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Winter Solstice: The Feast Of Juul, Thor And Why Pagans Celebrate The Shortest Day Of The Year
Telegraph UK ^
| Wednesday, December 20, 2017
| Cameron Macphail
Posted on 12/20/2017 12:40:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
“When it gets cold, they can switch to down underwear.”
</ rimshot! >
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posted on
12/20/2017 1:50:32 PM PST
by
Ken H
(Best election ever!)
To: truth_seeker
Winter Solstice means it is getting better, light and temp wise. Well the days, very slowly, start getting longer after the Winter solstice, but here in the Mid-Atlantic, the worst of the winter is yet to come. December generally isnt too bad, but January and February and even March can be brutal, very cold and with the heaviest snows. But if we get a blizzard in March, at least theres a good chance that it wont be dark when I drive home from work through it. :)
To: Ken H
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:11:05 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
It's an old song, the words got switched to make the rhyme work -- so, now you know:
"Troll the ancient Yule-tide Carol..."
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:28:15 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
Boooo. They want me to subscribe in order to read the whole article.
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:28:29 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la, la, la
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:30:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
The etymological curiosity in the word troll, sometimes sung as toll or trawl, is especially interesting, as it reflects both Anglo-Saxon roots and the more familiar mage in later Norse influences. In the sense of the carol, it reflects Old English origins, prior to the arrival of the Vikings, to go about or to stroll. The connection with fishing, a drag-net, also extends from this source. The sense of a monstrous creature has old Germanic roots and though the English had their own words for native orcs and demons, they borrowed the word of the newcomer. Perhaps the two meanings again converge in the ultimate sense of a horrid individual who is trawling for attention with nasty comments. English did borrow a lot of basic vocabulary from the Scandinavian languages, and interestingly whats been retained of -- or edged out by -- Norse terminology are words with an overwhelmingly negative connotations, which probably bespeaks their uneasy cohabitation: anger, awkward, blunder, bug, crook, cur, death, dirt, dregs, gawk, heathen, Hell, irk, mire, muck, muggy, odd, outlaw, rotten, skull, slaughter, thwart, ugly, weak and wrong -- to name a few. Of course, there are numerous exceptions, too -- like that word Yule, for the midwinter months and associated festivities, which was later appropriated by the Christians. |
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:33:36 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Bigg Red
Yeah, I know, that's why we only have an excerpt here. Tell them to have a Merry Christmas, that'll destroy their blood pressure.
Oh, but wait -- turns out that the whole version is in the Google cache, and the graphics are all quite nice. Haven't had time to read the rest, just found out. Sure hope no one does anything rash, like post the link. Dammit, I've been hacked.
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:40:05 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
"just when I start to enjoy summer, the dang days start to get shorter again."
Yeah, THAT really stinks...
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:41:05 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: Bigg Red
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:47:23 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: Paladin2
The back to school stuff seems to go out at the stores right after the July 4th stuff gets clearanced, and not long before the end-of-summer Labor Day cookout specials. I guess the way to fool ourselves is to observe the summer and winter solstices as “midsummer” and “midwinter”, even though the worse of winter is yet to hit us, and the heat of summer hasn’t yet started. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date, blah blah blah. I love Shakespeare, other than all the cliches. /rimshot
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:54:25 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: Mears
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:56:35 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
To: SunkenCiv
The Erf’s temperatures seem to lag the solar input by about a month.
Radiant heat in the middle of the (Winter) day is nice though.
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posted on
12/20/2017 2:58:00 PM PST
by
Paladin2
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
12/20/2017 3:12:02 PM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Vacate the chair! Ryan must go. Dump McConnman, too.)
To: SunkenCiv
It ain't a real Christmas party until the pagans break out the goat leggings.
To: sparklite2; babble-on
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posted on
12/20/2017 3:18:02 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
That’s called dressing down.
To: babble-on
The article still doesn’t say why......or what they are celebrating for. Not that I care.
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posted on
12/20/2017 5:25:43 PM PST
by
caww
(freeen)
To: Yo-Yo
Even in the Southern hemisphere the winter solstice means the days are going to get longer. Just that it happens in June.
Inti Raymi - the Inca festival of the sun.
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posted on
12/20/2017 5:27:56 PM PST
by
x
To: Redcitizen
This might help...lololol
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posted on
12/20/2017 5:38:24 PM PST
by
caww
(freeen)
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