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- From: adams@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Brynach ap Adda)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Fight the Funny-Mentals in Washington State
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.014851.25843@news.stolaf.edu>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 01:48:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov10.235306.9142@lclark.edu> <1992Nov11.090005.29476@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> <lg2mgcINNi21@news.bbn.com>
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- Organization: St. Olaf College; Northfield, MN
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- In article <lg2mgcINNi21@news.bbn.com> dhardin@bbn.com (Dawn Hardin) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov11.090005.29476@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com>, billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
- >>
- >> Get ready for it. In every state of the nation. Mabon and the OCA have
- > ^^^^^
- >
- >> vowed to have more measures on the ballots in 1994. He was not just
- >> talking about Oregon. Start getting your groups together now, you can
- >> bet that he is doing so.
- >
- >That name gives me a start whenever I see it. Has anyone else noticed
- >the irony of a person with this name giving us all such fits?
- >Are there any fundy ministers named "Beltaine"?
-
-
- In Welsh folklore, Mabon is not the name of a holiday as such (it is
- not clear whether Celtic peoples celebrated the solstices and equinoxes
- before contact with dominant Germanic cultures - most scholars think
- not) - but Mabon ap Modron is a god of youth and vitality, ready to
- take on challenges and endure hardship. His cult was popular in the
- north of Britain among the Romano-British soldiers who manned Hadrian's
- Wall - maybe they thought he might protect them from the Picts and Scots
- or at least ensure them a good afterlife if they died.
-
- Still ironic that this repressive, death-centered creep should bear
- the name of the Eternal Youth, though.
-
- >Dawn
-
- Brynach Brawdfran ap Adda (Sam Adams) adams@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu
-
- "I am the Wheel, I am the Turning..." - Brian Eno and John Cale
-