#sweden christmas

[macirollfights]

Herb cookie encourage you to burn the gavle goat, You must burn the funny swedish straw goat.

I drew this sketch out of fun and its been in my head for a while. But there is this whole "tradition" in sweden where people burn a strawgoat that your not supposed to burn or else you'll get arrested for arson.

Its one of the reasons why I love december and christmas so much, its because of very dumb shit like this. But yeah uhhh merry early christmas for my swedish people out there.

Lets burn the gavleblocken with herb cookie! A sacrifice to the gods!

[coupleofdays]

The Gävle goat is getting a lot of attention around here, but I would like to make a case for a couple of other Swedish Christmas goats: The Kävlinge "Horny Goats".

It has been a Christmas tradition in the town of Kävlinge since 2015 to put up a pair of goats in a traffic circle. And for just as long, there has been a somewhat more inofficial tradition that someone will move those two goats into a mating position, giving them the nickname "kåtbockarna" (literally "the horny goats", a Swedish term similar to the English "horndog").

One year an unknown person even put up three smaller goats around the two large ones, to indicate that they've had children.

This year, however, the goats have been positioned in a somewhat less intimate position, simply kissing eachother:

Swedish television news did a short feature where they interviewed citizens of Kävlinge about this latest change, and most of them expressed disappointment, apparently preferring the "horny" version.

Considering that "bock" usually refers to males of the species, this means that Kävlinge has had a public display of gay sex each Christmas for several years, enthusiastically supported by its citizens. I think that's a Christmas tradition well worth celebrating.

[haveyouheardthisband]

[humanoidhistory]

Man rides a straw Yule goat on Christmas Eve in Uppsala, Sweden, 1946.

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I love the stillness of Christmas morning.

[freeoftheground]

I am pleased to announce that the Gävle Goat of 2023 has been declared "destroyed by Jackdaws".

The goat's fate has largely been accepted by the people of Gävle, who were amused to see the birds eat the straw, even before they were finished setting it up. The general consensus amongst the town was to leave the goat alone and let nature take it's course.

So once again, tradition has been vindicated. May the Gävle Goat rest in peace, and may the odds of 2024 be ever in our favour.

[tauremornalome]

aaaahhhh its less than a week untill the inauguration of this years gavle goat!

[warizoh]

[ben-the-hyena]

Second day of Christmas : the Yule Goat

In Scandinavian countries, the Yule Goat or Julbock is an emblematic Christmas figure taken straight from Norse and Germanic mythologies. Inspired from the goats who accompanied Thor and turned malevolent and satanic at the moment of Christianism's coming, he became good again in the 19th century and it was then said he was the one bringing presents to children, before being rewritten agai as just the Julenisse's mate/steed, the elf who is said to be the one bringing gifts more recently. The reason why I drew him crisp burnt is referring to the Gävle Goat, Sweden. It's super funny, but too long tocbe explained here, there are lots of articles and videos on the subject and this year is a new step in its history

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Merry Christmas Ghesties. 🤍🎄

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Stockholms stadsbibliotek

Stockholm Public Library

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'The Christmas Fair' (1872) by Georg von Rosen  (Swedish, 1843–1923).

Åsa Lundén / Nationalmuseum

Wikimedia.

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'pillars of light' photographs by jonna jinton

[2seeitall]

Evening in Helsinki, Finland

IG:  2seeitall.ig

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Christmas feeling in Stockholm

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Örebro, Sweden