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Bua Beltane Boy - Tending a May Birth-Death-Day

When the summer is bursting through in all its fine greenery, and traditional May Day festival rites are kept to welcome in the luscious fertility of this time, I am keeping a lament, for this is the time that I gave birth to death instead of new life

pilgrimage, mythology, storytellling, death doulaSerena Constance2 May 2022May Day, Birth, death, Beltane, grief, death doula, utiseta, South Downs, Sussex, Irish myths, Poetry

A South Downs Utiseta – The Practice of Mound Sitting

The practice of Utiseta is an old Norse tradition. The wise women, the seers, would sit out on the burial mounds of their ancestors or that of a wise leader, to seek knowledge and to gain answers.