The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
Survive the Jive Podcast
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The Role of the Virgin Mother in the Christmas Story
In medieval times they had like christmas plays where people would reenact scenes from the bible miracle plays. These were very um silly and sort of not canonical and kind of seem to refer back to earlier forms of revelry that occurred before christianity as well. That actually also resonants with with uh what we know about the the religion of the Germanic people's Like the angler sachsens because bedder bead he mentions a celebration called modranit which means night of the mothers so this form of ancestor worship.
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