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🕑 Added 2024-12-23 15:48:44 +0000 UTC
Where does the Christmas Tree grow from 🎄
It is no longer a secret that many Christmas traditions familiar to Europeans came to us from the pagan traditions of celebrating Yule ❄️
Yule is a midwinter holiday. In honor of the longest night of the year, a great holiday was held, as the medieval Germans expected the revival of the Oak King, who warmed the frozen earth and awakened life in the seeds stored in its bosom throughout the long winter 🌳
It was a very large-scale and joyful holiday, so its traces can be seen in our culture to this day 🤓 One of the most striking examples is the Yule log, which the ancient Germans installed in their homes or yard - they decorated it with beautiful things and put various gifts (presents) under it, does it remind you of anything? 😅
Then, during the Christianization of Europe, something had to be done with pagan holidays and the wise rulers decided to simply assimilate the existing traditions, slightly changing their meaning so that it would be more suitable for the current rhetoric 😸 The Yule Log was also not ignored and a legend about Saint Boniface appeared: as a missionary, he was engaged in “educational” activities and in one of these campaigns he decided to cut down the sacred tree for the Germans, the Oak of Donar, to show that the Germanic Gods are powerless before God alone. (As for me, the action is quite cruel, even if Boniface had good intentions) According to legend, the evergreen tree grew in place of the felled oak, thereby showing the pagans how its triangular shape reminds of the Trinity and how it points to heaven 🌲
We do not know whether this really happened and under what circumstances, but from that moment on, the Spruce increasingly became a symbol and the main guest of all winter holidays among the Germans, and then spread throughout Europe and the world - bringing with it a lot of joy, beauty and gifts for children and adults✨
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