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The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia

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Saturnalia and the Role of Slave Role Reversal

I think maybe if we had some sort of terrible apocalyptic disaster and 10,000 years from now we started trying to piece together what christmas was in the early 21st century they come up with all really random misleading things. I just think that's an interesting point to make out that the out our view of Roman Saxon audio is sort of a little bit piecemeal yeah it certainly is. We have actually quite a lot of evidence and I can show I can talk through some of it with you but once you piece it all together it's hard to get a clear picture of what it waswhat elements were always there in which weren't because there's so many different things going on.

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