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Captain Sweden said:
This website questions whether X-Mas really is a Christian holiday:

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sbs777/vital/xmas.html

Though I'm happy with celebrating X-Mas as a continuation of Saint Nikolaus:

http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/nikolaus.htm



So we have the fire god Baal to thank for Christmas trees. I knew that many aspects of Christmas originated from Pagans but it's shocking just how much of it truly has little to do with Christianity.

They do a big Saturnalia celebration every year just outside my door & it's almost indistinguishable from a Christmas celebration except for open hearths on all the street corners.



In Sweden, we eat "Christmas ham", which of course comes from the Vikings tradition of eating ham during Yuletide, and the myth about the pig that never died at Valhalla. Christmas is called "Jul" here as well.

My mum, who is originally from Slovakia and is Catholic (more or less I suppose), half-jokes about how her mother would turn in her tomb if she knew that her daughter ate ham during Christmas Eve.

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