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2 Jan 2008, 14:32
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Well, I've got an assignment on school which is christmas related, and I have to answer the following questions and give arguments with it why I answered it.
The question is: Are food, the christ stable, decorative lights, and the christmas tree which are used in christmas, pre-christian, christian, or contemporary?
I have no clue about the question on the food, anyone here has a clue?
Thanks in advance.
The question is: Are food, the christ stable, decorative lights, and the christmas tree which are used in christmas, pre-christian, christian, or contemporary?
I have no clue about the question on the food, anyone here has a clue?
Thanks in advance.
the tree and lights and food was a part of some old ritual which had something to do with light, not sure how it was called of who invented it...and it's a party where they would make sure there was enough food/drinks for every1 to celebrate the naturegod of light or something...i remember it vaguely but i do remember that the ppl who invented it were worshipping naturegods for something that had to do with light and the christrians who tried to christianise those ppl kept that ritual and made it into a christiantradition
an exmaple could be that a lot of families choose lamb/beef/pork instead of turkey because they prefer taste > tradition lolz
EDIT: And I think it's pre christian, the website I found certainly references Celtic traditions in the 9th century. http://www.foodtimeline.org/christmasfood.html
The stable could be the konjunction with the birth of jesus and food itself/a rest, peace and fairness of that time and is therefore flawed and extremly excredential.
I could write a book about the christmas lights, or I could write nothing, so I wont bother.
The tree links with the romans weapons and/or the wooden cross which jesus, to christian believes, was crusified upon, which after a certain amount of time led to his "revival" or "reincarnation" as could be seen as a second birth which therefore leads back to the food part and is again flawed and extremly excredential.
Alternatively it could link with the male genitial and the process of baby making and therefore konjuncts with the food part and is therefore again flawed and extremly excredential.
So my final answer is that they are both pre-christian and contemporary as they represent actions that will be repeated and re-repeated for ethernity due to the fact of "real" time.
But on a more simple basis they are all simply contemporary if you think time is a line clinging to the shores of Atlantis the legendary lore.
All this is just "IMHO".