Pagan-friendly Yule/Solstice/Holiday Movies?

[Swampdweller900]

Hey y'all - with Solstice and Yule only weeks away, just wondering what your favorite pagan-friendly winter holiday movies are.

Personally, Scrooged is my favorite version of an Xmas Carol, which is pagan-ish-friendly, but it's not exactly pagan-forward.

 

[Rowena]

Rare Exports
Not exactly a pagan movie - but pagan friendly.

 

[sahgwa]

Christmas is at its heart pagan. We all know this. So asking for pagan friendly movies is to me like asking for a vegan steak. It's like. Celebrate the holiday/solstice or don't. Like, whether there was a historical Jesus or not is at this point moot because the Romans in their political genius made it a usurping of the Osiris and other dying king and mage myths. This label obsessed generation is funny. 'pagan friendly '
To be pagan is to be counter culture . Not to look for validation in mainstream films.
It's a bit nonsensical of a question.

That said, I think any holiday film that makes you laugh is great. I like National lampoons Christmas Vacation. It literally satirises the Christian commercialism

 

[h3x1n9]

Polar express- in structure its a initiation. Heroes journey-crossing a liminal realms - test of believe (gnosis) with a psychopomp (conductor) revelation and return.

Fav shadow work movie is Black Swan btw

 

[Kepler]

Four Rooms(1995) is set on New Year's Eve. The Missing Ingredient segment an example of the changing public attitudes of acceptance and integration of wild women reconstructing mythos leading into Xennial movies like The Craft.

 

[Swampdweller900]

Christmas is at its heart pagan. We all know this. So asking for pagan friendly movies is to me like asking for a vegan steak. It's like. Celebrate the holiday/solstice or don't. Like, whether there was a historical Jesus or not is at this point moot because the Romans in their political genius made it a usurping of the Osiris and other dying king and mage myths. This label obsessed generation is funny. 'pagan friendly '
To be pagan is to be counter culture . Not to look for validation in mainstream films.
It's a bit nonsensical of a question.

That said, I think any holiday film that makes you laugh is great. I like National lampoons Christmas Vacation. It literally satirises the Christian commercialism

Yes, for sure Christmas is at its core pagan in origins, which to me means that pagan holiday traditions are what we all have a right to celebrate as they were here first. Yule, Solstice, Saturnalia, New Year's Eve - all variations of winter holidays free from the happenings of the Levant. I would, in fact, very much like to celebrate the Solstice without needing to run it through the filter of Hollywood.

Being pagan is only counter culture now in Abrahamic-dominant societies, as it's their term for non-followers of Yahweh (who was once a single god of many in a pantheon). For centuries Christians were the counter-culture in polytheistic societies. That other cultures came and held on to someone else's traditions for political convenience and adapted them to be their own doesn't mean they won the right to do what they please with all holidays and force others to their will.