La Festa dell’ Inverno: Winter 2023 - Part 2

 

 

Post Xmas

I had actually wanted to get this out, with a lot more content, before Xmas.... but I just didn't get to it. On the subject of Krampus.... Krampus is not just from German mythology, but from surrounding countries and regions as well. According to Wikipedia... "Krampus appears in the folklore of Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Northern Italy, Autonomous Province of Trento and South Tyrol, Slovakia, and Slovenia." [Book: 'Celebrating Life Customs around the World: From Baby Showers to Funerals' by Victoria Williams; 2016]. Although German in origin, it ultimately comes from Norse mythology, and likely traveled within the folklore of Germanic tribes and bands such as Goths, Cimbrians, etc.

It seems strongest in the eastern Alps. However, although it's fun to be able to lay some sort've ancestral tie-in to the Krampus legend, the Italian Alps is ripe with many other mythological legends that I'll cover at some other time. On one video, someone suggested that the Krampus legend "migrated" to Trento, the Dolomites, etc. from the Austrian-Hapsburg Empire. This, of course, is absolute nonsense, as the Austrian occupiers were hated in Trento, Lombardy, and the Tri-Veneto! I didn't want to argue the point since it was just all just in fun. Clearly, this cultural migration was due to several small soft migrations of Germanic peoples over the centuries.

 

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Video Links

10 Most Disturbing Cults That Are Still Active - YouTube

10 Popular Celebs Linked to Cults - YouTube

'SATANISTS NEXT DOOR' | Our cameras capture a secret ritual as a 'curse' is cast | 7NEWS Documentary - YouTube

Celebrities Who Have Been Involved In The Occult - YouTube

The Hole - Scientology's Prison Camp - YouTube

"Going Clear" Writer Lawrence Wright Talks Scientology and Tom Cruise - YouTube

The Leonard Lake Tapes - YouTube

Cat Tales | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS - YouTube

What This Trail-Cam Recorded, Will Horrify You! - YouTube

Trail Cam Captures What No One Was Supposed To See #2 - YouTube

Aliens & UFOs: Dolores Barrios and the "Venusians" that visited a UFO conference in 1954!! - YouTube

Stuttering John Trashes Jackie Martling in His Autobiography (w/ Bob Levy) - YouTube

Man Dies In Motorcycle Crash And Is Shown The Human Incarnation Process (NDE) - YouTube

The Most Brutal Punishments of Genghis Khan - YouTube

The Satanic Ceremony Nobody Seemed To Notice - YouTube

Dead For 2 Minutes; Woman Is Shown Our Purpose During A Trip Through The Afterlife (NDE) - YouTube

LeMat Revolver - Loading & Firing - YouTube

Lucifer and the Black Sun - ROBERT SEPEHR - YouTube

Satanist leads prayer at Pensacola council meeting - YouTube

Unforgettable encounter with super cute Koala wanting kisses, cuddles... and water - YouTube

Pagan Origins of Christmas & Tradition History - Full Documentary - YouTube

RARE DOCUMENTARY: Vril and Thule Society; Antarctica; Advanced Civilizations

Admiral Byrd's Strange Adventures- the secrets of his lost diaries

 

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"Inaction is the holiday of fools"
-- Better Ideas, 'Inaction Is A Slow Death' (YouTube)

 

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Outsiders & Outcasts (For Those That Don't Belong)

Einzelgänger

1.69M subscribers

142,303 views  - November 12, 2020

From the moment we are born as human beings, the people around us prepare us to fit the herd. We start out as being part of a family, and then we expand our social life with friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and, in many cases, a significant other. People tend to work together and spend time with each other, and thus, they form a well-oiled machine called society.

Living among the herd has many benefits, like safety, security, access to other people including potential mates, and a shared identity that creates a sense of self. But in some cases, the herd doesn’t want you anymore, and you become an outcast. Or you don’t want the herd anymore, and you become a recluse. Or, perhaps, a little bit of both.

No matter what the reason is: some people just don’t seem to belong. And when you don’t belong, you’re an outsider; an outcast. So, how do we handle being an outsider? What about those that don't belong?

This video explores the fate of those outsiders and outcasts that live outside the herd.

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 "The more I'm surrounded by people the more I feel alone."
-- Hideaki Page

How to Connect with People When You Feel like an Outsider | Eckhart Tolle

The Outsider's Guide to the Social World

To Anyone Who Feels Like They Don't Belong

Hated, Ignored, Rejected & Happy: A Video for Outcasts (based on Black Mirror’s ‘Nosedive’)

How To Handle Feeling Left Out

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Lets make the public library popular again!

Somebody sure needed to state what's on the above image! Sometimes some closed minded right or left wing ideologue is presented with some fool-proof fact(s) that stops them in their tracks, and they immediately do a cowardly "quick google search" in order to justify their position with some scant counter argument, and they use it as justification for some destructive belief that they just can't exorcise from their minds. A real critical thinker---at least in their own mind!---challenges their beliefs by looking at it from the opposite camp, or a whole assortment of other checks to test it's validity. The main point that I wanted to make is that we all need to start physically going to the library again! Also, in our library systems are special research rooms, where records and other information can be found that we should all know about. Maybe we all need to make note that 2023 would be a good time to start using our library system a lot more!

 

 

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Top 10 Rammstein Songs

WatchMojo.com

24.9M subscribers - 3.3M views

Massive pyrotechnics and hardcore industrial music. What a show. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Rammstein Songs.

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"a top 10 is not enough for rammstein"
-- starforce224

"The beauty of Rammstein, to me as a native English-speaker, is the fact that I have no idea what the hell they are singing.  I just love the way it sounds."
-- jeffwads

"Till Lindemann easily has the perfect voice for metal music. Man i love Rammsteins music"
-- TheCarBrothers

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'Krampus' (2015) - film review - Part 2

Krampus: The Demon Of Christmas (Folklore Explained)

Mythology & Fiction Explained

Today we take a look at Santa's not so friendly helper, Krampus. The origins of the Krampus legend and the traditions that still take place even today.


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Krampus (film)

Krampus is a 2015 American dark fantasy horror film based on the eponymous character from Austro-Bavarian folklore, written and directed by Michael Dougherty and co-written by Todd Casey and Zach Shields. The film stars Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Allison Tolman, Conchata Ferrell, Emjay Anthony, Stefania LaVie Owen, and Krista Stadler. It was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on December 4, 2015.


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St. Nicholas and his Krampuses (Germany)

The film opens with the doors first opening up on the morning of "Black Friday." Lots of overt aggression and violence, which set the mood for the film's "in your face" style. Soon after, we are introduced to the very dysfunctional Engel family, and their even more dysfunctional in-laws who are visiting for the three-days leading up to Christmas. Numerous extended family members have a flat-out dislike for one-another, which comes especially well into focus on their first holiday supper. Much of the story revolves around their German-speaking grandmother Omi. In general, the main protagonist is her grandson Max, who still believes in Santa Klaus. The mother is played by Toni Collette, who seems a bit prissy but she can get very intense. She reminds me of Paul Giamatti, with a great "character face." Kathy Bates is in it, playing a super-annoying in-law who wasn't expected to be there. This film would be labeled as "comedy-horror."

After being teased about a letter that we was writing to Santa, Max later tears up the letter and tosses it out the window, which seems to set in motion supernatural events. I suppose that he "put it out there to the universe" a message of the family's extreme negativity and mean spiritedness. Shortly thereafter, a power outage amid a snowstorm signals "party time" for horror fans. The daughter goes out to take a walk, and witnesses the ominous arrival of Krampus amid the dark, gloomy sky and weather. He appears on a nearby roof looking like a large, horned, hoofed, claw bearing, super-creepy long-tongued, chain-clad, demonic Santa Klaus. He does her in and turns her into a snowman.

Once she's assumed missing, the two father characters go out to find her and are attacked by Krampus, although they manage to make it back to the house. This sets the stage for the rest of the film. Slowly the threat brings the family together, and they start to cooperate. At some point it becomes clear that Omi knows of Krampus, and experienced his wrath when she was a child back in a village in a German-speaking country. Eventually she tells the whole family this story, as well as the reason for this occurrence, which was that they had forgotten the spirit of Christmas and about the sacrifice of giving.

The Badalisc (Val Camonica)

What it boils down to is that the family pulls together and shows love and courage by fighting back against Krampus and his dark elves and other evil helpers. Even Kathy Bates' toxic character took action and became one of the best fighters. Although the film didn't actually state it, the basic theme was "evolutionary struggle." At least in the past, if a clan didn't work together and sacrifice for the extended group, then they could possibly all perish. So the lesson is about love and sacrifice. I think this was the one accurate aspect of the Krampus (or similar Alpine deities) legend in the modern sense. So the war was on, and both sides--the Engels and the Krampus gang--suffered casualties.

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The final showdown; Max and Krampus

Finally the family flees the house, but Omi stays behind to face Krampus. It didn't seem to be clear as to why, but when they met face-to-face she seemed to have perished. It didn't show this, perhaps because it may have been too disturbing for very young viewers. Actually it was a rather violent film, but it didn't actually depict the killing of any humans. As the family flees, the Krampus group attacks and one-by-one pulls them under the snow which meant that they had perished. Max finally comes face-to-face with Krampus, and he gives the boy a dark green steel Christmas tree bulb. Max takes back his negative "wish" aloud and throws the bulb back at him... and it sizzles, sinks into the snow, and forms a large hellfire pit. Krampus throws the remaining girl into it, and then Max as well.

The film ends with Max waking up in this bed on Christmas morning; it was just a dream. Everyone is alive and acting like any loving family; entirely different than they had behaved prior. It was all just a lesson, but there was a small surprise ending which I'll not divulge. Again, I though that this horror film was important to review because of the real Alpine folklore attached to it, Krampus has it's origin in the ancient Horned God of European witchcraft, as well as the legend's lesson. At some point in history it merged with Christian themes, with Krampus usually being one of Santa's helpers. Actually, to be truthful, "Santa's thug"; taking care of the bad boys and girls. Of course, that was the Christian makeover.

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