The Ten of Cups

angrybirdhat:

Harmony. Joy. In one of the last recording sessions before
the final implosion, the Beatles got together and harmonised one last time,
three voices singing as one about the simplest beauty of the world, the wind
and the sky. The Ten of Cups is that sort of moment, one of pure harmony and
love. This can be specific love found in marriage and family, or the more
general all-encompassing love of the universe. It seems to radiate outwards,
touching everything and uplifting your spirits into happiness, deeper than the
satisfaction of the Nine of Cups. Here, the stars align perfectly, and the
world sings. 

Love is all, love is you

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Edda-for-dummies’ Fenno-Swedish Julkalender?

edda-for-dummies:

trollkatt:

edda-for-dummies:

You all probably know the idea of an advent calendar, I don’t have to explain it to you. So I was thinking that it might be a fun way to provide content for December and to showcase a some old and new Nordic holiday traditions to make a little Nordic “julkalender” for you all.

The contents would definitely not be strictly Viking Age-centric, because the modern jul/jól/joulu or Nordic Christmas is a fusion of so many different historical traditions. I think it would be a disservice to the culture to try to strip centuries of history away just to make hazy speculations of a possible feast culture in a time we can’t reach in any relatively thorough way. I want to include both pagan, catholic christo-pagan and protestant christian traditions, because they’re all pretty tightly intervowen at this point.

I think it might still be interesting for you to get some little “fun facts” about the holiday season up here as it is today. And to be fair, I think it might even be GOOD for some of you, if you’re foreign, to learn about the differences with winter up here and out there! 😉

My focus would be most on Finnish and Swedish traditions, because those are the ones I know best, but there are some traditions from other Nordic and even Baltic countries I want to give a nod to.

Let me know if you’re interested! The julkalender posts would be little illustrations with a few short paragraphs of description of mentioned tradition. Also, if you’re Nordic, feel free to drop me your favourite tradition to be featured!

Lussi, of course! I made a couple of posts last year. One on the 12th and one on the 13th. Lussi is what initiates the month of jul to me. I also grew up with mumming (gå julebukk) during Boxing-week (romjula, i.e. mellandagarna) back home in Norway. Not sure there is much about it on the ‘net, because people don’t do it anymore. Alas… 😦 On the western coast of Norway they have a more Christian mumming tradition called stjernespill, where the mummers are called star boys (stjernegutter). This is a really old tradition, with its beginning way back in Early Christianity, and it used to be found many places in Europe (maybe still is some places?) – and I see now they are also found in in Finland as tiernapojat!

Lucia festivities are definitely on the list! Huge thanks for letting me know that there’s a stjärngossar/tiernapojat corresponding tradition in Norway too!

I’ll probably try to fit something about the julspel/songs/traditions focused around
horses

on Staffansdag/Tapaninpäivä (St Stephen’s) or Boxing day because that’s been a big thing in Finland and Sweden, but I might give the star boys their own day as well!

Also thanks to other repliers – goats, definitely, will be featured on at least two or three separate days, because there’s a lot about them 😀