The Germanic people have traditionally celebrated Yule. Researchers have linked the first Yule festivities to the Wild Hunt, the God Odin, and the paganic Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht i.e. Mothers Night. Yule-related words are still used to depict Christmas and other holiday period in English and the Scandinavian languages, in addition to Finnish and Estonian. The Yule log, Yule goat, Yule boar, Yule singing and other rituals and customs associated with Christmas today may have ties to earlier pagan Yule festivities. The current equivalent of the Old Norse words Jól and Jólnir for Odin is Yule. The Germanic people also commemorate Yule, a native winter holiday. The Yule-tide phase extends roughly two months, occurring at the conclusion of the modern-day calendar year during what is now mid-November and early January, and was first mentioned in epithet of month names. The etymology of the word is still unknown, despite various hypothetical efforts to locate Indo-European cognates outside of the Germanic linguistic family. Early in the history of the Germanic people, Yule is mentioned; in a Gothic language calendar from the fifth to sixth centuries, it has been referred to as Fruma Jiuleis. In the eighth century, the English historian Bede stated that the Anglo-Saxon calendar contained the months of Geola or Giuli, which correlate to either the current month of December or the months of December and January both. According to scholars, the Yule season, the Wild Hunt, the God Odin and an upsurge in paranormal activity are all related to this month-event. The celebration of Mōdraniht, a combined female-being-focused festival, which Bede attested to have taken place among the pagan Anglo-Saxons on what is now Christmas Eve, has been further viewed as more proof of a fertility event during the Yule season. Most people believe that the festivities surrounding Yule revolved around Midwinter with practises like feasting, drinking and sacrifice i.e. Blót.
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