The Anglo-Saxon pagans celebrated Mōdraniht or Modranicht (Night of the Mo

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The Anglo-Saxon pagans celebrated Mōdraniht or Modranicht (Night of the Mothers or Mothers Night) on the same time period as that of Eve of Christmas. Researchers have suggested links between the Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht and historical occurrences documented by other Germanic people, particularly those involving Yule and the Disir (Female Deity or Spirit in Norse Mythology associated with Fate) as well as the Germanic Matres and Matronae, feminine figures who appear almost invariably in trios on altar and votive inscriptions. These Modra (Mothers) have been compared to the Germanic Matres and Matronae by scholars. As a Germanic Festival, Rudolf Simek suggested that Mōdraniht could have been associated with the Matron cult of the West Germanic people on one hand, and to the Dísablót and the Disting already known from medieval Scandinavia on the other, and is chronologically to be seen as a connecting link between those Germanic forms of Cult. Simek goes into more detail regarding the relationship between Mōdraniht, the Disir, and the Norns (Deities in Norse Mythology responsible for shaping Human Destinies). The occasion Mōdraniht has been assigned as a part of the Germanic Yule winter season by scholars.

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