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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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The Germanic Pagan Style of Sacrifice

The name Yule literally means Odin. There's a lot of stories about prisoners of war from Rome being human sacrificed. I'm more worried about offending the Norweeboos than the Christians in terms of people who are going to get up in my mentions about this shit. But, and when they would do these sacrifices, called Blot, it was the Germanic pagan style of sacrifice.

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