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[Dekalb_Blues]

ALLE SCHWEINE IN EINEN EINZIGEN SCHWEINESTALL ZU STECKEN 
-- TEIL 1 (VON 2)
[Putting all your pigs in one pigsty; going the whole hog]

For the wedic 'europeans' here are some explanations about the rites of christmas (german):

[YT video: "Die Bedeutung der Raunächte" ("The Importance of the Raw/Magical-Nights")]

....After the twelve holy nights the three goddesses came by... and blessed each house for the coming year, before the strong golden-bristled boar of the benevolent Freyr pushed the yearly wheel with his power again. (The Jul boar lives on in the form of the lucky pig made of marzipan, which we give away at the New Year).

Due-diligence dislosure of genetic bias: Being of largely German and Swedish heritage (e.g., my maternal grandmother, born in the 1880s in Brooklyn in the Deutsche-town of Flatbush, toured the U.S. and Europe very successfully as a professional operatic soloist performing at the then-ubiquitous local Sängervereinigungen  [Singers' associations], giving recitals of sacred, classical, and romantic Lieder [songs] by the great German/Austrian composers, as well as Lieder des gemeinen Volkes [Songs of the common folk; folk songs]; meine liebe Mutter [my dear Mother], born in 1931, also in Brooklyn, was the first of my German ancestors for whom English was their first language -- though by that time they had been in America for three generations), I perhaps have a certain built-in affinity for these types of "pagan" (read:  ) carryings-on that deal with various turning-points in now-widely-ignored and even mocked planetary rhythms. 

In many important ways the saying Das Geheimnis ist im Blut [The secret is in the blood] is true; of course, there's a wide chasm between that and, say, the Hitler Youth slogan Blut und Ehre [Blood and honor] or the supposedly-more-grown-up Blut und Ruhm [Blood and glory], which understandably segue via all-too-easy stages into Blut und Geld [Blood and wealth] and Geld und Ruhm [Wealth and glory] and Blut und Kriege für Ruhm und Reichtum [Blood and war for fame and fortune].  Which tend to return us to a Dienst-an-sich-selbst / Macht-ist-alles [Service-to-self / Power-is-everything], Blut und Wärme [Bloody and hot-headed] state of endeavour.

"Wer seine Hände in Blut badet, wird sie mit Tränen waschen müssen."

"He who bathes his hands in blood will have to wash them with tears."

RAUHNÄCHTE (Magic Nights): THE TWELVE NIGHTS AFTER CHRISTMAS

(Contemporary note of interesting coincidence: 12 nights after our modern Christmas brings us up to about January 6th... the traditional date for the feast-day of Epiphany. An epiphany (from the ancient Greek ἐπιφάνεια, epiphanea, "manifestation, striking appearance") is an experience of a sudden and striking realization.)

Sonargöltr (alpha herd-boar sacrifice) => today's Jul (Yule) boar smorgasbörd

The Revenge of the European Boars (and even moar boar-revenge has European Man bristling over the ignominy of it all) 

(Dutch-history buffs will grimace appreciatively in relief that no further attempt at a play on "Boer War" was made.)





"Such a world is not governed by physics or logic but by belief and narrative resolution."

"Hogswatchnight" (i.e., the 32nd of December) and its observance on that singular Discworld whose One Semi-Infinite Creator was the late Sir Terry Pratchett.

 Susan, Dutchess of Sto-Helit (aka Susan Death, being the adopted-grand-daughter and apprentice of Death, and surrogate Death during one fine Hogswatch-tide while Death took over the Hogfather's role, because reasons -- it's complicated), a warrior-spirited young woman who strives to keep things real that should be real, and champion the beliefs that should be believed.

"Alles zu glauben ist zu viel, nichts zu glauben ist nicht genug."

["Believing everything is too much, believing nothing is not enough."]