wow! for your sake, I really hope you'll get to 'break out' soon!

Glastonbury........ In what state? O.o sorry, I'm horrible at geography.

I have some kind of horrific memory from practicing the maypole dance from when I was about 6. I get filled with terror just watching this or thinking about maypoles.. I think I need some regression hypnosis to figure out what it is. I must have blocked it from my memories, or Im remembering something from a former life.

i liked the maypole dance, although I know as a Christian that it's a pagan tradition. The whooping freaked me out a little though. But to each his own! :c)

oww *ww*

Why do "Pagans" need to dress like they bought their clothes at a Renaissance fair? Hehe

TOSSERS