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

Behind the Bastards

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Are You the Lord of Misrule?

In medieval England, a random peasant would you draw lots again? And instead of being the king of Saturnalia, you are the lord of misrule. It is the single best title that one could possibly have and their job is to make sure the revelry was fucking chaos. Eat dinner at the altar of the church. Fucking drink. One of those is much more similar to like the Saturnalia role reversal thing. Yeah. The other one is just child abuse. There's more role reversal. That'm a hard thing to say. I don't know. What is going on? You can do drugs more than once during your lifetime. Typically, unless you are again Jesus Christ,

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