The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
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The Role of Sobriety in the Institution of Slavery
"If it's meant to be an inversion of normality then anything you do is by definition the the opposite of what's normal for that culture so it's like an autopsy-turvy day" "I don't know if the good world to women come from it though I wouldn't know if I'd go that far because I'm pretty sure that's interestingYeah it's very it's clearly got a Christian thing," she says. "[Saturnalia] could quasily serve the function of sort of uh cementing in the institution of slavery even moreYou know everyone knows all parties know that this is a sort of a fun and games role reversal."
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