
Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas
Behind the Bastards
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The Power of Syncretism
Yule is famed for the wild hunt, especially the Canadian 2009 film called the wild hunt. The missile toe garlands are an incredibly potent fertility symbol because it's like the semen tree or whatever. This was like in the 18th century, people were like, you want to bring that witch shit back into this? And everyone's like, yeah, I do. Like let's make out under the fucking under God's semen.
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