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“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy” - Henry Ward Beecher
Midsummer or the Summer Solstice is the most powerful day of the year for the Sun God. Because this Sabbat glorifies the Sun God and the Sun, fire plays a very prominent role in this festival. The element of Fire is the most easily seen and immediately felt element of transformation. It can burn, consume, cook, shed light or purify and balefires still figure prominently at modern Midsummer rites. - http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk
At Midsummer, the Sun God has reached the moment of his greatest strength.
I imagine it to be a big party at Woodland Realm, after all, the Elvenking is the Sun for his people. @bellevox
Still I’m pinned under the weight Of what I believed would keep me safe. So show me where my armor ends, Show me where my skin begins. Like a final puzzle piece It all makes perfect sense to me… The heaviness that I hold in my heart belongs to gravity. The heaviness that I hold in my heart’s been crushing me.
The May festivals were popular throughout pagan Europe. The celebration of fertility and fire was common to the various religions. The Nordics celebrated two gods in the rites of fertility: Thor and Freyr, the latter being, not infrequently represented by a phallus. Freyr was the god who reigned in Alfheim, the land of the elves. The Nordic elves, on which Tolkien was based to create his elves, were gods, but closer to men than the gods who inhabited Asgard. The Ljosalfr, Elves of Light , were of transcendent beauty, admirable warriors and often visited humans and traded and engaged with them. There are age-old tales of elven villages hidden in the forests, whose entrance was franked only a few chosen men. the Prince and later King Högni was the son of an elf, who visited his mother and queen. The Swedish province of Bohuslän has a tradition that its inhabitants are descendants of elves, so they are more beautiful than most humans. Elves were essential figures in fertility cults, honored in the fertility of fields, animals, and women.
Thranduil, the Great Elvenking, beautifully portrayed in this art with an eventual companion elf, inspires the Beltane spirit of this Festival.
Send us during this week your work on the theme of the May Festival. Art, film, writing, edit, anything. Send us @dailythranduilproject and / or tag #ThranduilMayFestival , #MirkwoodMayFestival, #thranduilmayfest - Hail to the King!
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