Memento Mori Christmas decoration

It would seem that our favorite holidays – Christmas and New Year’s day are very traditional, homemade, and even conservative. Their symbols are well-known and loved: fluffy green herringbone, flashing garlands, tinsel, glass balls, toys, snowmen, Santa Claus or Santa with reindeer, snowflakes … Some very old decorations are taken out of boxes were stored by generations of parents, grandparents, decorations from their childhood. People buy luxury sets of balls to celebrate this important holiday. The Goths and other fans of dark romance are not the exception. Gothic subculture followers thoroughly decorate Christmas interior filling it with Victorian style, post-punk, neo-Gothic decorations reminiscent of the style of Tim Burton – Memento Mori Christmas.

Aesthetic and philosophizing Gothic subculture is adhered to the medieval principle “Memento Mori” (Remember that you have to die). It must be admitted that the use of the death has attributes of important psychological effect, aimed not just to death, but quite the opposite direction. This is something like the mechanism of meeting with frightening, through the world of familiar objects and concepts and thus, overcoming fear. This is always a time for a game, manifesting more or less explicitly. Suffice it to recall Halloween, Mexican Santa Muerte (very colorful carnival), the medieval Dance of Death, etc. And if you see a wreath with skulls on the door – safely come to visit, you will not be bored.

We’re gonna have a gothic christmas
That is what we’ll do
We’re gonna have a gothic christmas
Hope you’ll have one too

Santa’s going to wear a black dress
Just for me and you
Santa’s going to grunt in Latin
And slay a dragon or two

Rudolph, he will change his name
’cause Rudolph just sounds really lame
Now we’ll call him Ragnagord
The evil reindeer overlord

His nose it shall be red no more
It will be blackened to the core
His eyes will glow an evil glow
To guide the chariot through the snow

We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas
We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas
We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas
We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas

We’re gonna have a Gothic Christmas
That is what we’ll do
We’re gonna have a Gothic Christmas
Hope you’ll have one too

We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas
We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas
We want to wish you a Gothic Christmas
Hope you’ll have a Gothic Christmas too

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