The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
Survive the Jive Podcast
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The Complex Layering of Christmas Traditions
With it is Dickensian like Dickens has been massively influential on global ideas of christmas the raw family adopting christmas trees from germans who adopted them from baltic people. A lot of it's just from the 19th century but as you say this is layering underneath the victorian there is elements of satinalia elements of yu elements of the nativity story Obviously the victorians are very christian still but these different things are complicatedly woven together.
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