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.
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
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.
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
Hell yeah. Love it. I fucking hate 19th century German nationalism.