On Tuesday, Dec. 13th, Kyle and I celebrated Luciadagen by baking lussikatter or Lussi Cats. Lussikatter are buns usually made with saffron, wheat dough, and currants. I don't like currants so we used cranberries instead. They are then made into cat faces or into S shapes which represents the body of the cat.
(Before baking)
(After)
Saint Lucia is a complex figure with a multifaceted history. A bringer of light (in the form of a crown of candles) on the erstwhile darkest night of the year (according to the old calendar), she is sometimes called a witch, a leader of the Wild Hunt, and even has ties to Lilith and is a consort of Lucifer. The Luminous Stone edited by Michael Howard and Daniel A. Schulke, a book of essays on Lucifer in witchcraft, touches on Saint Lucy or Lucia and her ties to these matters.
(Kyle made Isthar and a goat [right] and I made a stag without eyes at first.)
(I decided to add the eyes.)
I also made three offerings of lussikatter in the shapes of two ravens and a stag head for my two patrons the Morrigan and Odin and then to Cernunnos for this time of year.
(We got the recipe out of this book.)
(Shapes!)
(So I only had a rooster cookie cutter so I tried to form two of them into ravens.)
(Here are the two ravens and stag on my altar.)
(Close up.)
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