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love-islike-abomb · 4 months

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Merry yule my fellow pagans and witches

May Odin bring you many gifts, may Loki bring you many laughs and may Hekate light your path.

A very dear friend sent me the picture above❤️

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aelfhild-astraedottir · 4 months

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Thora and Sleipnir's Sleigh: Part 12

by Ælfhild Astrædottir

Part 1 conveniently linked: here!

New Year's Eve in the Yule Father's Village

At the end of the calendar

When the dark polar night reigns yet

The Yule Father's Village bustles

And hustles with their second wind

It is New Year's Eve at last

Let the partying now commence!

Effervescent mead bubbling

Nuts popping around the campfires.

Garlands of cranberries crimson

Ribbons twined through hair and rack

Reindeer line dance patterns in snow

Elves cartwheel over furry backs

Foxes caper holding sparklers

Fireworks invite the sky to play

Thora is festooned with lights

Before streaking through the crisp air.

And that's a wrap for my Yuletide story this year: I hope you all enjoyed this festive poetry experiment of mine!

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thevagabondsbride-blog · 1 year

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Father Christmas 1907 by Arthur Rackham

#father christmas #Christmas #Yule #winter #old man winter #traditions #arthur rackham #Victorian art

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thenightling · 5 months

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You know, with the way the English language is shifting I think Santa's "Naughty or Nice" list should be updated to "Cruel or Kind." "Nice," today, tends to mean acting good more than actually being good. Notice how most people bristle at terms like "Nice Guy" because of how it's come to be used to mean a seemingly nice guy who... isn't. But "Cruel or Kind" would hit the point home for a lot of people.

#Santa Claus #Christmas #Yule #Jul #Julnir #Kris Kringle #Saint Nicholas #Father Christmas #Santa

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jajna · 5 months

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I got the back of my fridge full of Julmust. No one can tell me this is not a wonderful sight~<3

For anyone unfamiliar. This is Swedens beloved Yule/christmas drink Julmust (non alcoholic). It's sweet and very foamy compared to coca cola who's shunned on the table.

IM SO HAPPY I CAN DRINK THIS AGAIN!!!! <3

#i love my julmust and will drink it all the way to newyears and a little father =w =-#julmust #yule

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auutumn · 7 months

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autumn court inspired by germanic folklore & fairytales, my beloved

#the autumn court in general owns my heart. everyone else is in a romance novel & they're in game of thrones.#the temptation to develop the entire court and its regions.#imagine lesser fae based on the waldleute & changelings (both very fitting for autumn)#feldgeister hidden in the rows of corn. the bergmönch in the mountains. yule witches in their huts.#wolpetingers rustling in the trees. eris' 12 helhonds.#the lorelei singing atop the rocks by the sea.#gothic bavarian-style architecture. viennese-baroque palaces. wild countryside with fruitful orchards / harvests / and parades.#ACTUALLY! pied piper allegory for eris - for his persuasions; schemes; and promises.#just... grimm vibes.#tbd.#adding to that thought: modern verse eris is of bavarian/dutch descent.#eris' father is german & his mother is flemish-dutch.#i could talk about this for days.

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mythosblogging · 1 year

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Winter is a time of darkening nights, colder days and gloomy skies. Despite the weather, there are still plenty of folkloric figures out and about. Though some bring cheer and gifts to brighten up the winter, others are there to make it worst – bringing threats of coal, kidnapping and even bodily harm to make sure that people are behaving themselves over the winter period.

Grýla

The Icelandic giantess Grýla lives in a cave in the mountains with her lazy husband, Leppalúði. Predating Christmas, she is said to come down from the mountains during midwinter and Yule to snatch up disobedient children. She carries them home in her sack, killing them and cooking them up for dinner.

For a malicious harbinger of winter, Grýla is an unusually social creature. In addition to her husband, she has thirteen sons, each happy to cause mischief and – in modern interpretations – leave treats out for children. On different days during December, households are visited by a different son – each named for the type of mischief he causes, whether that’s stealing milk, harassing sheep or stealing food.

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#Mythos #Mythos Articles #Myths and Legends #Winter #Christmas #Folklore #Gyrla #Yule Lads #Yule Cat #Winter Legends #Father Christmas #Ded Moroz #Krampus #La Befana

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dowsingfordivinity · 1 year

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Anarchic Yule

Yule is a distinct festival, often overshadowed by its younger sibling, Christmas. If you’re a Pagan or have Pagan leanings, the chances are that everything you love about Christmas is actually because it’s a Yule thing. If you love the tree, the holly, the greenery being brought into the house, the feasting, and the reciprocity of thoughtful gift giving (as opposed to obligatory gift giving…

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tar-thelien · 6 months

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Whoever is interested in seeing an Anbang WIP

#mairon passing as the yule goat and melkor as father yule

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cosmicwitch23 · 1 year

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Wishing you all a blessed Yule!! Merry Christmas!! Happy Holidays! And a better year for all in 2023 Thank you for being a friend xo

#yule #MerryChristmas #PapaNatale

#yule #christmas #holiday season #newyear2023 #santa claus #father christmas

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cthulhucoffee · 1 year

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#santa claus #santa #Comic #Christmas #Yule #Father Christmas #Dagsson

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afieldinengland · 1 year

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#thinking about sacrificial kings……. robin redbreast. punch the fool. jesus christ. john barleycorn #‘for you have chosen the role of king for a day— and who but a fool would do that?’#even milo tindle in sleuth is brought as a sacrifice. ‘now in your moment of dying you are yourself’#penda as he appeared to stephen franklin. last pagan king of england dying in the face of a sickened future but willing the flame to flicker #nonetheless in the fen. saturnalia— for howie to be tugged from influence to influence as king of his own demise. you know #‘all of it is for you and none of it is yours’. i’ve been contemplating yule on summerisle— if you haven’t read #the novelisation you’ve missed the interaction of his lordship and oak cutting down the mistletoe #i know beltane was the first time those good folk ever sacrificed a human being— and an outsider at that. so i don’t think they’d offer #a king in a bloody sense. but perhaps his lordship would present himself low and white-robed and holly-berried #for nuada’s midwinter ritual. i saw father-sun couple as teaser with mother-moon as boy yesterday #so why would it not be the parallel-inversion upon summerisle? some love rite amid the cold stones and a feast of kingly harvest afterward.#oh. we crown the king we reap the king we kill the king we eat the king. natural in the nut-brown bowl

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maypoleman1 · 4 months

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25th December

Christmas Day

Merry Old Santa Claus by Thomas Nast. Sources: Harper’s Weekly (1881) and The German Way website

Today is Christmas Day, a day that held spiritual significance long before it was designated Jesus Christ’s birthday by the early Church. Christianity’s chief rival to become the official religion of the Roman Empire was Mithraism. The Persian sun-god Mithras, worshipped by large numbers of soldiers in the Roman army, was allegedly born of a virgin in lowly circumstances; rose from the dead; promoted fraternalism and good works amongst his devotees and was born on December 25th. Although the Church eventually decreed Mithraism to be a satanic cult, they first adopted many of the tenets of Mithras’ own character and rituals and incorporated them into their own, new, religion.

The modern Christmas also borrows from other, darker and northern roots. At the heart of this is the ambiguous figure of Father Christmas, who more recently became conflated with the Dutch gift-giving winter spirit, Santa Claus, who was himself a distant descendant of the Anatolian bishop, Saint Nicholas. Father Christmas was originally a character in the British Christmas medieval mumming plays, and with his crimson robe and long white beard, was the embodiment of a winter season that appeared completely dominant in late December. The parallel figure of Saint Nicholas, who via Dutch setters, became established in North America, fused with a much older pagan tradition of sky-travelling beneficence associated with the Germanic god Wotan, who rode the night sky during the feast of Yule, rewarding the good with gifts and good fortune on his six legged steed Sleipnir, and punishing the wicked. Followed by hordes of malevolent elves who visited ill on the undeserving, Wotan and St Nicholas merged into the slightly sinister chimney-descending gift giver, Santa Claus, in Northern Europe. Eventually, the homegrown figure of the British Father Christmas fused with his European cousin making all three characters almost indistinguishable. However formative nineteenth century contributions such as A Visit From St Nicholas (which portrayed the saint as a nocturnal elfin visitor, riding a small sleigh pulled by reindeer and entering houses via their chimneys) by Clement Clarke Moore in 1823; the Bacchus-like Father Christmas figure of the Ghost of Christmas Present in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, published in 1843, and the illustrations of Santa Claus in the 1860s by Thomas Nast all pulled together the essential elements of this rotund representation of seasonal jollity.

Festive greenery, originally a wish to remind people of the lost vegetation of summer, became ritualised within the Roman winter festival of Saturnalia. This household greenery later formed the basis of many Christmas decorations. These evergreens, who refused to die off in the winter, were thought to be endowed with magical powers, holly and ivy being viewed as particularly potent. Holly tended to be associated with male characteristics and ivy with the female: both were locked in timeless combat. The winter plant of greatest significance to the ancients was mistletoe, held by the Celts to hold the essence of the woodland gods in its berries. Mistletoe, unafraid of winter, was believed to be a cure-all, particularly if harvested at the time of the winter solstice. In the U.K., the most prevalent piece of greenery to be erected in family homes is the Christmas Tree - a relatively recent import from Germany thanks to Prince Albert, but which can probably trace its origins to the pagan Yule Log and the Norse Tree of Life, Yggdrasil.

#mithras #father christmas #santa claus #st nicholas #wotan #yule #sleipnir #holly #ivy #mistletoe #Christmas Trees #yggdrasil #christmas

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anunusualghost · 4 months

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