Reason for the Season: Xmas before Christ

Fortress of Lugh, 12/15/21: Pat Macpherson, Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

These customs are mirrored in Asia with Budai Bodhisattva (a rotund Buddhist monk) the "fat happy Buddha" giving small gifts or candy from a sack he carries around in his jolliness.

Christmas before Christ: Yule and other Northern European traditions

(Fortress of Lugh) Let's take a look at Slavic, Baltic, Celtic, and Germanic Yuletide (Christmastime) traditions and their similarities and origins, with a special focus on Yule, as well as the nature of Santa Claus [the magic mushroom shaman of the Sami, the Native Swedes, distributing the Amanita muscaria harvest distributed among villagers living in yurts and with chimneys being the door/entrance where the shaman would come in, give out the mushrooms which needed to be dried and so were put in stocking and hung over the fire to dehydrate].

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