Kendall Giles

Yule is celebrated in most countries even today in various forms—the gifting, Santa Clause, sleighs and reindeer, decorated trees, greenery, wreaths, candles, holly berries, mistletoe—all these traditions derive from Yule and can be found notions of Christmas happening in a manger somewhere in the Middle East, as explains an Icelandic high chieftan of the Pagan Society: “Yule is a heathen tradition,” Hilmarsson says…. The most important aspect of those twelve days is that our world and the world of the Gods and Goddesses are together, and it is a blessing to be close to them and have a connection — it is at this time that we look back over the old year and make oaths for the new year.” . . . → Read More: Glad Yule