Hi Amy,
The Berkeley oss dances at Live Oak Park on the Saturday closest to May Day; I do not know of it traveling elsewhere. However, one of the inspirations for it was a Renfaire oss back in the 1980s. The Berkeley oss is now 19 years old -- an "ancient" tradition!
Loved your website! It's great to see you happy and doing well. I also enjoyed your co-edited book _New Directions in Celtic Studies_. Will you be at CSANA in LA in March?
Best,
Sabina
---- Original message ----
>Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 20:37:06 -0500
>From: Amy Hale <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: FYI--*Oss! Oss! Wee Oss!* Online
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
> I haven't seen the Berkeley Oss, and it sounds like
> an interesting display. I'd love to catch it
> sometime if I'm in the area. Out of curiousity, do
> they take their Oss elsewhere? I recall seeing a
> pretty good Oss at a Ren Faire outside L.A. many
> years ago.
>
> Best,
> Amy
>
> www.amyhale.weatherlight.com
>
> On 1/19/06, Sabina Magliocco <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> You're right, Amy; in Padstow the osses meet at
> the maypole at 6:00 PM to exchange batons and
> teasers. But the community does not dance around
> the pole, weaving ribbons, as they do in
> Berkeley. In Berkeley, the oss does not dance
> around the maypole at all; the oss doesn't even
> come out til after the dance!
>
> BB,
> Sabina
>
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:46:49 -0500
> >From: Amy Hale < [log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: FYI--*Oss! Oss! Wee Oss!* Online
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >
> > Sabina writes:
> >
> > 7) Finally, as Pitch pointed out, the
> Bekeley rite
> > is part of a Neopagan ritual. The
> interpretation
> > of the oss, its role, the fact that the rite
> also
> > incorporates a May Pole dance (absent in
> Padstow)
> > and a conflict between the May and Winter
> Queens
> > makes it a very different event.
> >
> > I believe that there is a May Pole element at
> > Padstow, Sabina. When I attended (in 96) the
> Red
> > and Blue Osses met at the end of the day and
> there
> > was a May Pole dance.
> >
> > Now you know what tune will be going through
> my head
> > all night!
> >
> > Amy
> Sabina Magliocco
> Associate Professor
> Department of Anthropology
> California State University
> 18111 Nordhoff St.
> Northridge, CA 91330-8244
Sabina Magliocco
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
California State University
18111 Nordhoff St.
Northridge, CA 91330-8244
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