The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
Survive the Jive Podcast
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The Role Reversal of the Slave Owners
The role reversal of the slaves and the owners is something that actually as well as occurring in ancient Rome there's records that this is what people in England did in the early modern period like you know in the 15th or 16th century. People then had a lord of misrule just like that and they would usually find the stupidest guy in the village and elect him as the lord of mis rule for the day. The way it was practiced in the second century BC would probably be quite different to how it's practiced 500 years later we don't celebrate christmas in exactly the same way.
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