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		<title>Caption This!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post includes a video which talks about captioning and its importance to the Deaf Community. Scroll down to watch this video, which is captioned to allow for Equal Communication Access to all of  Deaf Pagan Crossroads readers. Watch this video, give it some serious thought, and then share this link with all of your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deafpagancrossroads.com&#038;blog=542306&#038;post=5244&#038;subd=ocean1025&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing the Maypole &#8211; A History of Beltane/May Day, part three</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 18:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No discussion of May Day or Beltaine would be complete without mentioning one of the iconic symbols of the day – the maypole. There is no solid information to tell us exactly where or when the maypole originated. The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, who lived in the 1600’s, suggested that it dated back to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deafpagancrossroads.com&#038;blog=542306&#038;post=5225&#038;subd=ocean1025&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gather Your Blossoms &#8211; A History of Beltaine/May Day, part two</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our discussion of Beltaine and May Day festivities up to this point have focused on the supernatural danger of the day and the need for fire rituals to ward it off. Let us now focus on the more celebratory rituals that ushered in the Summer season. Around the year 1240 a bishop in England complained [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deafpagancrossroads.com&#038;blog=542306&#038;post=5210&#038;subd=ocean1025&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaping Over the Bonfire &#8211; A History of Beltaine/May Day, part one</title>
		<link>http://deafpagancrossroads.com/2012/04/29/a-history-of-beltaine-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order for us to fully understand and appreciate the celebrations of May Day, it becomes necessary to travel to different countries and observe both the old customs of ancient civilizations, and the modern-day reinterpretations of such customs by the various groups of today. To better grasp the overall concept of May Day; its importance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deafpagancrossroads.com&#038;blog=542306&#038;post=5193&#038;subd=ocean1025&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[March is Women&#8217;s History Month, and March 8th is celebrated as International Women&#8217;s Day all around the world &#8211; a day when we should honor the women in our lives, and the women who have made contributions to our society. Today I received an email from a good friend of mine in North Carolina talking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deafpagancrossroads.com&#038;blog=542306&#038;post=5180&#038;subd=ocean1025&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagine A Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of International Women&#8217;s Day&#8230;I am reposting this.  Imagine A Woman by Patricia Lynn Reilly Imagine a woman who believes it is right and good she is a woman. A woman who honors her experiences and tells her stories. Who refuses to carry the sins of others within her body and life. Imagine a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deafpagancrossroads.com&#038;blog=542306&#038;post=5178&#038;subd=ocean1025&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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