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Part One: Keep the Yuletide Gay: Saturnalia & the Puritan War on Christmas

Behind the Bastards

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The Tree of Life

The Yule tree, the Christmas tree, you'll be shocked to know comes from Yule. The burning of the Yule log comes from this tradition. And also decorating the tree with nuts is probably a fertility thing. It obsessed with sex. What's wrong with these people? One problem with researching anything pagan is that there's a ton of fake history around and or not even like fake history, but like incorrect information which could present it as fact.

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