My apologies for not commenting earlier, but here goes... Still alive, still around? I remember thinking I need to comment to this some time, but lack of online time is a bane normally. Been going around trying to poke some people I haven't seen in ages again, among other things. As to your post, to me it's mostly everyone's game these days, since you're politically correct only if you don't wish anyone anything but happy holidays or something, or if you take into account Hanukkah and Kwanzaa and whatever else there is. Christmas is called joulu in Finnish, btw, pronounced with the y-style j-letter (ours always being that). So it's like yo-loo(h) of sorts, obviously relating to Yule
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oooooooOOO! Lots of pretties on totalrecall!!! Thanks for the Yuletide gift!
Glad to hear from you again!
Oak Lord and the Holly Lord or the Oak King and the Holly King are a Wiccan/Pagan image of the New Year (at Winter Solstice) vanquishing the old year. I've also heard of it manifest as the Cock Robin and King Wren.... the wren being the old year, killed by the upstart Robin Red-breast who is the new year.
Hmmmmm.... an upstart young Robin..... did he have a Saracen sidekick I wonder? :)
I have been away from LJ FOREVER it seems! I have gotten caught up in other sights.... and when I heard a rumour that LJ was not going to have any "Powers that Be" maintaining it anymore... well I was scared off I guess. Have you noticed a decline in maintenance?
I am glad you brought me back! I must make all the rounds now!
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Thanks for the Yuletide gift!
Glad to hear from you again!
Oak Lord and the Holly Lord or the Oak King and the Holly King are a Wiccan/Pagan image of the New Year (at Winter Solstice) vanquishing the old year. I've also heard of it manifest as the Cock Robin and King Wren.... the wren being the old year, killed by the upstart Robin Red-breast who is the new year.
Hmmmmm.... an upstart young Robin..... did he have a Saracen sidekick I wonder? :)
:)
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Are you alive and well? I thought you'd posted in my recent absence but this is from last year, not this year. :/
Oh, pardon me, wrong icon. For you I need to use the other Alan Cumming one. Did you read about Bacchae on your side of the fandoms then? ;)
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I have been away from LJ FOREVER it seems! I have gotten caught up in other sights.... and when I heard a rumour that LJ was not going to have any "Powers that Be" maintaining it anymore... well I was scared off I guess. Have you noticed a decline in maintenance?
I am glad you brought me back! I must make all the rounds now!
:)
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I am just returning to LJ too!!
I personally like the idea of Yuletide.
Yum...eggnog!!
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I'm trying to make the rounds of LJ, Shelfari, etc.....
Away from the computer for too long!
:)
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