Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

flowers was known as ‘bringing in the May’), choosing a Queen of the May, and erecting and dancing around a maypole. It was the maypole, with its phallic and pagan connotations, that brought May Day into disrepute among the 17th century Puritans. In both Old and New England the custom of dancing the maypole was outlawed by the religious authorities.”

Another author notes: “The May pole was formerly a huge phallus decked with flowers and brightly colored ribbons and set upright in an open area, around which the young people joyously danced at the return of the mating season. This typified the rejoicing of the return of spring, with its fructifying powers, after the earth had awakened