This is a compilation of several older Beltaine rituals that I’ve written.

Herne: "By my rights as King, I deny your entrance.
Those of summer, keep your distance.
Here the winter still holds fast,
Here no spring has come to pass."

The Oak Lord, Cerrunos, challenges Herne to battle for the right to enter the trees.

Cerrunos: "Your rival, Lord Herne, does issue challenge.
Your time is past, our rights I revenge.
For our right to enter I will fight,
And change will come, as day to night."

Herne nods.

Herne: "Enter then this grove, and fight,
This challenge is by yours a right."

Everyone enters the grove under the gigantic oak, and Herne and Cerrunos fight each other. Herne must appear to win at first but Cerrunos eventually get's hold of Herne and forces him down.

Cerrunos: "Yield, Lord Herne. Your time is past."

Herne turns his head, and looks up at Cerrunos with a very angry face. He's not happy that he has lost.

Herne: "I return to where winter still holds fast.
For now you have your place of sun,
By fighting me, you think you've won,
But fighting me carries its cost
And beating me, you still have lost."

Cerrunos let's Herne up. Herne sounds his horn to call the Wild Pack with him and stalks out of the grove. (The person playing Herne takes off his black sweatshirt outside of the grove and comes back in to rejoin the festivities.) The maiden is presented to the Oak Lord then, and she crowns him with a wreath of flowers.

Maiden: "My lord, I great you as Maiden of Spring,
I welcome your presence and the gifts that you bring.
May your reign be pleasant and fruitful and long,
Against the cold of winter hold strong."

The Maiden brings Cerunnos up to the Goddes, and presents him.

Maiden: Mother, here I bring your new lord,
Hounds and Herne have fled northward.

Goddess: Daughter, in your judgement I trust,
And you we know are true and just,
My lord's leaving we all once forsaw,
But this one must prove his worth by law.
You his guide through tests shall be
But he must earn his own way free.

Cerunnos nods to the Goddess and kneels. He is blindfolded and led away.

Goddess: Nixsa, Djinn, Paralda, Ghob,
You as challenges block his road.
Water, Air, Fire, and Earth,
West and East, North and South,
Passing riddles, passing tests,
To earn my heart he must me best.

Nixsa, Djinn, Paralda, and Ghob scatter themselves to the positions that they were shown earlier in the day. They each carry a ribbon, the color of their element.

Djinn carries yellow, Paralda carries red, Nixsa carries blue, and Ghob carries green. The Goddess carries the violet ribbon of the final test, and she remains in the center clearing. Everyone who's not involved in Cerunnos's first four tests can take a break and eat something and drink something and talk, since there will be four horn-blasts before you have to get ready. The Maiden will blow the horn each time Cerunnos makes it past a challenge.

In the mean time, the Maiden has taken Cerunnos quite a distance away, blindfolded. When she finally reaches the appropriate starting point, she stops and lets go of Cerunnos's hands, and leaves him. Standing several feet away from him, she says,

"Blind as those you would lead you begin,
and now you must earn what you would win.
I return what I took, your ability,
Now use your wits and become free.
As guide I can offer only advice,
For answers your wits must suffice,
There is not only one right way,
For you, all truths are right this day."

The Maiden begins walking towards Djinn, the challenge of the East, and brings Cerunnos with her. (He can follow if he wants to - but if he doesn't, he's lost his guide.) Djinn stands under the bridge. When they reach Djinn, he says,

"Traced in your fingers, the Navajo say,
A sharp bitter cold in your mouth in the winter,
I am Named Zephrys when I travel east,
I clear both clouds and fill the sky,
Who am I?"

When Cerunnos answers "Wind" in one form or another, Djinn says,
"One Guardian have you,
Brave boy, three left to face,
The East will stand true,
Djinn urges you on in the race."

He ties his yellow ribbon on Cerunnos's left wrist, and the Maiden blows the horn, and leads Cerunnos on to Paralda, who has built a small fire on the far side of the bamboo grove.

Paralda challenges Cerrunos with:

"Eating all in my path, I grow,
I live in the sun and the stars,
The first child making light,
When my food or breath is taken, I die,
Who am I?"

This time, the answer is fire. When Cerunnos answers, Paralda says,

"Two Guardians have you,
Brave man, two left unfought,
The South will stand true,
Paralda's sends you on with thought.”

She ties her red ribbon around hi left wrist, along with the yellow one, and the Maiden blows the horn and leads Cerunnos on to Nixsa, standing next to the stream.

Nixsa speaks her challenge:

"Struck, I will shatter, yet reform in time,
Your former home, yet deadly now,
Still I am needed to live,
A taste of me when ere you cry,
Who am I?"

The answer is, of course, water. When Cerunnos says so, Nixsa says,

"Three Guardians have you,
Brave lord, one left to know,
The West will stand true,
Nixsa bids you onward go.

Nixsa ties the blue ribbon around his wrist with the others, and the Maiden blows the horn a third time, and leads Cerunnos to Ghob, standing on the side of the hill.

Ghob challenges Cerunnos:

”Solid, yet changing, both firm and quaking,
Mountains and molehills both are mine,
From me you come forth and to me you return,
Escape though men try,
Who am I?"

The answer is earth, and when Cerunnos says so, Ghob says:

"Four Guardians have you,
Brave god, facing one other,
The North will stand true,
No go face the Mother."

Ghob ties the green ribbon around his wrist, and the Maiden blows the horn. NOW everyone in the clearing forms a circle around the cauldron, wand, stone, and the small fire that has been laid when the last blast is heard, Djinn leaving an opening in the East. Ghob comes up the hill with the Maiden and Cerunnos, and takes his place in the north, while the other three Guardians have already returned to take up their places.

The Maiden leads Cerunnos to the East, where the Goddess bars their way.

Goddess: The Guardians of the Quarters,
By your wrist I can see,
Bear you special favor,
But you still must face me.
Answer my challenge,
And now speak you true,
What gift have we all
Faster than bird ever flew?
Swifter than the flowing water,
Surer than the earth and stone,
Brighter than fire blazing,
Stronger than all winds ever blown.
A gift long given,
yet often unclaimed,
By time it is multiplied,
and by learning is named?"

The answer is either Thought or Spirit or Mind, and when Cerunnos names it, the Lady takes the ribbons off Cerrunnos's wrist and lets him into the circle.

Goddess: In this place, and time of birth,
We welcome one who earns new worth.
Enter in peace, by truth you are known,
By this testing, you are my Lord, I own.

All: Lord we name you,
Our trust we do give you,
Our faith we now grant you.

Cerunnos at this point gets prompted into saying the lines he learned earlier for the Beltaine fire.

Cerunnos: Here earth, here water, here wind and fire,
Here powers all combine as one,
And with our call we great the spring,
In this place, Herne's reign is done.

The Lady takes the Lord's hand and leads her to the East, where Djinn takes her hand and everyone does the spiral dance around the clearing. After a dance, the Lord and Lady leap over the Beltaine fire to ensure prosperity and fruitfulness for the next year and then they break the circle.

Goddess: We scatter the circle and the four quarters,
For by this rite they now are woken,
The powers around are with us always,
Just as this circle will not be broken.

The Goddess takes up the cauldron of water and pours it over the fire, and then buries the remnants.

Cerrunnos: Merry meet and merry part and merry meet again.
So mote it be.

All: So mote it be. Fiat!