Beltane
Beltane Fire Society casts first female Green Man
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The Beltane Fire Festival of Edinburgh, Scotland, hosts its celebration virtually today – and features, for the first time, a woman performer in the role of the Green Man.
Featured
Guest Column: Cernunnos Rising
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In this personal essay, guest columnist Tudorbeth goes looking for Cernunnos in the streets of London.
Paganism
Quick Notes: Pagan Councils, Fundamentalism Clarifications, and The Green Man
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Just a few quick notes to start off your Monday. A History of Pagan Councils in the United States: In my recent examination of the Pagan label, I pointed to Chas Clifton’s “Her Hidden Children” while examining how “Pagan” became the default term for our interconnected movement. In that process I also mentioned the early Pagan councils of the 1960s and 1970s, which were largely failures, but did lay ground for future cooperation and the creation of a “Pagan community.” For more depth on the topic of early Pagan councils and similar initiatives, I would point you to Aidan Kelly’s blog at Patheos which has been running a series on those early councils, and how they eventually led to the creation of the Covenant of the Goddess (COG). “The attempt to create an umbrella, church-like organization for Pagans was begun by Michael Kinghorn in Los Angeles in 1967.
Paganism
Unleashing an New, Independent, Wild Hunt!
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Though I’ve written thousands of posts for The Wild Hunt, I couldn’t help but feel a certain sense of excitement writing today’s. Not just because I’ve been away for over a week, but because this is the first post of a newly independent Wild Hunt. A Wild Hunt that, while maintaining many of the things you’ve grown to love about our site, will also see a number of changes. The first will be that The Wild Hunt is no longer a solo venture. I am proud to welcome two new writer/reporters who will be making regular contributions each month here at this site: Rynn Fox and Heather Greene (Miraselena).