I want to wish...
Sylvan
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...you all a wonderful Christmas!
And a new year full of good health and happiness mixed with lots of inspiration to make beautiful things <3</p>
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A really lovely render, just hits the spot for the festive season.
I like the sentiments too, best wishes to you and yours.
Thank you Estroyer. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year :)
That's nice. Thank you.
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yes, very nice. My attempt is over at Deviant Art, it's not much.
http://zarcondeegrissom.deviantart.com/art/Happy-holidays-from-the-ZDG-crew-501815615
assuming the link works.
I'm recycling this from a post I made at the Meadow...
HO! HO! HO!… Merry… Christmas Eve! Or Christmas… And/or Chanukah, or Hanukah, or Hannukah, or Chanuka, or Chanukkah, or Hanuka, or Channukah, or Chanukka, or Hanukka, or Hannuka, or Hannukkah, or Channuka, or Hannukka, or Channukkah, or Channukka, or ever Xanuka and possibly Chanuqa… I looked it up and apparently the only right way to spell it truly correctly is to use Hebrew characters… and then subsequently spell it correctly using those characters…
So apparently pretty much most of the offshoot variants are sort of correct or acceptable…
I propose adding Hanuhumunukkanukuapuaa as an official Hawaiian variant even though I'm neither Jewish nor Hawaiian, but since I am really bad at spelling, its just a matter of time until I eventually end up trying to spell it that way…
December has so many Holidays and special days...
Happy, Merry or Joyful Kwanzaa… (you should have seen the nine or ten ways I just tried to spell that until the little red line stopped appearing under what I was writing)…
If you are an ancient Roman sucked into a time vortex, Happy Saturnalia…
I suppose that has something to do with Saturn, the god and not the plastic car that General Motors used to make…
If you are from late 1970s Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island or South Jersey- Yo… Happy Chevy-CamaroZ28giorno… which does celebrate the Camaro Z28, a car that was (and sorta still is) made by General Motors…
Happy belated Bodhi Day if you are a Buddhist… that was in early December, so sorry if I forgot about it…
Have a Great Id al-Adha if you are Muslim… I know that it no longer occurs in December, but in about thirty years when it cycles back around again, this will be relevant.
If you are Hindu, Happy very, very belated Diwali… My wife is Hindu and we celebrate Diwali, but since it moves around a lot date-wise, I never know when it is gonna be… I just take her word for it… to be honest I think we may have had two Diwalis one year, incorrect Diwali and correct Diwali… if you like having lots of burning candles in an old flammable house, once (or more) a year this is a fun Holiday… sorta like Christmas and Hanuhumunukkanukuapuaa with all the birthday candles on all the cakes you ever had, spread all throughout your house…
Happy Fesivus "a celebration for the rest of us" if you are really,really into Seinfeld…
If you are a Wiccan, well then Happy Yule!
I like Donkeys, so I celebrate Mule, but thats on the last day in March when I drink all the remaining beer I had hoarded for winter hibernation… Since I don't really hibernate much and there really is no beer remaining by that point (actually I'm down to hard cider now), I usually have to buy a case to share with the donkeys down at the animal center… I know donkeys are not mules and donkeys don't really like stout… but I needed to make up another drinking day, Donkeea sounds stupid and I had to have a believable reason to hang around with the donkeys or the people at the animal center won't let me sleep over in the pens…
Joyful Winter Solstice… Many people have decided to once again celebrate Winter Solstice, besides the Pagans, Druids and Crazy Nick at the 7-11…
I look forward to the increasing daylight hours and the coming of spring… and celebrating Mule.
If you are an ancient Mayan or gullible enough to get sucked into believing Discovery Channel "documentaries"... then Happy Better Luck on The End-Of-The-World Next Year Day!, a day where all the people who looked forward to the world exploding on Dec 21-22, 2012 are yet again disappointed by being wrong and not dead for yet another year but get to blame it on a slight numerical error.
If You are Orthodox Kemetic… (I did not make that up), Happy Day of the Return of the Wandering Goddess… GO RA!
Happy Shabe-Yalda, if you worship Mithra… It was originally a religious observance of the night before the birth of Mithra, the man-god of Mithraism… Once the main competing religion to Christianity during the 3rd and 4th century CE in the Roman Empire… It is still celebrated by some folks in Iran… People gather at home around a korsee -- a low square table, all night…telling stories and reading poetry. They eat watermelons, pomegranates and a special dried fruit/nut mix and Bonfires are lit outside.
I like the idea of bonfires… generally I like any excuse to start a fire...
If you have ever been Japanese or still are, Happy Omisoka! Omisoka is a very popular end-of-year celebration in Japan. Families perform Ōsouji (the big cleanup) in order that the home will start the new year clean and tidy. According to Wikipedia: "A few minutes before midnight, every temple prepares Amazake (sweet sake… yum… sake), and crowds gather around a metal gong which is struck 108 times. This number is believed to be the number of sins and ill thoughts that can take place in a human mind."
Striking the gong drives these sins away.
Except for me, throwing the the whole gong at me wouldn't even work and 108 is way, way, way off… I can list 136 right off the bat without even trying… actually 142... um, 157 if you count an audience and confetti...
If you are a Disgruntled Atheist… Cool… Happy Kizmas?
Happy… or Solemn Zartusht-no-diso, if you are Zoroastrian… this is the day in the sacred calendar when worshippers remember the death anniversary of Zarathustra… Special prayers are recited and a visit is paid to the Fire Temple as a mark of remembrance.
I like the idea of a Fire Temple.
Thats about all that I think fall, fell, pass through or generally are associated with December…
Being that I'm half German, I probably should all wish all of the naughty little german boys and girls Happy Krampus Nacht!
This is a traditional winter holiday in which German parents can legitimately stuff their sleeping children in a burlap sack and beat them with a Krampus Knüppel (Krampus Club)… (I think IKEA sells a Swedish version… "Skimmer" for $12.99… but it looks more like an aluminum candle holder)…
On Krampus Nacht, as opposed to the other sack beating nights throughout the rest of the year, naughty little girls and boys look forward to a visit from Krampus… Who is basically a slightly hairier version of Satan.
I have never seen any depiction of him that paints him in a better light… but anyway if you rate less than coal in your stocking, Krampus will stuff you in a sack and beat you with a Swedish candle stick.
Of course this all depends on how bad you have been… I've heard sometimes he just kicks down your door, leaps on your bed and shakes chains at you, threatening to do worse next year unless you behave... or on the other end of the scale he cooks you and eats you.
Have you ever read a German fairy tale… I mean in real German… with authentic illustrations… they are horrifying.. guys with scissors loping off kids tongues or thumbs, birds pecking out eyes, kids getting dipped in boiling oil…
Freddy Krugger starts to look cuddly compared to some of the characters in those books.
My Mom had a few books from the 1930s that she found in a old book store in NYC (apparently she had the same ones as a kid, but hers got blown up during the Great Misunderstanding Of 1938-1945)… she shared some of the stories and cautionary tales with me… it was "enlightening".
I was never sure if she meant it to be a silly old tale or a warning, but all I knew was my Puerto Rican friend cried because his mom told him he might get coal in his stocking if he was mean to his sister again and I was pretty much looking at a personal visit from Satan.
My Italian side of the family just went with the whole Santa thing and the tradition of getting together, feasting, arguing and holding grudges against each other for the next couple of months.
I have a few slight issues with the Holidays…
But anyway… What I really originally wanted to say was…
Whatever you celebrate, whatever you enjoy, whatever kicks in your bedroom door and shakes chains at you, whomever you share this season with, may you have a Merry, Happy, Joyous and enjoyable Holiday, this year and every other one to come.
And… May nothing eat you if you have been naughty.
(I'm keeping it PG, so I'm not adding any "unless" statements to that).
From each and every one of the voices in my head…
Cheers and Beers, Peace and Love and good will to mankind and chipmunks everywhere!
Happy freakin' Holidays Yall!
Thank you, Estroyer.
Joyeux Noel!
Love your render, Estroyer, a perfect Christmas image.
Have a magical Christmas and all the best for 2015!
Thank U and Happy Holidays to you all!
-MJ
Wonderful expose' of the myriads of ways, in any number of languages, to scare the bejesus out of kids for being bad in the past year and bribe them to be good for the next year. And an excellent excuse for getting snockered..