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Dec 21, 2021 10:08 PM
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mynameisnotmuseli
Happy Yule, y'all
G0MeatCube
There is no Yule only Zuul
GiantEnemyCrabbypatty
im ready for the yuletide knifefight
RandyKnapp
#5 I mean, not really. Any reading of that verse is about carving a wooden idol, not decorating a tree.
MarlenaWatches
Good Yule, OP!
ILoveToLaughHaHaHaHa
Just opened our Yule gifts! Happy Yule!!
BobTheSwede
In swedish a xmas is called Jul.
Krustation137
Spring equinox*
adambriner
_thankyou.gif_
MetaSomma
Happy yule! Hope it's been as great for you as it was for us! Cheers to longer days ahead
Eiladar
#6 On the subject, they didn't even bother renaming Easter. Eostre was an old Germanic fertility goddess. Her feast was around the spring
Eiladar
Equinox, and she was represented by hares and eggs (because reproduction). We also get the words estrus and estrogen from her name.
someofthebacon
God Jul!
fiddlewheelx
God jul te dokk all.
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
Lassannn
RevRagnarok
Have a Cool Yule!
Aurasyr
+⬆️ man. People tell me to stop being salty about it but I'm still salty about it.
CrashingDC
As a practicing pagan, thank you for posting this!
cloudstrife046583000
Keep practicing and I'm sure you'll get it eventually.
ObiHaiv
"Where is your Moses now?" -- "Yule" Brynner
klean9
Born Lutheran so it’s always been Christmas but I could be a Yule kind of guy
mackashi
Wait… so Santa is Odin?
beatenrug
carefull kids the yule tide is coming in. wait stop Yule regret it.
Rehjee
Just did a deep dive on the Norwegian King Hakon the good(Hàkonar saga góða), the whole christians with swords just isnt always the case.
Rehjee
Dr. Jackson Crawford, our Old Norse Specialist, on Jól: https://youtu.be/UUloIBXFOQE
SunAnvil
So I googled Jeremiah 10 and there is brief mention of a tree getting decorated but I couldn't connect it with the meme. I could be wrong.
skapanda616
More about idolatry, but I suspect that's also a connection.
Punkrockpearl
I'm making mulled wine...solitary eclectic. A lot of ya'll other pagans are cool, I just like flying solo on my besom. Happy Solstice!
binary2step
Made mulled wine the other day, made wassail last night
Pyjamas123
It is spelled jul in swedish
Rehjee
Jól in Old Norse.
TheEndlessOcean
Joulu in finnish :)
iDumle
Same in Danish, but that's not so surprising. :)
ricpaul
So that's where Julmust stems from... ;) Drank it in 1990 but got told it is now available throughout the year :(
LittlePinkAnimal
Well not widely I'd say. They sell it at easter as påskmust. They tried to introduce it during midsummer as well a bunch of years ago but
LittlePinkAnimal
That didn't work. You might be able to get it in specialty shops all year but not normally.
ricpaul
Good to hear! We have Sinterklaas (Dec 5th) and 1 of the specialities used to be in stores mid Nov. Now it's early September. Makes me sick>
ricpaul
seeing traditions being slaughtered for a few extra bucks of revenue.
MyNameIsPer
Precisely! And we commonly say Juletid a.k.a. "Christmas Time", for the none Germanic.
binary2step
Celebrating Yule instead of Christmas hasade my life infinitely better
PineappleLoopsBroether
Has made?
binary2step
Yes
binary2step
I know there's a typo but idgaf cause I'm already drunk because fuck it, it's Yule
ImmatellallyallboutFightClub
Yule get my upvote for that!
PineappleLoopsBroether
PineappleLoopsBroether
Oh yeah, let’s burn a Fox News Christmas tree EVERY year, bud!
binary2step
Sounds good to me!
EVILMEMNOCH
In Australia christians celebrate there christmas during summer solstice. How double wrong is that? Lol. Happy Solstice.
EroticZombiePants
Northerners probably should do that too given astronomers calculated Jesus' actual birth day to be in June.
Lifk
Well it seems to be bullshit as the rest. I found 3 source with 3 differentes date , the more source the more date
EroticZombiePants
I found this searching for what I said: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/astronomers-jesus-was-bor_n_149749
6thsigma
Comically none of the scholarly estimates are in early winter.
Lifk
https://meridianprophecy.com/2015/07/07/when-was-jesus-christ-born/ september 29 , 2 BC
Lifk
https://www.agapebiblestudy.com/documents/Dating%20the%20Birth%20of%20Jesus%20of%20Nazareth.htm 12/13 march 4BC
Lifk
https://truthinscripture.net/2017/01/04/jesus-birth-the-star-of-bethlehem/ september 11, 3BC
Lifk
https://astronomy.com/news/2020/12/the-star-of-bethlehem-can-science-explain-what-it-really-was june something
acetothermus
I think it would be neat to celebrate Yule in at the beginning of summer. Would be WAY better than this cold BS up north.
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
I love having it in winter! One year I was in Costa Rica for Christmas, and it just didn't feel the same without it being winter. /1
InkyBlinkyPinkyAndClyde
Especially when there's snow, which is getting rarer unfortunately. The Christmas lights look so much nicer in the snow! /2
skapanda616
Litha or Midsummer/Midsommer is also dope https://www.bpl.org/blogs/post/the-origins-and-practices-of-litha/
acetothermus
Look at @OP delivering the goods. NICE!
EVILMEMNOCH
Its so incredibly hot here in north Australia. 10 mins in the sun and you start getting sunburned. I live for winter.
acetothermus
I'm in California, so the heat is legit a part of my soul. I LOATH winter with every fiber of my being.
EroticZombiePants
If you live in the Midwest, you'll grow to hate both Summer and Winter.
acetothermus
Spent several weeks worth of summer and about 6 of winter in Nebraska. NEVER again.
oneloverasta
Can confirm
Winstitutionalized
Just an FYI my understanding is that Cristmas is not actually a stolen holiday it's been around longer than many of the other solstice ->
ghostlight
Yeah also the things it 'stole' are more accurately converted peoples keeping their old traditions but folding them into their new religion
binary2step
"converted"
Winstitutionalized
But, they were converted. If they weren't why are their ancestors still celebrating the newer religion.
binary2step
Idk, why don't you ask Black people why their ancestors stopped practicing their religions?
Winstitutionalized
Why don't you ask Black people why they still do?
Winstitutionalized
It is purported to have usurped actually. Sol Invictus, Yule, Maben, and Saturnalia are all seperate, and Christman is older than ->
Winstitutionalized
a few of them, dating from as far back as the 200's AD.
skapanda616
May want to Google dates for some of the solstice celebrations you mentioned. Saturnalia is several hundred years older than Christianity
skapanda616
Yule appears to date back to some 500 BCE
Winstitutionalized
edit, not maben but mithras, mithras is a younger religion than christianity.
Winstitutionalized
Yes but it's celebrated in the weeks before the 25th. So how could the christians have stolen a day from a holiday that they didn't use?
skapanda616
They shifted the dates slightly... But borrowed heavily from all of the traditions, while attempting to suppress those religions.
binary2step
Well dates are approximate due to the fact that ancient civilizations didn't use the Julian calendar
acetothermus
I've been once again been reminded of the critical lack of pagan friends in my life. I need to fix this.
phukerstone
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
Technically EVERYONE is a pagan , they just don't know it.
DignamWhenAskedaQuestion
acetothermus
Nice!
Ulfhedna
Nice to meet you
majikdakini
Hi friend!
acetothermus
Hello. ?
LateNightBunnyParty
Pagan here! Happy Yule!
drakionx
Solo practitioner here. I know a few Wiccans, but no Norse heathens.
Sphinct182
Yes! Also beware of weirdo white supremacists who are trying to co-opt legitimate pagan traditions!
acetothermus
Wait. That's a thing? ?
Sphinct182
Yes, they are playing "Special Viking Warrior Boy" and pretending that they share a relationship with their "Ancient Norse Ancestors".
acetothermus
I don't know why I am surprised, but here I am, surprised. Anyone find the exit for this reality? It's past time to go.
drakionx
Dudes are a strange mix of ultra right wing military fetishists who lean heavy on nazi imagery. Spout about Valhalla while being Christians.
drakionx
In my experience it's usually "Odinists". Most racists aren't bothered to learn what asatru is or anything else for that matter.
Rehjee
Personally, asatru doesnt make a lot of sense, seeing as we are forced to make a LOT of assumptions from what has been lost to time. ->
Rehjee
-> but, speaking as a Jesus follower, worship ardently the gods that you follow. Be hot or be cold, dont stand on the fence and wonder long
drakionx
Yes there's recreation involved as sources are scarce, but the idea that your flavor of christanity isn't highly bastardized is near sighted
binary2step
Hi friend, I'm pagan!
daychilde
Blessed be!
jessinthedark
Pagan here! In Australia though so I can't use the smug Yule references.
Gimmethatbackmeat
Hi pagan, I'm friend
acetothermus
Hi. ??♂️
acetothermus
ZOMG!!! HI2U *calms down* I meant to say sup?
binary2step
Sup. How goes your first day of Yule?
acetothermus
Well, started out iffy, but the sun finally burned through the fog and now I'm enjoying it. How's yours been treating you?
binary2step
I had to work this morning but now I'm home drinking wassail and spending time with my family
EmanNiemThcin
#2 You don't actually know what you're talking about, do you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_Christianity
skapanda616
... may want to read all of your source before slapping your stupidity on the table.
ColonelColon
Most historians agree that it was just Yule was already a thing that Christians just aligned Christ's births/deaths to because they 1)
ColonelColon
already considered those times special/important and wanted Christ's conception, birth, and death line up with these important dates.
skapanda616
Ya, I'm aware.
binary2step
You took too comments to say Christians stole Yule
ColonelColon
Then you've misunderstood what I said. They did not "steal it" it naturally blended because people want to believe their holy stuff 1)
EmanNiemThcin
Nothing in there supports your nonsense, they converted themselves and brought their traditions along.
skapanda616
"However, fighting between Pagan and Christian Goths continued throughout this period"
skapanda616
Granted, some people did willingly convert, as Christianity became preeminent, it became less and less optional.
EmanNiemThcin
Your reading comprehension sucks: That means there was no invading army, the people themselves fought each other and converted themselves.
skapanda616
Granted, some people did willingly convert, as Christianity became preeminent, it became less and less optional.
skapanda616
These groups weren't monolithic. They were small tribes/groups killing each other...