
The Pagan roots of Christmas - Yule and Saturnalia
Survive the Jive Podcast
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The History of Christmas
Linguists believe that the french root of jolly actually comes from you yoli something so it might even mean to be like christmassy yoli jolly yeah i think that just while you were speaking there it sort of popped into my head that the whole associations with kingliness. The nativity story has so many themes that were familiar already with the yule type thing like you've got this king of king's thing but then also you've got the three kings in the nativity scene. It marries up quite nicely doesn't it like a very nice thing in fact um and and how that transition of of yore was taken over into christ mass the mass of christ being sort
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