Fuck Halloween. Winter Solstice, the longest day of darkness, is the real Pagan goth's holiday, and it's happening this Sunday. Our friend Adriane Schramm explains this holy day as remembered from her childhood.
What would Christmas be like without Winter Solstice? If you ask my dad (that's him and my mom up there in that photo, by the way), he'd tell you that actually Christmas wouldn't even exist. The Christians were jealous of all the partying the Pagans were up to so they stole the winter hoedown idea. They lied about Jesus's b-day, added on the irresistible allure of more presents than you will ever see all year, introduced miracles and a charitable, roundy mysterion heard through the walls creeping and howling. Basically, they revolved an entire year and worthwhile earthly human existence around one single day. Tight agenda there. So the Christians stole the celebration, and the Pagan solstice party got a little dull and dingy ever since. There was no competition! Pagans lost a lot of the raging that kept the celebration sexy. To this day, the Solstice looks humdrum and healthy, rather than trippy, naked, and pilly. Good thing some of the hooded and cloaky crept into secret corners and kept the original celebration lit.
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