You may not know, or maybe you do, but today is the Feast of Saint Lucy, and it is an important day in Sweden. Almost 30 years ago, we had a Swedish foreign exchange student who came for a year in our family and she kind of celebrated it a bit with us: she made the safron buns and had some candles on or something. We ate the buns during our game of D&Dr and this was so perfect. Anyway, Christmas is on its way and I thought that Saint Lucy's Day deserved a post. So here is a crash course on how Sweden celebrates it:
Very entertaining and informative! But they missed out on identifying the true pagan origins of Sankta Lucia -- she is the ancient Goddess of the Winter Solstice, bringing light back to the world after the longest night. December 13th, under the Old Calendar, corresponded to the Winter Solstice.
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