Today is the May Day bank holiday in the UK. So we get an extra day off and a long weekend. I’m grateful for the extra time off and hope to recharge my batteries.
In many small villages and towns, a May Day Festival is held, where the Green Man leads a procession through the streets. It is a celebration of the beginning of summer, and the Green Man symbolises rebirth, nature, and the cycle of spring. He is often considered a pagan fertility spirit.
The procession typically ends at the village green where you could find Morris dancing, dancing around a Maypole and culminating in the crowning of a May Queen.
In Cockaigne, we celebrate May Day with the rest of the country. As you might expect, there are a few differences. People still dance around a Maypole, except they are naked. We all enjoy watching the naked young men dancing around the Maypole with their cocks flopping around.
The Green Man is a true fertility spirit and will help anyone who asks. He’s not afraid to splash his fertility spirit on men and women alike.
The day ends with the crowning of the Cockaigne May King.
The May King is chosen because he is pure and unsullied with a yearning to lose his virginity. He chooses his companions to assist him, and one is chosen to have the honour of deflowering the May King in front of the entire village.
Cockaigne has taken the quaint May Day festivities and created its own version. Please enjoy the festivities, and why not take off your clothes, grab a ribbon, and dance around the Maypole? Perhaps Cockaigne’s Green man will catch your eye.
Hope you had a good May Day.
My only question about Cockaigne’s May Day celebration is other than Kurt are there any male virgins in the city?
Cockaigne always has room for a shy virgin!
beautiful pics, David, very mythic (in a dream-like Green-Man-style way.) xx