bring back the Yule mobile!
Within the last episode of Brute Norse there's a passage that before the Victorian livingroom global takeover of the Yule Tree (which may anyhow reflect & echo the far earlier interior hall tree from The Saga of the Völsungs with its sword-gift stuck in it by Jólfaðr [Yule-Father] Odin) there was an amazing Scandinavian tradition of assembling huge beautiful straw mobiles that were geometric cosmological models of the universe that would gently turn in the drafts from outside and the fireplace from the ceilings to admire over the winterbound nights : The above's a Norwegian Oro, while below's a Swedish Halmkrona: There are many other-regional variants from the Ukraine, Poland, Belarus, Lithuania, and more, so it was a rather widespread to Eastern Europe & Russia, and where it came from is anyone's guess, but that it got adopted, stuck, given a magical/representational meaning, and produced such craftworks of beauty seems totally worth re-adopting...