My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  My Aztec ancestors watching me put marshmallows and peppermint in my hot chocolate like “da fuck?”

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• Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What? Milk and chocolate? Another shocking discovery that cultures vary. In Sweden it would be porridge for the hustomte (house gnome), at least in my experience

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder if these old traditions started out as a way to leave food out for the homeless or destitute. In some countries there is a tradition of leaving a seat empty at the Christmas table for itinerants and travelers. I traveled a lot through Asia and they leave food and drink out before statues of deities and idols, and I have seen on many occasions the homeless taking the food and eating it, and I doubt anyone would have minded had they seen them do it.

    Just a meandering thought…

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Afaik we don’t put out any food on Christmas for the Christ child nor on the 6th for St. Nicolas in Germany. We only put clean boots in front of the front door for St. Nicolas to fill.

    Filling of the boots just happens over night.

    Gifts under Christmas tree just spawn during Christmas eve. Or they are “still there from Christmas eve” when they are exchanged on a visit during the Christmas holidays (25th and 26th). On 24th the room got locked and it was only opened after a bell rung 🤔

    Although there should be regional differences, especially for religious reasons. Christ child isn’t used everywhere afaik. By now the Christ child rather gets depicted as a blonde angel and doesn’t look like depictions of Christ. It doesn’t really matter how an angel enters a locked room. There is also Christmas man which is used as a translation for Santa Clause. He basically acts like the Christ child, but looks like Coca-Cola’s fat Nicolas. (I guess drinking Coca-Cola does that to you). Although there are many color versions of St Nicolas and he is actually supposed do wear a miter, but that part is lost more and more. St. Nicolas was a bishop and supposed to look like a bishop.

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  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In the UK it’s a mince pie and a glass of some booze (traditionally sherry) and a carrot for the reindeer.

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• BC_viper@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe they should bring gifts.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    last time they did a gift exchange they all got sick and died. 😐

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    • Ininewcrow@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My ancestors did that with these clowns for the first few hundred years and it reduced the population by 80 percent!

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• Jeeptrap@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Give it away, now

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  • Ininewcrow@piefed.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Choose not a life of imitation
    Distant cousin to the reservation

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      <to the tune of the song of the same name by the Red Hot Chili Peppers>
    

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• smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve been offering corn and onions, but that made them angry somehow.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Maybe try beans next

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• HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  These are offerings to deities in their own right. Modern societies miss day-to-day rites that connect people with the supernatural

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  • tomiant@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Like carving out the still beating hearts of captives with athames and kicking their corpses down the stairs of step pyramids.

    We truly have lost our sense of spirituality.

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