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My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Ininewcrow@piefed.ca⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Stop calling me that. I’m not that short!

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      • toeblast96@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        stop cleaning my house behind my back❗❗❗

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    • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We put out nog and cookies for Santa (me I’m the dad now) and carrots for the reindeer.

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  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • BC_viper@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Maybe they should bring gifts.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • Ininewcrow@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • titanicx@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a native American. This meme is idiotic. Maybe choose a Viking or a pagan or sort that would be making offerings.

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    • acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The OP is native American.

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      • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        When the native americans forget there isn’t just one native american culture and every tribe had different customs and beliefs.

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  • Jeeptrap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Give it away, now

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    • Ininewcrow@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Choose not a life of imitation
      Distant cousin to the reservation

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      • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        In time, I want to be your best friend
        East Side love is living on the West End

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    • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe try beans next

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      • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Or vans.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My ancestors when I don’t burn incense and the fake “heaven money” thingy.

    They must not have money to spend up there…

    Wait a minute… “heaven” is capitalistic too? 💀

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  • HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not all natives were the aztecs.

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  • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Tradition is peer pressure of the dead.

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  • Knitwear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not proud, I’ll admit I ignored the meme because I had to immediately Google image search the hottie. His name is Rodney A. Grant.

    For whoever else silently wondered, you’re welcome

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