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  • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Nice comment, but I just wanted to say, the Christmas tree isn’t a sacrificial log, not because of anything else, but because there’s exactly no evidence to show that it ever was part of a Yule holiday or festival. In fact, Christmas trees don’t show up until a few hundred years ago, in Germanic areas.

    • Vncredleader
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      10 months ago

      And the idea that it was a pagan symbol is strictly from German nationalists in the mid 1800s trying to explicitly form a continuity for the German Volk. It is literal Ariosophy