It’s that time of year again

tis the season

🎄🎄🎄 merry christmas! 🎄🎄🎄

Happy December 10th

Here’s your yearly reminder Christmas is a stolen Pagan holiday known as Yule! 

Yule. Yule or Yuletide (“Yuletime”) is a festival observed by the historical Germanic peoples. Scholars have connected the celebration to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht. It later underwent Christianized reformulation resulting in the term Christmastide. 

Traditions: 

The “Christmas” tree 

The evergreen fir tree has traditionally been used to celebrate winter festivals (pagan and Christian) for thousands of years. Pagans used branches of it to decorate their homes during the winter solstice, as it made them think of the spring to come. 

Hanging wreaths 

Wreaths originally were made for use with pagan rituals in Europe, and were associated with the changing seasons and fertility.

Santa Claus 

Santa Claus owes his very existence to the old Norse myths. He’s changed a lot over the centuries, but his origins in Scandinavia and Northern Europe cannot be denied. Here’s a look at how Santa Claus emerged from the lands of the Vikings, exchanging the Norse god Odin’s more terrifying traits for those of a plump, chuckling man of eternally good nature. Odin was chief among the Norse pagan deities. (We still remember him in the day of the week named for him, Wednesday, Woden’s Day.) He was spiritual, wise, and capricious. In centuries past, when the midwinter Yule celebration was in full swing, Odin was both a terrifying specter and an anxiously awaited gift-bringer, soaring through the skies on his flying eight-legged white horse, Sleipnir. Back in the day of the Vikings, Yule was the time around the Winter Solstice on Dec. 21. Gods and ghosts went soaring above the rooftops on the Wild Ride, the dreaded Oskoreia. One of Odin’s many names was Jólnir (master of Yule). Astride Sleipnir, he led the flying Wild Hunt, accompanied by his sword-maiden Valkyries and a few other gods and assorted ghosts. The motley gang would fly over the villages and countryside, terrifying any who happened to be out and about at night. But Odin would also deliver toys and candy. Children would fill their boots with straw for Sleipnir, and set them by the hearth. Odin would slip down chimneys and fire holes, leaving his gifts behind.

Ginger bread cookies

As part of the Saturnalia rites the Pagans ate little biscuits, often shaped like human beings or animals, usually with enlarged sexual organs. the Ginger Bread Boy story was updated by Joseph Jacobs and published as “Johnny-Cake” in his English Fairy Tales collection, but the story is clearly much older. Given what is known there should be no real doubt that originally the account held deep Pagan references to cannibalism and human sacrifice and to eating ones god in the form of a communion wafer. The story became a satirical memorial of one boy’s unsuccessful attempt to escape human sacrifice. 

Hanging stockings

Children would leave their shoes full of carrots, straw, or other similar foods for Odin’s mythic horse, Sleipnir. When Sleipnir ate the food, Odin would leave candy or other treats in their place.

The 12 days of “Christmas”

The ancient festival was a 12 daylong celebration beginning on the eve of the Winter Solstice (known to most Pagans as Yule) and ending at the new calendar year.

The mistletoe

Mistletoe has been around for a long time, and has been considered a magical plant by everyone from the Druids to the Vikings. The ancient Romans honored the god Saturn, and to keep him happy, fertility rituals took place under the mistletoe. Today, we don’t quite go that far under our mistletoe. Also in Norse mythology, mistletoe is associated with Frigga, a goddess of love. 

Decorating a “Christmas” tree

Typically, the ornaments represented a god – either Saturn, or the family’s patron deity. The laurel wreath was a popular decoration as well. Early Germanic tribes decorated trees with fruit and candles in honor of Odin for the solstice.

“Christmas” holly:

the holly was associated with the god of winter – the Holly King, doing his annual battle with the Oak King. Holly was known as a wood that could drive off evil spirits as well, so it came in very handy during the darker half of the year, when most of the other trees were bare.

Потому что в этом доме только одна звезда…

“Because in this house there’s only one star”

do you think in live orchestral performances of sleigh ride there’s a guy onstage with a whip who’s just there to make the “wh-PSH” sound effect? do you think he’s like a shirtless medieval torture man who is very confused by his surroundings and spends the whole rest of the concert scowling at the audience and screaming “HYEAAHHHH!!! AAAAAAAHHH!!!! RRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!” whenever they applaud? do you think that’s what they do? do you think that? Do you think that’s what they do at live orchestral performances of sleigh ride?

I’ve played this song with my orchestra for three years straight, and it is, unfortunately, just a slapstick! Makes all the second violinists and flautists jump, tho

there you have it folks, the whip crack sound effect is actually a slapstick played by a shirtless medieval torture man who is also constantly screaming and grunting

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This is bloody genius

Freaking amazing

“I saw father kissing Santa Claus”

 (from J.C. “I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus”)

Haha, i like this version of the song better ;)

christmas eve what about christmas adam

happy christmas adam to all men’s rights activists

Please stop pestering us with things like this. This has nothing to do with men fighting for their rights. Eve is short for ‘evening’. Please don’t turn activism into a joke. Thanks.

Someone isn’t having a good christmas adam

Christmas Adam: December 23rd. Comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.

Happy Christmas Adam everyone

16 Pet-Proof Christmas Trees

@smokeythemajestic 

Santa is on strike due to global warming.  All presents this year will be delivered by Sasha the Christmas Tiger.  Milk and cookies may not be sufficient.

“MUST BRING PRESENTS TO GOOD CHILDREN”

“Yes good”

“AND EAT THE BAD ONES”

“Wait no”

“EAT THEM”

“sasha no”

@burstofhope the Christmas tiger is watching

She is making a list

It is not easy with her paws but she is making it

shes almost here

This is my cat Tappy, but at Christmas I call her Catzilla. She always makes herself a spot in the Christmas village even if it means knocking trees aside or biting villager’s head.

(submitted by malevolentsnow)

I love that Damian steals the gift Clark tried so hard to find for Jon to give to Jon and instead of seeing it as a way for Damian to outshine him, Clark sees it as another gift from Damian, a friend for Jon.

The Kents have matching holiday sweaters. Oh my gosh, that’s just the cutest and best thing ever. I bet it was Clark’s idea too.

…the ship that sails itself.

My kinks include Clark in a comfy looking ugly xmas sweater, being at peace, having a nice time