{"collection":"Internet Book of Shadows","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bos_bos509_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bos_bos509_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bos_bos509_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos509.htm","summary":"This is a collection of neo-Pagan/Wiccan Yule songs from the *Internet Book of Shadows* (1999), a collaboratively assembled online text. The songs are parodies \u2014 new lyrics set to familiar Christian Christmas carols (including \"Silent Night,\" \"O Come All Ye Faithful,\" \"Joy to the World,\" and others) \u2014 rewritten to celebrate the Winter Solstice, the Holly King, and Wiccan deities (the Goddess in her triple form, the Horned God/Herne). The central theological argument running through the collection is that modern Christmas traditions (decorated trees, wassail bowls, wreaths, candles, Yule logs) are pagan in origin, and that Christians unknowingly celebrate what pagans celebrate deliberately. Several songs (\"Share the Light,\" \"Christmas Time Is Pagan!\") take an explicitly ecumenical or triumphalist tone, claiming that all winter holidays point to the same eternal truth and that paganism predates and underlies Christianity. The collection is a practical liturgical resource \u2014 these are intended to be sung in circle rituals \u2014 while also functioning as a statement of neo-Pagan identity and historical reclamation. Readers interested in the intersection of modern Wicca with popular culture, or in how new religious movements adapt majority-culture texts for their own practice, will find it a concise, unscholarly but direct primary source.","tags":["Book of Shadows","House Cleansing Ritual","Neopagan Practice","Wiccan Ritual Instructions"],"text":null,"title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Yule Songes","tradition":"Internet Book of Shadows","translated_text":null,"word_count":1313}