• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    What about the one where we celebrate nailing a guy to a tree by distributing eggs via a bunny.

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      18 hours ago

      Well, actually, we celebrate the guy becoming zombie three days after nailing him to wood.
      Also, the guy is often called “the lamb”.
      So we naturally eat roasted lamb as a traditional celebration, while the bunnies hide colored eggs for us to search.

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        17 hours ago

        Technically, he retained his powers after resurrection, so he was a Lich, not a zombie. I don’t know if anyone figured out his phylactery, but my best bet would be the wood he was nailed to.

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          14 hours ago

          And so it was decided to transform some bread into his flesh using ritual magics to partake of the lichs power

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      16 hours ago

      I mean, a guy sneaking into your house at night and leaving you “presents” under a tree you’ve cut down and brought into your house for no other reason has to be up there too, right?

      And don’t get me started on how fucked up Thanksgiving is.

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        Not to mention that Santa is a prolific home-wrecker, as millions of children have witnessed him making out with one of their parents’ partners.

        Probably the weirdest thing to me about Thanksgiving is that it wasn’t even remotely real in the sense of being founded on a historically coherent event. Perhaps this is just the nature of mythology. Thanksgiving was a religious fasting ritual at the time. Sharing a meal with indigenous people was a coincidence during a harvest festival, which isn’t exclusive to any one religion or even spirituality at all. It’s two, entirely unrelated things that got crammed into a single tradition because they occur roughly during the same season. Also, there was a lot of ethnic cleansing before and after, but that doesn’t go well with primary school history class, so let’s leave that bit out.