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First-person POV of bare feet in a medieval meadow with a traditional ribbon-wrapped Maypole and a distant Beltane bonfire at dusk. How to Say It (Without Tripping) Before we dive into the dirt, let’s talk about the name. Beltane is usually pronounced BELL-tane, but if you want to get fancy with the Gaelic roots, it’s closer to B’YAL-tinn-uh. Either way, it means "Bright Fire," and it’s the official "Welcome to Summer" party of the pagan world. "A thousand years of tradition,