I have just bought my calendar. I hate to call it christmas calendar. The christians have tried to coopt the pagan yuletide under the motto: if you can't beat them, join them and then corrupt and coopt them from the inside.
They took over the Roman saturnalia feast, they coopted the 25th of December(and 24th as well), the birthday of Mithras and falsely claimed it was the birth of Jesus. All in the name of political intrigue. They have tried to make "nissen" or "tomten" into Santa Claus or saint Nicholaus. And the Tree which the pagan Europeans took into their homes to celebrate that it is dark and snowy outside, but soon it will be spring and crops will grow. An on top of the tree to further insult the old benevolent pagan tradition the christians place either a star or an angel in the most prominent place thus mocking the true spirit of yule.
Yule is the seasonal celebration that after the longest night of darkness the days will grow longer( By the vikings the "juleblot" was celebrated for about a week from the 21st of December with good food and the giving of gifts in other words bestowing good will on one's fellow man). Still the christians (who use an instrument of torture as their chosen symbol - the Cross) have not been able to wipe out this benevolent and life-worshipping pagan feast. And so they never shall! With all their mutterings against the commercialization of christmas and their incessant pleading for a return to the true meaning of christmas, not realizing that we are returning to the true meaning of christmas, the pagan life-affirming meaning of christmas. And we rally to the chant of - I love the smell of commerce in the morning, baby!!! We are returning to the old ways.
I have bought a calendar with no angels on it and no Jesus Christ. It contains ice-skating hippos in front of a tree. It's really really cute. And I must add, it contains lots of delicious chocolates which I look forward to devouring with all-consuming pagan life-affirming joy.
