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Santa Lucia
Before dawn on December 13, “Little Yule,” the eldest daughter of a Scandinavian household arises and sets a wreath of greenery upon her head to which are anchored several candles. With these all ablaze in the pre-dawn dimness she walks the corridors, calling on each bedroom with a gift of hot coffee, lussekatter (“Lucy kats,” yeast rolls) and gingerbread. She is the Lucia bruden, the Lucia Bride, Saint Lucy.
Lucia exhibits traits of many ancient goddesses. She is almost certainly a face of Freya, “Mistress of Cats,” whose special season was Yule and who was dedicated to the dispensing of wealth and plenty. The Norse sun-goddess Sunna, whose emblem is the firey wheel, is also present in St. Lucy, and the Italian midwife goddess of “first light,” Juno Lucina, may have lent her name to this bright figure.
More than anything, Lucia is the Lightbringer, the Child of Light who appears mysteriously out of the darkest night with hope and sustenance for all.
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