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Posted in Candle Holders & Accessories on 06/26/2005 09:32 am by admin
Pagans! Help me Celebrate Yule!!?
O.k. my Husband is Wiccan/Pagan, and has been in the closet about it most of his life because we grew up in the Bible Belt. Well now after many years of Soul seraching, he is fully comfortable about displaying his religean and isnt' hiding it anymore. Well, we both grew up in Christian homes, and know how to Celebrate Christmas...but he feels bad Calling it that. He's in Iraq at the moment, but will be home Right before Christmas, and I want to Suprise him With a full blown Pagan Yule-tide...but I dont' know how. I mean.. the Tree, sure I can do that, but what about the Yule Log? and Maybe Candles? The other problem is I don't know what they represent, or any Ceremony behind it. I want him to have the Full experience like the did in the old days, but I dont know how.
How do you Celebrate Yule? Please Help!
Greetings!
What we call "Traditional Christmas" is really Pagan in every way....the Mistletoe, the Egg-Nog, the Gifts, the Yule Log...on and on, but you can make a Yule-Log by getting a small Log with Bark still attached, and decorate it with Holly or Oak leaves and various Symbols, such as a Pantagram, then add a small Candle and there you go!
In many cultures, customs practiced at Yule-Tide involve divination--foretelling the future at a Magick time: the seasonal turning of the Wheel.
In Russia, there's a Christmas divination that involves candles. A girl would sit in a darkened room, with two lighted candles and two mirrors, pointed so that one reflects the candlelight into the other. The viewer would seek the seventh reflection, then look until her future would be seen.
The early Germans built a stone altar to Hertha, Goddess of domesticity and the home, during winter Solstice. With a fire of fir boughs stoked on the altar, Hertha was able to descend through the smoke and guide those who were wise in Saga lore to foretell the fortunes of those at the feast.
In Spain, there's an old custom that is a holdover from Roman days. The Urn of Fate is a large bowl containing slips of paper on which are written all the names of those at a family get-together. The slips of paper are drawn out two at a time. Those whose names are so joined are to be devoted friends for the year. Apparently, there's often a little finagling to help matchmaking along, as well.
In Scandinavia, some families place all their shoes together, as this will cause them to live in harmony throughout the year.
Druidism: Druids form the professional class in Celtic society. They perform the functions of priests, teachers, ambassadors, astronomers, genealogists, philosophers, musicians, theologians, scientists, poets and judges. Druids led all public rituals, which were normally held within groves of Sacred Trees. The Solstice is the time of the Death of the old Sun and the Birth of the dark-half of the year. It is called Alban Arthuan by modern Druids. It is the end of month of the Elder Tree and the start of the month of the Birch. The three days before Yule is a magical time. This is the time of the Serpent Days or transformation...The Elder and Birch stand at the entrance to Annwn or Celtic underworld where all life was formed. Like several other myths they guard the entrance to the underworld. This is the time the Sun God journeys thru the underworld to learn the secrets of death and life. And bring out those souls to be reincarnated.
The Pueblo tribe observes both the summer and winter solstices. Although the specific details of the rituals differ from pueblo to pueblo, the rites are built around the sun, the coming new year and the rebirth of vegetation in the spring....Winter solstice rites include...prayerstick making, retreats, altars, emesis and prayers for increase.
The Hopi tribe is dedicated to giving aid and direction to the sun which is ready to 'return' and give strength to budding life. Their ceremony is called "Soyal." It lasts for 20 days and includes prayerstick making, purification, rituals and a concluding rabbit hunt, feast and blessing...
There are countless stone structures created by Natives in the past to detect the solstices and equinoxes. One was called Calendar One by its modern-day finder. It is in a natural amphitheatre of about 20 acres in size in Vermont. From a stone enclosure in the center of the bowl, one can see a number of vertical rocks and natural features in the horizon which formed the edge of the bowl. At the solstices and equinoxes, the sun rises and sets at notches or peaks in the ridge which surrounded the calendar.
Inca: The ancient Incas celebrated a festival of Inti Raymi at the time of the Winter Solstice. It celebrates the Festival of the Sun where the god of the Sun, Wiracocha, is honored. Ceremonies were banned by the Roman Catholic conquistadores in the 16th century as part of their forced conversions of the Inca people to Christianity. A local group of Quecia Indians in Cusco, Peru revived the festival about 1950. It is now a major festival which begins in Cusco and proceeds to an ancient amphitheater a few miles away.
Ancient Egypt: The god-man/savior Osiris died and was entombed on DEC-21. At midnight, the priests emerged from an inner shrine crying : “The Virgin has brought forth! The light is waxing ” and showing the image of a baby to the worshipers.
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