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Special Holidays Fun fact: Christmas started out as the Pagan holiday Yule (or Yuletide), celebrated in pre-Christian Rome as the birthday of the God of the Sun, Mithra. As Christianity was taking over Rome, post-Christian Rome decided to create Christmas, and name it as the birthday of Jesus, due to the day being the birthday of the previously mentioned God of the Sun. It wasn’t until later, the Germanic People incorporated the traditions of Yule within Christmas during the Christianisation of the Germanic peoples, around the 9th Century, which is also when Christmas really began to take off. However, Yule, and by extension the Winter Solstice, is not so much Christmas and they are two separate Holidays, despite Christmas taking similar traditions (gift giving, decorations, etc). There is something called Icelandic Christmas Folklore, which is less Christmas and more Yule based. We have the Yule Lads, the Yule Cat, Grylla— so it’s not really a Christmas thing as it is a Yule-Pagan thing. And Christmas and Yule are two separate holidays now, and not just having Yule be another name for Christmas since Christmas is Christian and Yule is Pagan but you can celebrate any of that even though you’re not that religion. I think Yule is cooler though cause we get Yule log cake, we get cool mythology in the Icelandic Christmas (Yule) mythology, and I just like the fact that Yule lasts longer than Christmas- Christmas is like two days maximum (Christmas and it’s Eve). But nice little holidays fun fact xD
DefenderofHyrule
@1-800-WITCHB1TCH Yes, I watched it on the history channel years ago. Very interesting.
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@Some_RandomBookworm Its cause im a nerd and its fun to just rant about things i know xD Plus, i like helping people out xD
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