Happy Summer Solstice everyone!

[BalticBeauty]

Not counting the Baltics, I know it is celebrated in Eastern Europe and Scandinavia.
Feel free to post if you celebrate, and how.
http://www.entergauja.com/userfiles/images/galery/news-events/events/summer-solstice-in-turaida/141751151386.jpg

 

[pollynova]

It's too hot.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Happy Summer Solstice!

Now let me show you the dance of my people.

http://i745.photobucket.com/albums/xx97/JML9999/Animated_Bugs_Bunny_Dancing_1.gif

http://i.imgur.com/jZ5J5fW.gif

http://media.tumblr.com/657ec8e4137fac2e7abb61f5971b26e6/tumblr_inline_nm5xebJpJ21rna76x.gif

http://38.media.tumblr.com/241e505613fcdccb2a309f73d2cd9566/tumblr_ncidwzlSkm1sgl0ajo1_500.gif

http://38.media.tumblr.com/04be8d85ea5e54e835b56ad21a642a9a/tumblr_n0do6uhUrv1t0874bo1_r1_400.gif

http://31.media.tumblr.com/70f983a9005948322cd046244f6cab6b/tumblr_n97j40R4YY1r7r1l7o1_500.gif

http://38.media.tumblr.com/53549455ebf05528931824e0d4dbab21/tumblr_nszwfzbYJW1qlp4x9o1_500.gif

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5xo9h5X3E1qgfdhto1_500.gif

http://i.imgur.com/ZTrZ38U.gif

http://1.media.collegehumor.cvcdn.com/58/92/998c2968db384a1d740edb0e6b4a7dc6-the-faces-people-make-when-dancing-to-skrillex.gif

 

[BalticBeauty]

Now let me show you the dance of my people.

In Latvia it is an official holiday and a day off. People head to countryside and celebrate the night 23-24 June, staying awake, rather having a barbeque than following any traditional rites, though there are such.. like, couples of young girls and boys go to forest in the night to search for a fern flower = happyness. That's an elegant excuse, of course

http://spi4.itvnet.lv/upload2/articles/67/675246/images/Spongebob-logiskakie-3.gif

 

[Killswitch1]

Is that what they call it now? Looking for a fern flower?

lol

 

[BalticBeauty]

fern

Is that what they call it now? Looking for a fern flower?

Not now, but from the ancient times. As I have mentioned, I find certain elegance and wit in this

 

[Hard_Rom]

Bloody pagans!

 

[domroger]

Bring back the wicker man .

 

[Hard_Rom]

The Baltic regions like Latvia and Lithuania were some of the last European regions to be Christianized. Forcibly by Teutonic knights. Not surprised they still retain old pagan holy days. Those not Christianized like Yule, Hallow'een and Eostre.

 

[BalticBeauty]

song

Bloody pagans!

You should see me leaping over a bonfire!)
Valkyrie

I've remembered I know a beautiful Belarussian etnorock song for the occasion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZoY69MPMvQ
and a more joyful one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkUecXJ4Muw