A Winter Solstice Prayer

[@Dracheneks]

Wes þu hāl, brother. I thank you for bringing back these ancestral practices to a country that has lost them, and is in much need of them. Hail Sunna, may she bring back the brightest and warmest days in the coming year.

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you for your appreciation my friend. It is important to keep hold of our spiritual past, I agree. Here's to the Sun!

[@dracodistortion9447]

May Woden bring wisdom and guide you. May Thunor bring clarity and protect you. May Yngwi bring increase and fertility. May *Neorth bring wealth and fortune. May Eostre bring light and purity.

[@gesithasgewissa]

I thank you for your prayer, may those same gods smile on you ☺

[@vitalikmark5399]

I thank Jeshua For being not a creature, as all, but the Creator, who is the Life and the breathing Love. I thank you, God, for this young man. And I pray to You in the name of your beloved Son Jesus Christ to let him once see your glory, wisdom, pain and love. Be blessed, my friend.

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you for your blessings

[@cianmoriarty7345]

Alec, Pray to Jesus Christ. The Anglo Saxons were Christian by this point. In fact they were at this stage moving from the Insular Christianity introduced by the monks from Iona, common in the north and west, to the the Latin Rite popular in the south. The Latin Rite was introduced by Augustine of Canterbury, who was sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 595AD. Augustine became the first Archbishop of Canterbury in 597. The Synod of Whitby was convened in 664AD to discuss this question of what liturgy and practice should be adopted, and soon the Latin practice would predominate.

[@gesithasgewissa]

@@cianmoriarty7345 Certainly, Christianity was spreading amongst the Anglo-Saxon elite, however at this time in Somerset it is highly likely that the rural and farming populations still practiced pagan and folklore beliefs alongside new Christian ideas. The fact that King Ine's lawcodes include the restriction of pagan practices in the late 7th and early 8th century, shows that the continued practice of these beliefs were still considered a 'problem' by Christian rulers. Not to mention that not all kings of the Gewisse were Christian in the last half of the seventh century. I'll be including more Christian historical information as time passes, you'll just have to wait a couple of years for the Synod of Whitby 😉

[@child_of_gaia1836]

I shall Feast with my Mother, I shall Fly with my Father, I shall stand by the Fire with my Brother, I shall sit by the Ocean with my Sister, For we are family we are One. (This our Mother GAIA'S Prayer) HAVE A BLESSED WINTER SOLSTICE .

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you for your beautiful prayer. Blessings to you!

[@TheMegaRedHead]

I thank you, for teaching us about the Anglo-Saxons while making beautiful and calm videos. These bring me peace at the end of the day.

[@gesithasgewissa]

I'm very glad to hear it!

[@Mark723]

Thank you for this simple, yes beautifully majestic prayer! May your Solstice be memorable and rewarding. And thank you for all that you share with us.

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you for your kind words, I hope your midwinter celebrations are joyful too!

[@matthijsdebruijn615]

Beautiful prayer!

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you

[@thereseschroeder-sheker2414]

Oh Sir, Indescribable gratitude for the beauty, intensity and depth of your prayer, life and work. ✨️🕊🕯🙏🤲🌹🎶

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you!

[@roxymcrae4645]

This is beyond beautiful 🙏 thank you for expressing and sharing your gratitude

[@gesithasgewissa]

You are very welcome! Blessings to you.

[@EarthMunky66]

Blessed be.

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you for your blessings

[@stoneofthor4279]

Now that’s a prayer. Deep expression of gratitudes. Thank you for this!

[@gesithasgewissa]

I am so grateful for this year. Best wishes to you!

[@edwinmason123]

A time of awakenings and new beginnings

[@gesithasgewissa]

Indeed, best wishes to you!

[@Evan_Bell]

You get it, don't you. You understand what this weltanschauung is about, and you share it with us, beautifully. I appreciate you for that. You're playing no small part in this rebirth of ours. Glad belated geol.

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you, your kind words really mean a lot!

[@thatcouncilestatekid1832]

Let winter begin thanks for the episode all the best to you moving forward

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you, and best wishes to you!

[@wudugast1]

Not long til the Summer Sunstead now. ;)

[@gesithasgewissa]

I'm looking forward to it!

[@FrozenHawkHunter]

Had a fire on the Solstice with a few friends not as many came as I hope but was still a good night.

[@gesithasgewissa]

That's great! Happy Midwinter to you!

[@donmcallister3745]

Well said… Amen Peace 🌜🌞🌛

[@gesithasgewissa]

Peace to you too!

[@Mark723]

Thanks!

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you for your kindness Mark!

[@royberin]

blessed are you too.

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you.

[@Tobiasz1985]

👍👍👍

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thanks for watching!

[@angelcollina]

That was beautiful! ❤

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you so much!

[@SemFlok]

Чекаю ваші нові відео

[@gesithasgewissa]

Welcome!

[@AliceEade-st2yc]

Beautiful words our ancestors would of been more in tune with nature and the seasons, will you be doing anything similar next year for summer solstice?

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you! I will upload these festival celebrations whenever it feels right, depending how I'm celebrating them

[@CharlesKS]

Mín se swétesta sunnan scíma hwæt ðú glæm hafast. Sunnan glæm on sunn-stede hyhtes tácen weceþ. Ic deóre sunnan glæm on wintra!

[@gesithasgewissa]

Beautiful words! Though I am sad to say I do not yet know Old English so well. Perhaps you could leave a translation? ☺

[@CharlesKS]

@@gesithasgewissa certainly! "My sweetest sunshine, ah, you have radiance. The sun's gleam on solstice awakens signs of hope. I love the sun's gleam in winter!"

[@gesithasgewissa]

@@CharlesKS Beautiful. Thank you!

[@CharlesKS]

@@gesithasgewissa And óðer geár cumeþ...and another year comes. 😊

[@kysilverhawk]

cool videos i really like your videos so where are you from my friend

[@gesithasgewissa]

Thank you! I hail from Somerset in South West Britian; the original tribelands of the Gewisse, later known as the West Saxons!

[@EileenBeniest]

💜

[@gesithasgewissa]

Best wishes to you!

[@williampeters9838]

Pretty sure Britain was mainly Christian by the 8th century lol. Cool video though.

[@Weißruthenische_Heimwehr]

Despite this fact, many old traditions were maintained included in folk Christianity

[@gesithasgewissa]

On the contrary, while a good number of kings and members of the elite were nominally Christian in the 7th century and Christianity was spreading fast, it was by no means ubiquitous. King Cenwalh of Wessex had only recently been baptised in the mid 7th century and, according to Bede, "still refused to accept the mysteries of the faith" for he took another wife; Seaxburh, after repudiating his first wife. Other kings in the late 7th-century were openly pagan, including Penda, Arwald and possibly Caedwalla. As the conversion to Christianity was driven by the elite, the fact that there was still widespread ambivalence among the elite towards converting, suggests that paganism was almost certainly still widespread among local folk into the 8th century. In fact, Anglo-Saxon law codes continued to forbid pagan practices for the next few centuries, which clearly suggests they were still occurring. I would also point out there is nothing overtly pagan in celebrating the winter solstice or giving thanks to nature, as this continued to be practiced in Christian celebrations as well. Thanks for watching ☺

[@craigsurette3438]

For most of the dark ages, England was Christian , the same way modern Haiti is Catholic.....ie barely.