As a Pagan I have missed Hymns , and felt an intense call to create pagan versions of popular Christmas carols.
This song incorporates the atmosphere of a cold winter farm, observing nature and being in awe by the presence of the gods around us.
It rained half way through recording on my skylight windows, and the timing felt so perfect so I kept it in.

How Great Thou Art - Heathen

This is an introspective tune that describes one man’s attempt to spend his Christmas alone so he might more fully assess his life through Christmases past to the present. He has no distractions and finds the peace of the Christmas spirit to ease his soul. 

© 2025 Daniels & Durgy / Gentle Rain Records
Written by Craig Durgy
Performed and Produced by Nat Daniels & Craig Durgy
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Lyrics:
(Verse 1)
The new winter moon pours out bright on the lake
Snow like a carpet to my door
There by the window, this moment I take
The fireplace crackles with warmth
 
(Pre Chorus)
This cabin holds memories, a child I was then
Grown up with each summer gone by
But this Christmas Eve, alone I have been
To rescue the blessings of time. 
 
(Verse 2)
This whiskey that’s aged well for 26 years
Golden and warming it glows
The Christmas winds whistle with yesterday’s fears
Outside like a siren it blows
 
I see many faces in Christmases past
Their voices resound with a smile
And as the logs settle to embers and ash
My soul is at ease like a child
 
Alone I have no one but me to engage
There is no other voice but the night
The night that conceived on this holiest eve
The eternal truth of the light
 
I see many faces in Christmases past
Their voices resound with a smile
And as the logs settle to embers and ash
My soul is at ease like a child
My soul is at ease, on this Christmas Eve
My soul is at ease like a child

Alone with Yule

Alone With Yule

The Sigdrifa prayer sung to a known hymn's tune 
To honour the return of the sun during the dark cold winter months.

Hęill dagr,
hęilir dags synir,
hęil nótt ok nipt;
óręiðum augum
lítið okr þinig
ok gefið sitjǫndum sigr.

Hęilir æsir,
hęilar ǫ́synjur,
hęil sjá hin fjǫlnýta fold,
mál ok manvit
gefið okr mærum tvęim
ok læknishęndr, meðan lifum.

English 

Hail, day!
Hail, sons of day!
And night and her daughters
With loving eyes 
Look upon us 
And grant us victory.

Hail to the gods!
Hail to the goddesses! 
And all the generous giving earth. 
Grant us wisdom
Good speech 
And healing hands for all our lives.





O come Sigdrifa

Through winter's veil, our loved ones near,
As Yuletide blessings flow,
Ancient spirits guide us here,
Through circles in the snow.

From hearth to home the Yule log burns,
Through evergreen and night,
As wheel of time forever turns,
Our hearts hold sacred light.

Through winter's veil, our loved ones near,
As Yuletide blessings flow,
Ancient spirits guide us here,
Through circles in the snow.

Salt-dough stars and wreaths of pine,
Upon our sacred tree,
The old ones bless your hands and mine,
As it was meant to be.

Remember us in frost and flame,
Our love remains the same.

Through winter's veil, our loved ones near,
As Yuletide blessings flow,
Ancient spirits guide us here,
Through circles in the snow.


Circles in the Snow

A revisitation , rearrangement and reimagining of  my 1994 composition, The Bells of Yule

The Bells of Yuletides Past

A reimagining of The First Noel, a pagan carol for the midwinter. 
Sharing the folklore of winter, and the winter gods, Oðinn, the Norns, Baldur . Hel, Skaði and Ullr 

Winter's Spell - Heathen First Noel

"Bring Home the Yule" is a brooding, ritualistic Nordic-folk anthem that resurrects the ancient pagan Yule log tradition. With marching drums, deep chants, and haunting minor melodies, it follows a clan hauling a sacred oak through the snow to burn for twelve nights, driving back winter’s darkness, warding off evil, and coaxing the sun’s return. It feels like a thousand-year-old fireside ceremony you can still smell the smoke from.

Bring Home the Yule

I love yule, and just want to listen to some great Yule songs

Spirits in the Snow

I'm still building an album of cool classic holiday music but Yule oriented. 

Yule Lights and Nervous Nights

A soundscape of compiled field recordings and records from the internet archive inspired by the Pagan winter festival of Yule

Yule Soundscape

Hello, and thank you for listening. I don't really have a single genre that I aspire to create. It's mainly just what I'm feeling in the moment. My muse draws inspiration from every direction. My musical voyage takes me on journeys both internal and external, journeys whose results I can't always predict.

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Mercules is a software engineer by day, diving deep into code with unbridled enthusiasm. By night, he's a passionate music lover channeling his daily grind, inner thoughts, fears, bold attitudes, and unfiltered opinions into raw, introspective tracks. If you want to truly know Mercules? Hit play—his music tells the story words alone can't capture.

Two song writers, two kindred spirits... that found each other by pure happenstance and great fortune, to collaborate and create music together.
To see our separate artist pages, please click on the following links:
Nat Daniels   https://soundcloud.com/natdaniels
Craig Durgy  https://soundcloud.com/durge

Canadian composer and electronic music artist.

Many of these works broadcast across Australia on ABC Radio National (when I lived there before coming home to Canada during COVID)
Did music for WebTV / MSNTV in the 90s. Annoyed millions!
Prolific tracker composer. Played a few chiptune concerts. In some art packs.

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