It is bittersweet seeing Mr. Tico again. He is missed but it is wonderful to know his little self lives on to enjoy Yule again in whatever new form he has taken. Happy Blessings to you.

As a new student of the ancient I thank you for your clear and easily understood presentation. Happy Yule !

@jasonbrowning5280

2 жыл бұрын

God yul

Mr Tico looks quite comfortable in front of the tree!

@ArithHärger

5 жыл бұрын

I hope he was happy ^^

You're adorable. Also, thank you for the info. I'm learning more about the history of Yule and the significance of the traditions. Very interesting to learn about the significance of the colors of ornaments (especially red).

@RAVENMoonTarot

5 жыл бұрын

It is amazing I have researched it alot but still am again being I'm pagan and do have Celtic Scottish Norse blood European and itallion Cherokee alot of stuff ha ha

Your sense of humor is great lol thank you for the knowledge & laughter hahaha

Really good guests I must say, Thorstein is quite the character! Tico is a bit shy isn't he? not very talkative :P

@ArithHärger

7 жыл бұрын

lol yes, you are quite right. Mr. Tico is a very private old fellow :p

I will never look at a Christmas tree the same way again. But I thank you for that.

I love this !! Great Yule Arith ! Great Yule everyone !

@ArithHärger

7 жыл бұрын

To you too my friend! :D

@audhumbla6927

Жыл бұрын

@@ArithHärger Doing this to ANY OTHER people would be called racist. So WHY does this portugese man, think its ok to dress up, mock, and spread fake history, of a people that he is not a part of whatsoever????

always is good to hear from you. tusen takk

@ArithHärger

7 жыл бұрын

Hello dead friend, how are you? Thank you for the support, I wish you a merry Yuletide.

I’m starting to see your videos, thanks a lot. I send greetings from Mexico.

I'm glad to see your cat on this earlier video! Great information. Love it.

Merry Christmas pagans!!!!

God Jöl and Merry Christmas Arith and everyone. 🎄

Glad yul to you friend. I hope you have a great harvest next year in whatever way it comes.

if i believed in a god i'd imagine the sun would be a good place to start. the equinox is recognized by every ancient religion and an athiest can certainly relate to it in an honest way also. every wild animal also knows the warmth and light. the sun is the common denominator for all life. yea it's kind of the sun is god to all creatures and organized religion is the path for man, of the different cult followers of odin, jesus, mohammed, budda etc. the sun goes up and depression goes down. it is jan. 8 , 2018. we gained one minute of light today and i am grateful. thank yew arith very enjoyable show. take care gare

It's good to see Mr Tico again and of course, the most important man, Mr Thorstein. It is now the time to prepare for this year's Yule and to look forward to the new year. I really hope that the coming year is kinder to you my friend, and to all. The only improvements that I can reccommend is more of Airk and let me help you pronounce solstice, it is better to say the second syllable as stis rather than stice. I'm glad that this video was on my reccommendations list as I can't remember if I saw it before, however it was worth watching again if I had.

Great info, thanks!

Thank you, it is very interesting ...

Excellent!

You speak English so nicely ! Love your accent !!!

Loved this video :) added you on Facebook under Greig:)

Very, very interesting! I’m wondering if the goddess Cailleach had a place in the celebration of winter?

as a filipino whom have lived in the tropical philippines for most of my entire life...the winter season is something very exotic for me, now during christmastime I always get to have baby jesus and santa as the most common figures in the season but exploring more of the pagan and more ancient pre christian side of it makes it more endearing for me.. I didn't know that yule came from the word where it means -wheel which very much connotes to the wheel of life or the circle of life, the cycles of birth, death and rebirth...got a bit tired with the commercial and materialistic side of xmas though.. and spirituality and paganism is a breath of fresh air

@awakenedhigherself9961

3 жыл бұрын

Even from me im from Houston Texas northern hemisphere in America, were typically a tropical climate from April through November 1st, we just had a severe freeze here back in feburary where the temperature dropped to negative 14 degrees I like to celebrate Yule by lighting Logs and eating a big dinner

Happy Julfest Mr Tico ^-^

What is the traditional type of wood to burn for the Yule log ?

@ArithHärger

5 жыл бұрын

In the UK in many Yule traditions people burn Ash twigs. It depends on the region and traditions really, as well as the purpose. Traditionally its the Oak, Yew and Aspen, but in the great majority people seem to prefer Oak

Your thumbnail looks like the perfect model moderns would look to for wisdom.

good Yule Arith! 😘🎅

@ArithHärger

7 жыл бұрын

Hey! How are you? Good Yule to you too! Have a wonderful season! ^^

@conroecurio5145

7 жыл бұрын

Doing well all things considered, Still want that portrait, It can wait, for when you have time. message me on Facebook sometime. hugs

I was just going to say "You've lost some weight, mate!" until I noticed Mr. Tico & "2016". A very MERRY Saturnalia to you & your memories :D

Adorei! A propósito desta época tão esperada que nos dá esperança e motivos para desfrutar a vida, está fantástico! boa dicção, o ambiente, um bichano! e o convidado Viking, grande figura! Parabéns continua

@ArithHärger

7 жыл бұрын

Muito agradecido! :P Beijinhos! :D

@teresafigueiredo

7 жыл бұрын

Está com muita imaginação!

Ahahah, quite nice guests :)

Whats the last word you say at the end

The associations for the colours of the ornaments is a great insight. Is that yours? If not, where's that cited from?

@bronzantilium7699

5 жыл бұрын

I always thought they were symbolic of the winter berries of holly and mistletoe. For my mental health I think I will continue looking at them that way!

I have recently been able to embrace my pagan faith. Is there a traditional prayer that is used when lighting the Yule candles?

I knew you were a cat person! 😸 Real men love cats.

Well Arith, there is a celebration on the longest night of the year in the eastern culture, originally Persian. In Iran, it is called Yalda, which seems very similar to the Yule! This ceremony dates back to more than 2000 years ago in Iran. The people still celebrate this night in Iran and some other countries. But the similarity of the Persian term (Yalda) with Yule is really interesting for me. I reckon these cultural similarities are not accidental. But I cannot find how did it happen.

@alicehallam7949

4 жыл бұрын

Saeed, you might want to look into the world's original monotheistic religion called Zoroastrianism of Iran. Modern Persians of Iran are their descendants and they worship around an altar of fire, which is a sacred force. Zoroastrians also have a connection to Hindus (they fled to India when the Muslims arrived in Persia). Hindus also have a winter solstice celebration. You're right! No coincidences!

I would show this video in a classroom

If it came to Human Sacrifice do you have any leads on how they would decide who they would sacrifice just trying to get a better idea of what it would have been like to live back then this is interesting

Putting presence in a box - make something with love, kinda like chanelling energy through or into a talisman or similar? Sadly, nowadays the presents are made, fashioned or imbued with anything, no presence in the presents. ;-)

How about a video on how you would make a vegetarian Yule fest, or just some recipes? :)

@sykotikmommy

4 жыл бұрын

In ancient times there were no vegetarians in Europe. I'd say to convict things for yourself.

@alicehallam7949

4 жыл бұрын

Roast root vegetables and overwintering vegetables. These would be turnips, carrots, rutabegas, etc. And hard types of squash like pumpkins, acorn squash and butternut. Also incorporate tree nuts like chestnuts and filberts also called hazelnuts (which grow in Northern Europe) for Yule. These are Yule foods because by this time of the year food was getting scarce and these foods keep in a root cellar (cold cellar you can find out how to build one properly) so you will not starve before the early spring vegetables start growing. So they are celebratory.

Odinn? Bodies on the trees?? Now I need some new decorations! I don't suppose you can give us a visual reference for that, like stone carvings or manuscripts? The manuscripts were PR tools also for the early Christians, so accuracy of actual practices might be questioned. What would Snorri do?

Hey Tico ..meow... I can get thorstein a job if he don't mind lifting heavy bottles of water....

So if I'm in love with someone who is a pagan who follows this Norse path but I'm Christian/catholic, how would it work out if I want to be with her?

@freelanceart1019

5 жыл бұрын

Leave your religion by becoming a Gnostic Christian.

@herostorm9802

5 жыл бұрын

FreelanceArt101 what's that? Like what do they worship and all that

@sykotikmommy

4 жыл бұрын

Start researching and watching Arith's videos. Welcome to opening your eyes to the truth.

@alicehallam7949

4 жыл бұрын

@@freelanceart1019 yes

@alicehallam7949

4 жыл бұрын

Gnostic Christianity (related to mysticism) was banned by the Roman Catholic church about the time the Roman church last reworked the contents of the Bible. My take on this is that the church could not control the mystics who spoke in tongues (unknown or ancient languages), had spiritual possesions in the presence of holy beings, and had visions and rapturous trances. I'm not sure when she lived exactly but look into the Catholic mystic Santa Teresa of Avila (Avila, Spain).

Tico

@ArithHärger

3 жыл бұрын

My greatest friend :)

Was the adoption of christianity in northorn europe a bloodless transition. Where thes human sacrefice common outside the hundred years preseding the entry of christianity to northon europ or was common for thousands of years?

@sykotikmommy

4 жыл бұрын

The adoption of christianity in northern Europe was far from bloodless.

I like the cat. Thorstein reminds me of a Sponge Bob episode. :)

it's me Dreama...just playing with my online name in case you did not recognize it ha ha amaerd is Dreama backwards ha ha

Oh, I did not know you were vegetarian until I came back to watch this early video! Cool! (I am a vegan, though I am not a pagan)

@ArithHärger

2 жыл бұрын

In the meantime I leveled up to vegan hehehe. Cheers!

@blakewinter1657

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArithHärger Ah very nice! Also, I miss seeing Mr. Tico in videos. Maybe the new rescued kitties will start to appear in more videos?

Well, Arith, I wouldn't call the Christian monks incorporating Heathen traditions into Christianity to ease conversion "smart." Sneaky, maybe, but not smart.

@sykotikmommy

4 жыл бұрын

@Wotan Mit Uns I completely agree that it was smart as in it made it a little easier for us to find our ancestral traditions a little easier, despite their attempt to erase them.

Don't forget about the yule boar on who everybody made pledges off of him live before he became the feast.

I love this video it is not cringe haha.

Ah ha! I have discovered the beginning of the great Mr Thorstein. I think I might stick with putting holly berries on my Yule tree though... Much nicer than blood.

Fact: Yule was Not celebrated on the the Winter Solstice. It was celebrated on the the Full Moon following the first New Moon After the Winter Solstice. King Haakon changed the celebrated day to the Winter Solstice so pagans would have to celebrate the same day as Christians. Christmas was celebrated on the Winter Soltice according to the old Julian calander, this was changed to the 24/25 with the Gregorian Callender. Yule was a 3 day holiday, not 12.

@ArithHärger

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I have actually revised all of this in this video right here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/pYGelrKmpMyXmrA.html&t

Sand-da-Klods.

Many ancient sources say Christ was born on December 25. Yule was the 21st. So, Yule was moved to Dec. 25, not Christmas moved to Yule. Saturnalia and Sol Invictus were 4th century A.D. festivals, more recent than Christmas. Instead of trying to denigrate Christianity by saying a cross or a feast day could "easily convert pagans" (whom you are thereby saying are stupid and weak), you should talk about the fire wheels of Yule.

😂😂😂😸

Jesus is the Sun. Son. On 12/25 the SUN goes into the constellation Crux. Then turns it’s path back to “Aries “ or spring. This is the Jesus story. The path of the Sun. I celebrate Yule by a fire on the Solstice, a Fine Meal on The 24th. Gnomes and Lights and a Tree. Gifts and a Meaningful toast to try and get my wife to shed a tear.

Stein is Jewish, is that a Nordic Jew!

Mr Thorstein, there are Muslims in your country that need the old Viking treatment

@peterkropotkin1158

2 жыл бұрын

He should be more worried about the neo ñ@zzï$ appropriating his culture and pushing this rhetoric