Yule Festival
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A Yule Festival is a Germanic festival connected to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon ("Mothers' Night").
- See: Christmas and Holiday Season, Neopaganism, Theistic Satanism, Germanic Paganism, Modern Paganism, Early Germanic Calendars, Christmastide, Quarter Days, Wheel of The Year, Winter Festival, Christmas.
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2021
- (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule Retrieved:2021-12-25.
- Yule (also called Jul, Julblot, jól, jólablót, joulu, "Yule time" or "Yule season") is a festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples. Scholars have connected the original celebrations of Yule to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon ("Mothers' Night").
Later departing from its pagan roots, Yule underwent Christianised reformulation, resulting in the term Christmastide. Some present-day Christmas customs and traditions such as the Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing, and others may have connections to older pagan Yule traditions. Cognates to Yule are still used in the Scandinavian languages as well as in Finnish and Estonian to describe Christmas and other festivals occurring during the winter holiday season.
- Yule (also called Jul, Julblot, jól, jólablót, joulu, "Yule time" or "Yule season") is a festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples. Scholars have connected the original celebrations of Yule to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon ("Mothers' Night").