
UnHerd Christmas Special: Christmas is a time for chaos
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
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Saturnalia
Saturnalia was around the 23rd of December. It's about the shortest day of the year, isn't it? So I think the solstice is around 21st, 22nd. There was a kind of chaotic, you're saying that slave would be appointed a kind of temporary king as like an inversion of the normal order. That's what we're supposed to feel at the darkest day of theyear. Exactly right.
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