Does anyone celebrate Yule?

[RavenHardt]

On December 21st?

[sheepsnot]

I did watch The King and I. 8)

[elfworks]

that would be me, your resident pagan!
solstice is the bomb!

:D


xo

[dvdguy]

I have the Yule log on dvd. Does that count?

[mrshfromjersey]

I haven't personally celebrated Yule...YET

[RavenHardt]

[quote="ElfWorks"]that would be me, your resident pagan!
solstice is the bomb!

:D


xo[/quot

Merry Meet......woohoo......I am thrilled to have someone here to burn the old yule log with.

[elfworks]

rockin!!

merry met back atcha!!!!!


:???:



xo

[sheepsnot]

I don't know what the heck you guys are talking about. I feel like a foreigner. How does one celebrate Yule? :-o

[dvdguy]

yule log. channel 11. or on dvd

[elfworks]

yule is the celebration of the winter solstice. many of the traditions associated with the holiday season have their roots in the solstice celebration.


xo

[mrshfromjersey]

I get naked and run around in the snow....or is that a stereotype?

[mrshfromjersey]

Got this off the Wikipedia...

What is certain, is that Yule celebrations at the winter solstice predate Christianity, and though there are numerous references to Yule in the Icelandic sagas, there are few accounts of how Yule was actually celebrated, beyond the fact that it was a time for feasting. 'Yule-Joy', with dancing, continued through the Middle Ages in Iceland, but was frowned upon when the Reformation arrived. It is, however, known to have included the sacrifice of a pig for the god Freyr, a tradition which survives in the Scandinavian Christmas ham.

The confraternities of artisans of the 9th century, which developed into the medieval guilds, were denounced by Catholic clergy for their "conjurations" when they swore to support one another in coming adversity and in business ventures. The occasions were annual banquets on December 26,

"feast day of the pagan god Jul, when it was possible to couple with the spirits of the dead and with demons that returned to the surface of the earth... Many clerics denounced these conjurations as being not only a threat to public order but also, more serious in their eyes, satanic and immoral. Hincmar, in 858, sought in vain to Christianize them" (Rouche 1987, p. 432).

[sheepsnot]

How did I not notice that beautiful graphic at the top of the page? Where do you guys find these things?

[elfworks]

double double toil and trouble

fire burn and cauldron bubble.



BOO!


the bottom line is that it is just a celebration of the new season and the return to the light half of the year. an appreciation of mother earth, if you will.......


nothing spooky or satanic or anything even vaguely resembling that!


xo

[mrshfromjersey]

:???:

What's Merry Met mean?

[elfworks]

hello.


xo

[mrshfromjersey]

Kind of like they say at the renaisance festivals. Hail and well met?

[elfworks]

just like that!


xo

[mrshfromjersey]

Sweet....we got engaged at a renaisance festival...on the kissing bridge

[elfworks]

i remember that!!


xo

[caseydbell]

Nope :-D

[Christmas Cheers]

Isn't there wrestling and a pole involved...oh wait thats Festivus.



:merry:

[MarthaK]

I have always enjoyed the chocolate yule log from Swiss Colony......
I jump up and down and say "Oh goodie!" when it arrives. Does that count?

:???:

[sheepsnot]

Yes. Yes it does. If you send me the next one you get, it'll count double. 8)

[dvdguy]

where might this yule log come from?

[snowangel82]

I celebrate both Christmas and Yule even though I consider myself to be an eclectic pagan. It's good to know there are a few here too!

[sheepsnot]

There's nothing quite as exciting as electric pagans! :lol:

[elfworks]

There's nothing quite as exciting as electric pagans! :lol:


LOL

XO

[Ervserver]

I think my folk's card club had a Yule Gibbons night and a lot of Grape Nuts were served

[sheepsnot]

What's an electric pagan without something to plug in to? (Sounds much deeper than it actually is. That's the secret to good writing.)

[mrshamm]

we go caroling and then have friends over to burn a yule log and have cider. We have a gift wrapping party while we are burning the yule log. It's very fun.

[HoHoHoHeeHeeHee]

I think my folk's card club had a Yule Gibbons night and a lot of Grape Nuts were served
ROFL :lol: :lol:
I remeber those tv commercials

[Ervserver]

wonder what became of him....deceased probably


:o