Talk:Maypole

message: Which (preferably contemporary) scholars advocate for this theory?  It is a theory of mine, as well, which I would like to investigate further.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.39.20.64 (talk) 19:19, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: May/ Summer Poles as an Axis Mundi

message: Proposed in 2011, so I'm doing it. I made sure the various external pages were still there and folded in any cited, live, and non-spam material.
 
User: Cryptosmith
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thread_title: Merging content from Maypole Dancing

message: Here is a quote to consider:
“May Day festivals probably stem from the rites practiced in honor of a Roman goddess, Maia, who was worshiped as the source of human and natural fertility. . . . [The] Maypole is believed by most scholars to be a survival of a phallic symbol formerly used in the spring rites for the goddess Maia.”—The New Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedia (1952), page 8294.
Additionally, it is reported that the ribbons were not added until the 19th century and involved intricate dancing styles and weaves that now seem to be forgotten. From my perspective the dances and maypoles appear to be linked to pagan fertility celebrations as are the rabbits and eggs of Easter. Using children in these celebrations adds another link to new growth also associated with fertility.
83.100.210.163 11:18, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Maia" & ribbons

message: Did John Ruskin really invent the ribbons?  These claims are always hard to ascertain because folklore by its nature isn't written down.--Jack Upland 03:03, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: John Ruskin

message: I've never even heard of a maypole being used in a school dance, neither in my high school, the one I used to go to, nor from any of my friends in different schools...and the picture is from 1910.  Can anyone produce documented cases of modern use of the maypole in the U.S. in this context?  If not, it may be a good idea to take that section down.
Mayday exercises and maypoles have been used in South Carolina Schools, especially the black schools since at least 1942.  Back then schools in South Carolina were segregated and the black schools used the mayday exercises to raise money to buy books for the students.  Students being tired of hand-me-down books from the white schools used the money to buy new books for the students.  I was a product of the maypole dancing from 1947 to 1955.  However after I went on to high school, I learned that the maypole dancing was a fertility dance in the early spring to bring in good crops for the farmers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.61.213.66 (talk) 15:16, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Use in secondary and high schools

message: The article Maypole dance contains nothing of significance that is not discussed here. (talk) 12:17, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge discussion

message: This section is poorly written. There is no need to insert Ronald Huttons comments all over the place as it's still an ongoing debate. Put his studies in a separate paragraph. It's especially suspicious that his name was introduced by one editor only. Additionally his comments refer to British paganism only. 93.212.51.10 (talk) 11:56, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Hutton is hardly an expert on Germanic paganism—which he awkwardly brushes here and there—and the dependence upon him throughout the article is absolutely ridiculous. :bloodofox: (talk) 20:08, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symbolism and Ronald Hutton 

message: Maypoles (Majka in Czech) are also erected in the Czech Republic, on the evening April 30th, and this habit is associated with various folk traditions, especially with guarding the Majka overnight, drinking beer, folk dances (polka etc.). The habit is especially common in South Bohemia, where Majka stands in many villages over the entire year and is replaced by a new one just on April 30th. Majka in CZ is usually a spruce where all lateral branches except of the top are removed, as well as the bark, and the tree is decorated by colourful ribbons and one wreath. In many villages the habit is also associated with Beltaine fires and the celebration of Walpurgis night (see also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgis_Night)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.176.141.38 (talk) 20:43, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maypole in the Czech Republic 

message: I'm American, and I've never heard of anyone having a maypole here.  The article that's cited is from only *one* location where they had one for ten years.  No one else knew what it was, so their website explains it.  They no longer even have this festival.  How this could lead to someone saying that we have maypoles at our schools and festivals, I don't know.  A Renaissance festival is a place to celebrate European traditions, not American ones, so the picture of a maypole at a Renn Faire doesn't demonstrate in any way that Americans have maypoles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.228.222 (talk) 01:30, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maypoles in the US 

message: Hi,
First of all I have not edited this article ever even anonymously. I wanted to source brief content from this article to other article regarding Pole worship. But another User:CorbieVreccan
has informed that he has got some objection with the content, basically content of this article needs to be debated in this article. I call upon   User:CorbieVreccan to detail his objections here and request other users to form a consenus and improve this article. 
While considerable content of this article seems to have been written anonymously  (Page information uptill now of this article  shows Total number of distinct authors352, Total number of edits 612 number of page watchers are 62 out of that 10 vesited recently so article is of intrest to enough editors then why not have a healthy discussion)   just I will request other users who have already participated in this article development like User:Fizzypopman User:Jonathan de Boyne Pollard User:Rjencylopedia  and others to help address concerns of User:CorbieVreccan 
Thanks and regards
Mahitgar (talk) 07:46, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerns of  User:CorbieVreccan 

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message: Ancient Hungarians were definitely not Germans and lived thousands of kilometres east from the alleged source of this traditon (Rhineland) and used maytrees centuries before germans, but we are used to being neglected while searching for roots of traditions of the western folks. Our "barbarian" ancestors brought horses, carriages, even the underwear to Europe,  and I'm not surprised this article doesn't even mention the Hungarian may-tree. Check the hungarian article for details, but to summarize the essence of it: ancient Hungarians used some wonderfully constructed mobile-yurts that had an important element: the "god-tree", which actually was the main holding pole at the center of the yurt, about 4,5 meters high. It's important part was the "karim", which was a horizontal woodden circle near the top - it functioned as a holder for the strings that were attached to the "walls" of the yurt that was hung on it. When a young boy reached manhood, his first thing to do was to show he is able to establish a new family and to build his own yurt, so he went into a forest and cut his own "god-tree". He often carved some traditional motifs into it. The god-tree couldn't be used right then, it needed to cut out before Spring and needed to let it get dried until Autumn when it could be used, so the young lads had these trees around their yurts, waiting to be used. When a young lad had a god-tree he could choose a wife for himself, he took his friends and during nighttime they dug the pole in front of his sweetheart's family yurt - signalling he is an able man to marry the girl. They decorated the pole with gifts to the girl. The girl was supposed to receive the maytree by lighting a candle and servicing drinks to the guys. Zoltan_Bereczki (talk) 20:59, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  One possible origin of Maypoles 

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