Pagan yule rituals

    • [DOC File]Eplagarthr Kindred’s Study Program

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      But the early Christian fathers knew that pagan beliefs and rituals and images which had become part of the lives of cultures and communities over thousands of years could not be eliminated overnight by edict. Some have survived even to this day: Easter eggs, maypoles, May Queens, Yule logs, Christmas trees, holly and mistletoe ...

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    • [DOC File]How I Became a Godless Heathen

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      Yule (include all significant nights within the Yule season – i.e. Mother’s Night, Yule day, Twelfth Night) Short book reviews on The Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland and at least one of these two books by H.R. Ellis Davidson: Gods and Myths of Northern Europe or Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe: Scandinavian and Celtic Religions.

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    • [DOC File]Church of God

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      Most of the customs, lore, symbols, and rituals associated with "Christmas" actually are linked to Winter Solstice celebrations of ancient Pagan cultures. In old Europe, it was known as Yule, from the Norse, Jul, meaning wheel. Today, many people in Western-based cultures refer to this holiday as "Christmas” but its roots are Pagan.

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    • [DOC File]2SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN GIRDLE - Keith Sagar

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      The Church's alarm deepened when Emperor Aurelian, noticing that the pagan rituals had begun to converge around Mithras, the solar god, decreed in 274 C.E. that December 25, the winter solstice in the Julian Calendar, be kept as a public festival in honor of the Invincible Sun. Rome's Christians challenged paganism directly by specifying ...

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    • [DOC File]Samhain - Meetup

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      Rituals and celebrations are customarily geared around remembering ancestors and honoring the dead. Following the basic principle of Balance, while we must look to the past, we must also look to the future. Consideration for projects and goals for the future years are appropriate here. Believe it or not, "New Year's Resolutions" are NOT a new ...

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    • [DOC File]Wicca & Magick: Beginning Wicca: What is Wicca

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      It wasn't long before I became involved, drawn into a broad community, and spent nearly two decades actively participating in Pagan practice. There was a time when I was deeply passionate about this practice, writing poetry and music to celebrate the Earth and the cycle of the seasons, and writing and leading rituals myself.

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    • [DOC File]Yule

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      "The Yule Log tradition comes to us from Scandinavia, where the pagan sex and fertility god Jul, or Jule (pronounced 'yule'), was honored in a twelve-day celebration in December. A large, single log (generally considered to have been a phallic idol) was kept with a fire against it for twelve days, a different sacrifice to Jul being offered in ...

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    • [DOC File]Samhain

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      Wicca is an unending path of light, magic, love, and constant learning. We revere nature and see the true divine beauty of the universe. It’s about recognizing that we all have

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    • [DOC File]Truth On The Web Ministries

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      "Yule" means "wheel," a pagan symbol of the sun. Yet today professing Christians speak of the "sacred Yule-tide season"! Even the lighting of fires and candles as a Christian ceremony is merely a continuation of the pagan custom, encouraging the waning sun-god as …

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    • Yule Rituals - Raven Moonlight Botanicals

      The Norse word for Yule means "Wheel." In ancient Chaldee, the word yule meant "infant" or "little child", in old english the word means "jolly". The concept of the Old Father Time and the Baby New Year have these same pagan overtones as well. Each are views of the old being replaced by the new, the ever recurring cycle of life.

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