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Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #112 :: PathWalkers.Net Interactive :: Helping you along your path PathWalkers.Net Interactive Helping you along your path Main Navigation · Home · Main Homepage Community · Community BoS · Downloads · Forums · FAQ · Image Gallery · Reviews · Web Links Site Information · Top 10 List · Search Forums - Message Board · CookBook · In The News · Member Introductions · Hanging Out · Humour & Quizes Users Area · My Account · Members List · Calander · Submit to BoS · Write A Review · Submit a Link · Ask Lady Muse Guestbook · View Our Guestbook · Sign Our Guestbook · Logout User Stats Newsletters: Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #112 Posted by: Nyxks on Dec 04, 2005 - 01:39 PM PWN Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #112 Newsletter 12-05-2005 to 12-11-2005 Dec 24, 2005 - 05:10 PM Homepage :: Downloads :: WebLinks :: FAQ Search Greetings and Welcome to the Hundred and Twelfth edition of the free PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter. It is my pleasure to bring to you this weekly mailing list, of information, news, and offers. ========================================================================== TABLE OF CONTENTS WEEKLY SPECIAL - Yule - Solstice WEEKLY ASTROLOGY REPORT GENERAL INFORMATION - Winter Solstice Woman RECIPE - Apricot Caramel Sauce BOOK REVIEW - Spirit of the Witch CLASSIFIEDS ========================================================================== WEEKLY SPECIAL - Yule - Solstice Our Christian friends are often quite surprised at how enthusiastically we Pagans celebrate the 'Christmas' season. Even though we prefer to use the word 'Yule', and our celebrations may peak a few days BEFORE the 25th, we nonetheless follow many of the traditional customs of the season: decorated trees, carolling, presents, Yule logs, and mistletoe. We might even go so far as putting up a 'Nativity set', though for us the three central characters are likely to be interpreted as Mother Nature, Father Time, and the Baby Sun-God. None of this will come as a surprise to anyone who knows the true history of the holiday, of course. In fact, if truth be known, the holiday of Christmas has always been more Pagan than Christian, with it's associations of Nordic divination, Celtic fertility rites, and Roman Mithraism. That is why both Martin Luther and John Calvin abhorred it, why the Puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it (to them, no day of the year could be more holy than the Sabbath), and why it was even made ILLEGAL in Boston! The holiday was already too closely associated with the birth of older Pagan gods and heroes. And many of them (like Oedipus, Theseus, Hercules, Perseus, Jason, Dionysus, Apollo, Mithra, Horus and even Arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was uncomfortably close to that of Jesus. And to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the Christian Savior. Ultimately, of course, the ho liday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. It is the Winter Solstice that is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. It is the birthday of the new Sun King, the Son of God -- by whatever name you choose to call him. On this darkest of nights, the Goddess becomes the Great Mother and once again gives birth. And it makes perfect poetic sense that on the longest night of the winter, 'the dark night of our souls', there springs the new spark of hope, the Sacred Fire, the Light of the World, the Coel Coeth. That is why Pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as Christians. Perhaps even more so, as the Christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. There had been a tr adition in the West that Mary bore the child Jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could seem to decide on the month. Finally, in 320 C.E., the Catholic Fathers in Rome decided to make it December, in an effort to co-opt the Mithraic celebration of the Romans and the Yule celebrations of the Celts and Saxons. There was never much pretense that the date they finally chose was historically accurate. Shepherds just don't 'tend their flocks by night' in the high pastures in the dead of winter! But if one wishes to use http://www.pathwalkers.net/interactive/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=451 (1 of 7) [12/25/2005 12:12:03 AM] Related links · More about PWN Newsletter · News by Nyxks Most read story in PWN Newsletter: Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #104
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Posted by: Nyxks on Dec 04, 2005 - 01:39 PM<br />
PWN Weekly PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter #112<br />
Newsletter 12-05-2005 to 12-11-2005<br />
Dec 24, 2005 - 05:10 PM<br />
Homepage :: Downloads :: WebLinks :: FAQ<br />
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Greetings and Welcome to the Hundred and Twelfth edition of the free PathWalkers.Net e-Newsletter.<br />
It is my pleasure to bring to you this weekly mailing list, of information, news, and offers.<br />
==========================================================================<br />
TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
WEEKLY SPECIAL - Yule - Solstice<br />
WEEKLY ASTROLOGY REPORT<br />
GENERAL INFORMATION - Winter Solstice Woman<br />
RECIPE - Apricot Caramel Sauce<br />
BOOK REVIEW - Spirit of the Witch<br />
CLASSIFIEDS<br />
==========================================================================<br />
WEEKLY SPECIAL - Yule - Solstice<br />
Our Christian friends are often quite surprised at how enthusiastically we Pagans celebrate the<br />
'Christmas' season. Even though we prefer to use the word 'Yule', and our celebrations may peak a few<br />
days BEFORE the 25th, we nonetheless follow many of the traditional customs of the season:<br />
decorated trees, carolling, presents, Yule logs, and mistletoe. We might even go so far as putting up a<br />
'Nativity set', though for us the three central characters are likely to be interpreted as Mother Nature,<br />
Father Time, and the Baby Sun-God. None of this will come as a surprise to anyone who knows the true<br />
history of the holiday, of course.<br />
In fact, if truth be known, the holiday of Christmas has always been more Pagan than Christian, with it's<br />
associations of Nordic divination, Celtic fertility rites, and Roman Mithraism. That is why both Martin<br />
Luther and John Calvin abhorred it, why the Puritans refused to acknowledge it, much less celebrate it<br />
(to them, no day of the year could be more holy than the Sabbath), and why it was even made<br />
ILLEGAL in Boston! The holiday was already too closely associated with the birth of older Pagan<br />
gods and heroes. And many of them (like Oedipus, Theseus, Hercules, Perseus, Jason, Dionysus,<br />
Apollo, Mithra, Horus and even Arthur) possessed a narrative of birth, death, and resurrection that was<br />
uncomfortably close to that of Jesus. And to make matters worse, many of them pre-dated the Christian<br />
Savior.<br />
Ultimately, of course, the ho liday is rooted deeply in the cycle of the year. It is the Winter Solstice that<br />
is being celebrated, seed-time of the year, the longest night and shortest day. It is the birthday of the<br />
new Sun King, the Son of God -- by whatever name you choose to call him. On this darkest of nights,<br />
the Goddess becomes the Great Mother and once again gives birth. And it makes perfect poetic sense<br />
that on the longest night of the winter, 'the dark night of our souls', there springs the new spark of hope,<br />
the Sacred Fire, the Light of the World, the Coel Coeth.<br />
That is why Pagans have as much right to claim this holiday as Christians. Perhaps even more so, as<br />
the Christians were rather late in laying claim to it, and tried more than once to reject it. There had<br />
been a tr adition in the West that Mary bore the child Jesus on the twenty-fifth day, but no one could<br />
seem to decide on the month. Finally, in 320 C.E., the Catholic Fathers in Rome decided to make it<br />
December, in an effort to co-opt the Mithraic celebration of the Romans and the Yule celebrations of<br />
the Celts and Saxons.<br />
There was never much pretense that the date they finally chose was historically accurate. Shepherds<br />
just don't 'tend their flocks by night' in the high pastures in the dead of winter! But if one wishes to use<br />
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