Hello Dreamers,
I want to wish everyone happiness in whatever form it takes for you.
Like a lot of people, I celebrate and support Christmas the secular. I mean, what's wrong with an excuse to party? Buying stuff for people and eating fancy food on the darkest week of the year?
I'm not foolish enough to think there is magic in this day. Any illusion of 'magic' dissipated the moment i realised that Santa isn't real and the Christian reason for the holiday is nothing more than Catholic propaganda to get people to not celebrate Yule, the pagan holiday modern Christmas is based on. Add this to the increased commercialisation of the season to the point where some people equate money spent as a measure of love and its easy to think this day is manufactured by the powers that be to mess with us.
By no means is the blending of Christendom and paganism a bad thing. Cultural fusion is suppose to happen when two people's combine. If such doesn't happen that due to apartheid policies enforced by one group. The only issue I have with it is watching hardcore Christians complain about paganism while celebrating rebranded Yule as if its been a thing since Jesus, invented by Christians, pine trees and all.
If you want an elegant example of this, the Huron Carol. For my American friends, the Huron Carol is a Christmas Carol loaded with Native Imagery. Its a retelling of the Bethlehem story.
Much like how Champion of Seasons is a high-fantasy retelling of the Persephone story using imagery more associated with Canada than Greece. In Ancient Greece, Persephone being with her husband meant the land became scorched and in drought, which was their 'dead' season. In Canada the dead season is in fact so cold the rain freezes before falling to the ground.
Something I want people to remember going forward, and looking back. Things will mix and blend, and that is a good thing. Trying to maintain cultural purity is a fool's errand, for even in apartheid states culture and traditions march in step with time.
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