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newyearsday:
I wonder if anyone knows of any songs that celebrate the Winter Solstice....I'm really into the book The Mists of Avalon, set 1500 hundred years ago during the reign of King Arthur, and it's making me want to research any ancient songs of more pagan or earth-based worship.

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Jenny

Ellemeno:
Light is returning
by Charlie Murphy

Light is returning, even though this is the darkest hour
No one can hold back the dawn.

One planet is turning, turning on a path around the Sun
Earth Mother is calling Her children home.

Let's keep it burning, let's keep the light of hope alive,
Make safe the journey through the storm.



(Jenny, I can sing it for you over the phone if you want, it's an easy peaceful melody.)

Daniel:
What a beautiful song...

Its words are so remniscient of the ancient traditions of Yule. The yule log was kept burning through the darkest night of the year, to guide the Sun-child back from its journey through the Underworld.

Kd5000:
I used to have a book of Solstice poems.    Can't seem to find it anymore. 

"I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift."

I remembered that line from a poem Anne Sexton wrote.  It was in the book.

Never heard of any Solstice songs. Wouldn't they have some on a Celtic CD?  You might want to conduct a search on AMAZON.com.

I couldn't get thru the THE MISTS OF AVALON. It came out in the mid 1980's I believe. I bought it during the early part of the summer thinking that this will last the whole season as the book was so thick.  It told the Arthurian story from the women's point of view, correct.

Maybe I should try WAR AND PEACE instead.  ;)

Front-Ranger:
I think George Winston has a CD called Winter that is very beautiful. Also, I am listening to Sting's Songs from the Labyrinth which features the lute compositions of John Dowland. Although they date from the late 1500s they seem very relevant to both the Christmas and the solstice somehow.

I have written more about this on Anything Goes under Music News.

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