Winter Ritual of Re-Creation and Re-Membrance: Crested Butte, CO Winter Soulstice/New Year Ceremony - Going A-Souling! Re-creating the Ancient Tradition of our European and Nordic ancestors, as we walk through our community offering blessings and Good Cheer to all businesses, local family, friends and all visitors.
Join our Seasonal Celebration Community as we Sing Up the Solstice Sun with sacred
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DECEMBER 21 through 24 Celebrating 18th Annual Winter Solstice-Wintertok!
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FATHER WINTER & THE MAIDEN OF LIGHT RETURNING
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KRAMPUS Wild Santa Procession of Beauties and Beasties
Welcoming up the Newborn Winter Solstice Sun ~ Return of the Light
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Remember the Wild Santa and Krampus with his Helpers
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Wintertok Snow Gratitude, Commitment and Remembrance Ceremony for the New Year
All-Community Winter Blessing Ceremony.
SATURDAY, DEC. 22, 9:30am
FAMILIES, FRIENDS, all FOLKS
Gather at the Octopus Cafe to create evergreen wreaths, paint faces and don our warmest regalia of White, Red and Fur as the entire community of Crested Butte, CO honors the Solstice by going A' Souling in a procession through the village to honor plentiful Snow as Father Winter passes the torch to the Green Man of Spring to come.
KRAMPUS WILD SANTA PROCESSION OF BEAUTIES AND BEASTIES
Let's get Hairy, Scary and Sacred with Old Krampus and his horned minions.
Or wear your Warmest, most wonderful Wintertok Regalia of White, Green and upcycled furs and shine in your most wondrous Winter Solstice glamoury
At @11:15am We join together at Elk Ave and 2nd Streets ready to follow that most ancient of St. Nick's, and the oldest of them all--Krampus, and his partner the Gray Ghost Mare, or Pale Horse of Welsh tradition call Mari Lwyd. Follow her ghostly effigy as we drum our way through the Center of the Village.
NOON~WINTERTOK RITUAL gather in Totem Pole Park for a spontaneous Ceremony to honor the Ancestors, the Spirits of Fire, Ice and Frost, the Nature Spirits, the Maiden of Light, the Mountain Spirits and the wild man Krampus as the denizens of the Deep Dark arise and enter the land of Sun's Return.
Fiddling and songs of the seasons performed by Lizzy Plotkin and Isabel Russell.
The Green Man and the WiseWomen Norns of Norse tradition share Seeing, promises and blessings for the times to come. The stories of our ForeParents, the sacred Land, the ever-changing Seasons and our communal generosity of spirit are shared. Songs, traditional dance, Elders' and Wisdom-Carriers narratives are shared around the sacred Snow Circle. Every person has an opportunity to make their personal Commitment to Self, Others and Earth as Father Winter, the Holly King gathers us in ancient ceremony. We make time to re-Member and re-Claim our history and most ancient heritage from Norse, European, Slavic, Germanic and Celtic traditions.
We celebrate our Ancestors and Native Spirit!
Glad Jul och Glatt Vintersolstand! Happy Yuletide and Soulstice Season!
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FAMILIES, FRIENDS, all FOLKS
Gather at the Octopus Cafe to create evergreen wreaths, paint faces and don our warmest regalia of White, Red and Fur as the entire community of Crested Butte, CO honors the Solstice by going A' Souling in a procession through the village to honor plentiful Snow as Father Winter passes the torch to the Green Man of Spring to come.
KRAMPUS WILD SANTA PROCESSION OF BEAUTIES AND BEASTIES
Let's get Hairy, Scary and Sacred with Old Krampus and his horned minions.
Or wear your Warmest, most wonderful Wintertok Regalia of White, Green and upcycled furs and shine in your most wondrous Winter Solstice glamoury
At @11:15am We join together at Elk Ave and 2nd Streets ready to follow that most ancient of St. Nick's, and the oldest of them all--Krampus, and his partner the Gray Ghost Mare, or Pale Horse of Welsh tradition call Mari Lwyd. Follow her ghostly effigy as we drum our way through the Center of the Village.
NOON~WINTERTOK RITUAL gather in Totem Pole Park for a spontaneous Ceremony to honor the Ancestors, the Spirits of Fire, Ice and Frost, the Nature Spirits, the Maiden of Light, the Mountain Spirits and the wild man Krampus as the denizens of the Deep Dark arise and enter the land of Sun's Return.
Fiddling and songs of the seasons performed by Lizzy Plotkin and Isabel Russell.
The Green Man and the WiseWomen Norns of Norse tradition share Seeing, promises and blessings for the times to come. The stories of our ForeParents, the sacred Land, the ever-changing Seasons and our communal generosity of spirit are shared. Songs, traditional dance, Elders' and Wisdom-Carriers narratives are shared around the sacred Snow Circle. Every person has an opportunity to make their personal Commitment to Self, Others and Earth as Father Winter, the Holly King gathers us in ancient ceremony. We make time to re-Member and re-Claim our history and most ancient heritage from Norse, European, Slavic, Germanic and Celtic traditions.
We celebrate our Ancestors and Native Spirit!
Glad Jul och Glatt Vintersolstand! Happy Yuletide and Soulstice Season!
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PROCESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR SNOW!
WINTER GREEN MAN
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