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Friday, December 25, 2020
Pagans: A History of Christmas (video)
(Lindsay Holiday, 12/17/19) Bring in the figgy pudding! From Odin to Queen Victoria, Christian usurpers to American capitalists, here's how Xmas has changed over the centuries.
The traditional Christmas means family and friends gather around a fire, exchanging gifts, getting buzzed on mead, upturning the established social order, threatening violence to any and all party poopers, and children waiting in terror for their yuletide whipping!
Wait, that's not quite what most of us were taught! The history of the midwinter holiday now called "Christ mass" is much longer and spookier than most of us would ever think.
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