The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
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The History of Yule
The Indians had a royal horse sacrifice in ancient India called the Ashvamirta which is enormous like hundreds of animals being slaughtered and it was took place not annually but sometimes for a king to show how you know great he was. Just like Yule which took place on the full moon after the new moon of the second of the two month of Yule. The Anglo-Saxons and Norse both celebrated a kind of uh similar thing because they were pagan times.
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