It is significant that truth is so often compared to light. The
analogy is a powerful one. Perhaps it springs from the fact that
light reveals thing as they are, showing that which is hidden, while
darkness obscures. In the light, we see what is, not what may be.
This is not to deny the importance of the darkness. Darkness contains
all potential. It is not merely the absence of light, but something
that is, in its own way, just as vital.
The long nights and short days of winter are pregnant with potential.
A creative chaos, the womb of all that is unmanifest, lurks in the
shadow. But in the fullness of time it must be replaced by rebirth,
by manifestation, by light, by truth rather than ambiguity - and
thus we have the return of Sunna, the Sun.
Light a candle to Truth, and define the world.
Steve McNallen
Asatru Folk Assembly
http://runestone.org
This series is sent as a service to the Germanic religious community, and its contents do NOT duplicate those of the AFA’s booklet, The Twelve Days of Yule in Word and Deed.
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