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amelie-von-krolock · 4 months

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Yuletide Greetings from the icelandic Yule Cat! 🎄🌟

#my art #yule cat #yuletide #yule art #pagan christmas #pagan art #icelandic folklore #iceland

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kochlandhomestead · 5 months

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Your yearly reminder that we are still here and you're even participating in our traditions

#pagan traditions #pagan #pagan Christmas #christmas tree #old ways #tradition #witchcraft

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peridotamethyst · 4 months

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Merry Pagan Christmas! 🎄☃️

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ravenousnightwind · 1 year

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On Sunday, I had some friends over. We used to do that a lot. Every single year, we'd all get together before covid. Typically, about one or two weeks before yuletide. This year, we finally did it again.

In the past, we had turkey, a grand feast that we all chipped in for. This year, we just Doordashed, and we had a really good time. We are all some flavor of pagan and / or spiritually curious. One of them honors many deities, and she asked me if she could give Thor some mead on my altar. I told her sure that's fine!

When she was done, she said my altar was the only one that she ever felt she could do that with. That anyone else's she never felt this connection about where it felt okay. I told her: "that's because it was designed that way." The gods never wanted me to limit my space to myself. I welcome those I invite with open arms, and they're welcome to leave offerings on my altar at any time for any reason. A few have done so in the past, her included.

It's special in a way.. perhaps even the reason why I no longer wish to pursue a social network with other pagans other than what I already have. Like joining the Troth (I did before and wasn't super amazing). Cuz I've been very lucky to have friends whom I honestly feel, the gods have led to me. We all get along, do things differently, and even think about different things or similar. But it has taken me a good portion of my life to be where I am now. So it's more that I didn't pursue it, rather that it happened naturally on its own, and was even there when I didn't know it!

Be thankful for those moments. Even if it's not what you expect. The winter tidings, Yulenir, the yuletide, the power of winter may surprise you if you are open to it. In some strange modern way, I feel as though..I'm doing what the ancestors did. Living life, involving faith and people who match up with mine, and just celebrating time with those people. It's mundane, but it's special. Special in a way that spiritual woo time just isn't.

I thank Frigg for this sense of family I get with them. It's probably the closest thing I'll ever have to a real social group anyway, but you know.. I'm glad because it means it isn't fake or forced, or because of spirituality. And yeah, that stuff is great, but what's really awesome is we just ended up being that way and coming together. I think in some way, that's what Yule really is on a more realistic level. You gather in winter, waiting for the sun's return, and the light of that love and compassion warms us as she's hidden. Family and friendship is what makes yuletide worth something, in my opinion. It's not just about the gods. It's about those we care for and about, too.

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thetemplarknight · 1 year

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Medieval Christmas and its pagan influences!

How the Catholic church transformed the pagan Winter Solstice into the medieval Christmas - through compromise and absorbing the unthinkable.

The Medieval Christmas at the time of the Knights Templar was twelve days of feasting and drinking that displayed lingering pagan influences that the Catholic church hadn’t been entirely able to root out. Like it or not, a medieval serf couldn’t resist unrestrained feasting, drinking, and merrymaking! The pagan Winter Solstice versus the medieval Christmas Christmas fell on the Winter Solstice…

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#buried #Christmas feasting #history #Medieval #medieval Christmas #mumming #pagan Christmas #Saturnalia #Templar #Viking Christmas #winter solstice

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lifehappend · 1 year

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Glad Lucia

Have you heard of the Lucia Celebrating?

Lucia's Day, festival of lights. celebrated in Sweden, Norway, and the Swedish-speaking areas of Finland on December 13

It's kind of an interesting holiday.

Because, like many Nordic holidays, it is both a Christian and a pagan holiday.

After converting to Christianity sometime around 1000, the Norse incorporated the legend of St. Lucia into their already existing celebration of light.

And that was the start of the Lucia celebration we know today

Then how do we celebrate Lucia?

We watch a parade of girls and boys clad in white full-length gowns, as we all singing songs together

Tradition has it that Lucia is to wear a crown of candles , and each of her handmaidens carries a candle in there hands.

The star boys, who like the handmaidens are dressed in white gowns, carry stars on sticks and have tall paper cones on their heads. The Christmas elves bring up the rear, carrying small lanterns.

Then the parade will usually walk through the town until they get to the church, where they will sing a couple of songs.

And suprice suprice, then we eat a special kind of "fika"

It's a quite lovely tradition, but for those who don't celebrate it, it probably looks kind of strange.

"The night treads heavily around yards and dwellingsIn places unreached by sun, the shadows brood Into our dark house she comes, bearing lighted candles, Saint Lucia, Saint Lucia."

#santa lucia #holiday #christmas #celebration #norse pagan #pagan #pagan christmas #pagan holidays #vikings #photoshop #photo manipulation #art #graphicdesign

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ex0skeletal-undead · 4 months

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Kolyada (an ancient Slavic pagan holiday in honor of the birth of the sun) by Iren Horrors

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#art #illustration #digital art #dark art #horror #pagan #folklore #kolyada #winter #yule #christmas

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jim-fetter-illustrations · 5 months

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Today's Christmas is nothing short of a fairy tale for profiteering.

Ya know what the original Christmas Ornaments were, and why?

Ornaments on our Christmas trees originated from the Germanic Pagan peoples of ancient Germany who worshiped a variety of supernatural beings as their Gods. And there was a God for just about every endeavor, from work ethics to socialization.

They had adorned their homes with evergreen boughs of Holly and trees for centuries, using hand made paper flowers, cookies, and fruit & nuts used to decorate Christmas trees as a sign that spring and life would return in the coming months, symbolizing eternal life and the rebirth cycle of life.

The only gifts to each other weren't below the tree, that's an American tradition created by industry to profiteer. The Gifts these ancient people gave to family members were put in stockings hung from the fireplace or the tree, and they were hand made or grown signifying from the heart, nothing commercially made would be appropriate for a loved one if you couldn't take the time to make it, grow it or raise it (animal), as this tradition was about Family and the harvest, not religion.

........... and we know how that turned out in today's Christmas Celebration of glorified materialism.

But for anyone out there that still believes materialism is the best tradition,... I like that 2024 Earth Roamer Expedition Motorhome, and it's on sale now in the $800,000 range,...........just sayin.....(Lol)

#Pagan christmas #glorified materialism #original Christmas Ornaments #Germanic Pagan peoples #supernatural beings #Christmas myths

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fairyunordinary · 1 year

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#pagan christmas #witch vibes

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amelie-von-krolock · 1 year

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Yuletide Greetings!!! 🎄 - The Krampus, also known as Kramperl or Bartl, is a figure that accompanies Saint Nicholas in various regional Advent traditions. These traditions are found all around the Alps, most of all in Austria, southern Germany and nothern Italy, but are also widespread in many parts of Eastern Europe. While Saint Nicholas gives presents to the good children, the naughty ones are punished by the Krampus, who most likely is a remnant of pre-Christian ideas and customs. - This little piece was an entry for the #spiritsofyulechallenge over on Instagram. :)

#krampus #yuletide #yuletideartwork #my art #yuletideart #yule #christmastraditions #german folklore #austrian folklore #pagan art #pagan christmas #kramperl #spirits of yule challenge #yule traditions

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marysmirages · 3 months

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Kolyada (2024)

#kolyada #winter solstice #folklore #belarus #slavic #slavic folklore #marysmirages #art #goat #slavic paganism #christmas #ukraine

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moonkissedmeli · 5 months

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Please enjoy my digital grimoire snippet about Winter Solstice!

#pagan #witch #witchblr #winter solstice #yule #blue christmas #witchcraft #wheel of the year #paganblr #solstice #winter #grimoire #digital grimoire #haola #demeter #posideon

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sag-dab-sar · 5 months

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Dear pagans, polytheists, and witches:

It is okay to celebrate Christmas.

Its okay to celebrating it as a non-Christian.

But you HAVE to accept and admit that it is a culturally Christian holiday.

In many culturally Christian countries you have to be cognizant of how Christmas is elevated above other religion's holidays.

Stop claiming every aspect of it is something stolen from ancient societies: bringing in trees, decorating with lights, gift giving— or whatever else you attribute to the "paganness" of Christmas with no legitimate sources.

Christmas was not stolen from the ancients and you cannot "reclaim it" by spreading pseudo-historical bullshit.

Just admit you will celebrate a culturally Christian holiday— its okay to admit that and move on.

[Edit: see my reblog of this for some basic sources to begin with]

[Edit 2: More info]

[Edit 3: I wrote a post about why you should accept/admit it as Culturally Christian and now that its Dec 25 I'mma just shut off reblogs for this, if you celebrated Christmas I hope you enjoyed it.]

#polytheism #paganism #helpol #witchcraft #occultism #hellenic polytheism #cultural christianity #pagan #witch #christmas #xmas holiday

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pagansphinx · 5 months

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