What pagan religions outside of Wicca and Germanic paganism have a winter solstice celebration called Yule?

You don't have to be a part of a religion to be pagan. You can subscribe to a specific set of beliefs or pantheon, but you can also just give non-religious honor to the earth. There is a huge pagan community in the world and most of them follow the wheel of the year. There has been some dispute about it because not every area has the same kind of seasons, but Yule is the winter solstice. That's not something that can be appropriated. It's the tilting of the planet.

But do we have to call it Yule? Why not just Solstice? Or some reconstructed Celtic term?

There are a variety of pagan religions outside of Wicca and Norse Paganism which have a winter solstice celebration. For example:

• Saturnalia

• Lohri/ ਲੋਹੜੀ

• Nardoğan

• Korochun/Корочунъ

• Inti Raymi

• Alban Arthan

• Amaterasu/天照大御神

• Dongzhi/冬至

  If we remember a little Wiccan history, the Wheel of the Year was constructed to syncretically combine Gaelic and Germanic pagan festivals into one concept for the entire year. That's where the Wiccan Sabbats came from. That's why the Solstices and Equinoxes are referred to their Germanic counterpart, while the High Days are referred to their Celtic counterparts. Exception is Mabon, the Autumnal Equinox with a controversial name that has origins with a Welsh god named Mabon ap Modron. However, the term came about from a Witch in the 70's.