White Solstice / Burnt Devil

Desert Oracle Radio

Ken Layne

Society & Culture, Places & Travel, Philosophy

4.8 • 804 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Well we wound up burning the devil, here in Joshua Tree. It's the kind of winter-holiday fun you can expect up here in the High Desert. And Jason P. Woodbury joins us to investigate a real Low Desert Mystery: Where was "White Christmas" written? There are two answers and they'll both surprise you.

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0:00.0	Transmitting from the Mojave Wilderness in Joshua Tree, California, now is the time for Desert Oracle Radio, the voice of the desert.
0:14.8	Night has fallen on the desert.
0:24.2	Welcome sisters and brothers,
0:28.3	neighbors and friends and visitors The Blessed and the Damned
0:33.8	Good evening and maybe we ought to say good riddance
0:41.4	Because we are at the end of a very weird decade
0:47.4	We made it
0:50.0	I guess
0:51.0	Those of us still here anyway.
0:57.6	An ultimately beautiful decade because it's the only decade we've all had in these past 10 years.
1:08.5	And what a good time
1:11.1	what an ideal time to burn the sins of the past
1:17.5	and burn those who encourage those sins
1:22.1	the ritual we take part in tonight in this form comes from Guatemala, Central America, where the devil is strongly involved in daily life and where they give the devil his due.
1:47.7	Now, you might be thinking, well, Camad del Diablo is very much a Catholic cultural thing, a Christian thing.
1:59.0	Now, what do I, a common desert heathen, know of such things?
2:06.9	Well, guess what?
2:09.5	Heathens have devils too.
2:11.9	Devils don't belong to a religion.
2:16.0	Devils and demons are not picky. They are not picky about who they vex.
2:27.0	If a demonic spirit can mess up somebody's life in some way or another,
2:38.4	needlessly complicate things, take the joy out of living,
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