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haven't really been seeing them see you now available. Wherever you get. My guests welcomes stuff. You missed in history class from house of works, dot com, hello and welcome to the PAN Cast anchor. Remember an unfair, doubting Sarah and I are both getting really excited about Christmas. Talking about her favorite tradition is every year I take my grandmother to midnight math on Christmas Eve and not. I didn't really feels like Christmas day. For me, it's picking out of the austrian decorating getting out of the old man The ornaments they each have their own story, and that's probably my favorite part of Christmas, but if you're looking for a different way to celebrate this year, you'd like to introduce you to Saturnalia it's a pretty off

roman festival. As far as Christmas goes its pretty easy to imagine it as this one long tradition that just goes all the way back to the birth of Christ, but that's not really how it happened. Yet Thank you have the nativity and then the December twenty fifth date and the gift giving from the three kings are wise man, but yeah. That's that's! Not what works. The history of Christmas actually predates the birth of Christ. I something not a bit of a mystery there's, so we have winter solstice celebrations going on from a very time go early European celebrated the literal rebirth of the fund as the days started get longer, and they would do things that sound can Christmassy Lake EAST on livestock that couldn't be cut through the winter

and the german pagans of course, had Odin that scary God, who flew through the night, cursing summoned a blessing others. So like a really horrible version of sad Santa Claus and then the north celebrate your tide which, at its simple burning a giant you'll log for about a their cell until it turns to ash, but that's not as good. Saturnalia can learn about wise and the early fourth century. Christians thought so too. They needed a good December holiday of their own, chose a date that was nearer the festival of Saturnalia December twenty fifth, which was also be birthday of the God. Myths and at the time the religion of Mithraism was a big competitor for Christianity, which is funny took the cult of methods is celebrating the birth of their infant God of lie on the twenty fifth. So again, it's way to absorb a pagan holiday and make it into something more christian, but yeah. So the

early Christians start celebrating the feast many activities on December. Twenty fifth and right around Saturnalia and therefore it takes up a lot of the rockies traits of the Roman, faster, so much so that a lot of Christian think it's blasphemous to be so crazy. In was celebrating crisis oh right in the middle ages, Christians but go to church, and then they would party like it was. De Graf after that, for days and days and days and pick a Lord of Misrule, a beggar student and poor people would show. Rich houses and demand good food, and it was just a complete So we have Oliver Cromwell cancelling Christmas. Twenty grand Vizier controller of England, the soldiers even patrol the street, looking for people cooking meet tonight, and the Puritans in

New England Ban at you. It's not celebrate in Boston from sixteen fifty nine, sixteen eighty one! So that's a pretty boring stretch of winters there in Boston, It finally get a little tamer more like what we know today by the late eighteenth century and that's where we pick up others hurry and traditions which are so the staple of Mr Christmas celebrations today may, but let's pretend for just a second that Saturnalia one out over Christmas on? What would it be like so the basics of Saturnalia? It's on the winter solstice? He said and its to honour, the God of the harvest. Saturn said Amelia, usually held December, seventeenth to twenty four other. Originally it was just one day right, yeah, Anne and then it was extended to a week and then I think Augusta's tried to cut it down to three days because he didn't like the court, Spain, clothes people, people didn't go for that. Their colleague elaborate a back to five, but everyone pretty much did with a wide for weak anyways, so

it. Was Saturnalia all about, though I mean who is sadder. And why did he knew to be celebrated with this feast of merriment? Will he of course, rolled down the golden age of man? When everything was wonderful, the lions lay down with the lambs greek mythology, his cronies, and you might know him from the rather distress enjoy a painting where you have this ravenous eating his children, because saddling dead just that, he believed that one of his children would eventually overthrow him so to come, say for that. He ate most of them said his wife sneak away wine Jupiter were Zeus: who eventually does every throne we left fly during Saturnalia the creepy child eating and focus on that golden it. Man grain, and this was a wholly day that it was also this week of

staying and merrymaking, and it was everybody's favorite holiday, could tell us that it was the best of days and sir, and I have decided through our research that there is no party like a Saturnalia party and approve it. We have a quote from Lucien, though Lucien said of Saturnalia during I weak, the serious is barred, no business allowed drinking noise and game. Dice appointed of kings and feasting of slave singing naked clapping a frenzied hands, an occasional ducking of court, faces an icy water. Such are the functions over which I side. I would like to preside over the clapping a frenzied hand here that some pretty good, I don't know about the ducking of court, faces an icy. Why I want no part of The nice thing about Saturnalia for us would be that businesses were closed. Schools were closed, courts were closed and absolutely were not allowed to start any battles or any wars see we're just gonna have to put it off for weak. Finnegan kind of complaining said

the whole mob, had let it felt go and pleasures and that's basically what Saturnalia was was also to celebrate the golden age of man when men were equal therewith, so appending of social position read everything with topsy turvy slaves didn't have to work. They could wear their masters clothing play where life right. You will gambling public, which normally was considered it now children, command adults and, interestingly, given area which was a feast and honour friends, children with nearby held around the same time and you are allowed to wear your synthesis to dinner instead of your Togo which we think sounds very nice. It was much less formal and bit flimsy and material and colorful raid in December, I don't know about that. You could also pull at your place, which was felt cap that normally freed slaves

but to celebrate and recognise the freedom of thought or nearly everybody could wear their special felt cap. I, when I love this part, you you could lord of misrule. So once you your Lord of misrule. He could command people to do pretty much anything he wanted them to annual ahead to a bay. But of course, like Christmas, there is up sometimes burden of presence that you had to get for everybody. Usually they were wax candles which signified the return of light after the solstice, or sometimes these little earthenware figures or faces But if you had to spend a lot for certain people made one or two coy read, it will be about a tenth of your income, so start savings there. If you were in candles or like earthenware figurines to your friends? You could give em jars of plum or what else,

silverware, perhaps or solution socks from the beard of the fetid goat, witches from on my left as from a really hilarious economist article in Saturnalia, if you can find it, and even if your singing O holding night Saturnalia. You could have a chance, like perhaps you, Saturnalia Yo Saturnalia, which I think is our new holiday greeting few bargaining here is yelling that are no longer understand at our offer. The Christmas party just wait, forgive office party. They left this account from always jellia. They think that it's how his name's pronounced and his Roman France, who would gather in the Athens Bateson Queasy, other on the ancient poet, and if you didn't get it right, the crown of Laura was dedicated to fatten, reminded me about our Holiday Office party. Last year we had a quiz game around can this? Actually, our former stuff you missed in history class co host was really fantastic, dead or alive and

he's the asked about a very enthusiastic and a lot of our favorite information about Saturnalia comes from Macrobiosis work, the Saturnalia, which is supposed to be. An account of discussions and private houses the day before and on the days festival. Yeah right. Well, I think that's about it. Katy and I need to start getting ready. First, Saturnalia elevation have to give him a synthesis here. You look good for men are now, though, to Oliver listeners. Merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, one happy holidays and happy Saturnalia, and if you want to learn more about Christmas or the history of Christmas, you should check out how much work written by me on your homepage at W W W thought has to work. Stockholm

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