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Beltane Fire Festival Calton Hill - 30 April 2007 |
White Warrior Women
The White Warrior Women represent Truth, Law & Order.
They are confronting the red men as the procession reaches the end of its journey around Calton Hill
© peter.stubbs@edinphoto.org.uk Photograph taken: April 30, 2007; 11.07pm
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The White Warrior Women |
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As the procession approaches the end of its circuit of Calton Hill, it is ambushed by the Red Men, spirits from the underworld, symbolising chaos, mischief and lust. The White Warrior women, five of whom were played by men in 2007, overcome the Red Men (and women), and the procession proceeds to centre of the hill where the Horned God is ritually killed, then is resurrected as the Green Man, so marking the official beginning of Summer. |
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Beltane Fire Festival |
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