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the pagan winter blowout that Christianity quietly annexed and rebranded with better lighting.
means An old-fashioned word for the Christmas season, the festive stretch of midwinter celebration.
from From Old English 'geōl' (Yule), the name of a midwinter festival once kept across the Germanic and Norse north — preserved today in Old Norse 'jól' — joined to 'tide' in its older sense of 'time' or 'season' (the same 'tide' that lingers in 'Eastertide' and 'noontide'). So 'yuletide' literally means 'Yule-time.' The deeper roots of 'Yule' itself are genuinely murky; etymologists trace it to a Germanic ancestor but cannot say for certain what it first meant.
- pre-christian
- Norse Yule predates Christmas by centuries.
- yule log
- Originally a whole tree burned for days.
- twelve days
- Feasting ran from solstice into January.
- word root
- From Old Norse jol, a midwinter festival.
christmas day — december 25th celebration across christian cultures worldwide since 336 ad
twelve days of christmas — december 25 through january 5, traditionally marked by the english carol from the 1700s
yule log burning — scandinavian and british tradition of burning a log through winter solstice, documented in germanic pagan customs