Wait a sec...are you telling me that the Maypole festival is a celebration of the virgin mary? Is that what you are saying?
No! Duh!! It is an ancient pagan festival celebrating the rebirth of the earth in the spring season. I am saying we (Catholics) stole it from them and the Nazis tried to steal it back again.
Anyway, I love all kinds of May celebrations whether they are symbolic of spiritual or temporal rebirth.
I think there's some dancing round the May pole in the Whicker Man isn't there?