>the Christmas Man
Wow, Germany you just love living up to those stereotypes, huh?
The Christmas Man
Lincoln Gray
Jaxon Myers
Senelis is also the diminutive of "old man", not necessarily "grandfather".
Dominic Watson
Why did Scandinavians steal Yule?
Luis Morgan
>Babbo Natale
Ian Rodriguez
>Daddy Christmas
Lol
Aaron Cox
>Yule Goat
finland knocks another one out of the park
Chase Edwards
Yes, what about it?
John White
Old Man Christmas
Andrew Lewis
Logan Baker
>Santa Klaws
What.
Leo Miller
>Daddy Christmas
Lucas Myers
>Christmas Log
Blake Richardson
>Christ Mass
>not YULE
REEEEEEE
Dylan Harris
sounds german t b h
Jack Young
>time of good ones
Lucas Thomas
Post yfw you realized Santa means Saint
Nathaniel Bailey
Scatalans have a pooping boy in their nativity scenes, hence Christmas Log
Liam Rodriguez
Santa Claus is just a funny way of saying Saint Nicholas
Blake Allen
No, that's a completely different thing. The Christmas Log is an actual log.
>>Beginning with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception (December 8), one gives the tió a little bit to "eat" every night and usually covers him with a blanket so that he will not be cold. The story goes that in the days preceding Christmas, children must take good care of the log, keeping it warm and feeding it, so that it will defecate presents on Christmas Day.
>>On Christmas Day or, in some households, on Christmas Eve, one puts the tió partly into the fireplace and orders it to defecate. The fire part of this tradition is no longer as widespread as it once was, since many modern homes do not have a fireplace. To make it defecate, one beats the tió with sticks, while singing various songs of Tió de Nadal.
Ethan Powell
>biblical magi
Lmao Spain has a BIBLE MAGE
Jonathan Davis
Be nice or you'll only get birch twigs
Hunter Rogers
>To make it defecate, one beats the tió with sticks
Asher Powell
For me it's Spain
Jordan Wright
Well hat is due to St Nicholas having his own day and the american santa claus just being a bastardisation of that, mixed with Knecht Ruprecht/Krampus stuff.
>t. lore expert.
Jace Adams
It’s three Kong’s day from what I recall. It’s actually on the 6th of January (supposedly when the 3 kings visited Jesus). There’s a huge celebration.
Noah Ramirez
>biblical magi
oh fuck
Logan Clark
what's so funny about that
those were the 3 magi that sent gifts to christ, mary and joseph
Dominic Rodriguez
Not fair desu, we have our own Santa in the form of Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas, see Poland).
Daniel Brooks
I wonder how did the author come up with that interpretation. It seems to me like it should translate to something like "little Christmas man". The name combines Božič and -ek. Božič means Christmas and literally means "the son of god" (Bog + -ič, the Slavic suffix for son) and -ek is a diminutive suffix.
In any case, he's just one of three gift givers, the other two being Miklavž (like the Slovak example) and Dedek Mraz (see eastern Slavs).
Jacob Cruz
>Dzmer Papik
Charles Lopez
>three Kong’s
Can confirm. They throw barrels full of presents and the kids must jump over them to keep the presents inside.
Isaiah Bell
Based
James Phillips
no its the christ child
Nicholas Walker
Please don't mock my traditions
Luke Gonzalez
You guys are the Japan of Europe, t.b.h
>>Baby jumping (El Colacho) is a traditional Spanish holiday dating back to 1620 that takes place annually to celebrate the Catholic feast of Corpus Christi in Burgos.[1][2] During the act, known as El Salto del Colacho (the devil's jump) or simply El Colacho, men dressed as the Devil (known as the Colacho) in red and yellow jump suits jump over babies born during the previous twelve months of the year who lie on mattresses in the street. The "devils" hold whips and oversized castanets as they jump bravely over the unaware infants.
>> The origins of the tradition are unknown but it is said to cleanse the babies of original sin, ensure them safe passage through life and guard against illness and evil spirits.[4][5][6] In recent years, Pope Benedict has asked Spanish priests to distance themselves from El Colacho, and to downplay the tradition’s connection with Catholicism. The Church still teaches that it is baptism by water, not a giant leap by an airborne devil, which cleanses the soul of original sin.[7]
Daniel Cox
Ryan Gonzalez
>Scatalans literally believe a magic log will shit presents into the fireplace
Christopher White
Nobody does this in catalonia, nor have I ever even heard of it.
I was talking about Tió, who has defacto become the patron saint of my nation.
William Taylor
it should be Befana
Zachary King
What about those digits?
Nicholas Kelly
WATA SHI WA BLACKU, WHITU PIGGU
Eli Young
Why are you guys so obsessed with poop?
Oliver Garcia
Reminder santa is an invention of coca cola, and everyone who has father christmas in this list is an americanized shithole.
Nolan Phillips
I guess rural people used to do it in order to fertilize the fields and barcelona urbanites started mocking them for it so hard it became self-deprecating national banter.
dunno really.
Noah Flores
based
Xavier Brown
What is Yule
Brody Edwards
why does dutch santa own slaves?
Isaiah Bennett
this
Andrew Nelson
it has always been yule, or jól
Elijah Cox
Wtf Spain is cool
Parker Ross
pagan practice which became assimilated into christmas
>Scholars have connected the celebration to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Mōdraniht. It later underwent Christianized reformulation resulting in the term Christmastide.
Cameron Gray
>saint basil
Well fuck you, Greece.
Luke Hall
>Noo Niglus
Thomas Nguyen
This. Christians should start celebrating their stupid "Christ Mass" on 7th January like all the Orthodox countries and Coptic Christians in Egypt.
Celebrating it on 25th of December makes it a PAGAN festival of winter solstice, which should then be called Yule.
Jaxson Clark
it's actually saturnalia dumb nordoid
Kayden Sanchez
Romans had their own separate pagan festivities, stupid monkey.
Eli Sanders
>saturnalia
cringe
Elijah Johnson
fucking larping retards
Christopher Watson
Myth, there are modern depicts of Santa predating any coke Santa campaign.
Jason Myers
That's it.
Get into the pot RIGHT NOW. I'll get the spices.
Gavin Ortiz
Orthodogs adopted Koliada and turned it into christmas celebration on 7th of january
Owen Kelly
It's kind of cool though
Elijah Scott
So chr*stians have stolen yet another PAGAN festival for their own needs.
Colour me surprised.
Wyatt Taylor
It's the corrupted mutt Coca-Cola version of Sinterklaas.
Aiden Reed
because deep down in their heart, they know that they are german
Brody Perez
jesus fuck
thing looks horrifying
Pretty sure I killed a couple in Witcher 3
Blake Cooper
>Kolotun Babaj
Jeremiah Smith
>he's a goat in Finland
Based
Camden James
>An arab,a med and a nord break into your house at night to give you presents
Aaron Morris
>Grandfather Frost
Based as fuck
Asher Stewart
Dead Morose
Kevin Murphy
>His country doesnt have 2 days of presents,one for the Reyes Magos and another one for Santa
Why even celebrate christmas
Ethan Bell
Kaliady originally celebrated on 25 of December too. The summer solstice version of it is Kupalle (Ivan Kupala)
Nathaniel Parker
>2
>not 3
Git gud
Joseph Reyes
>Дeдa Mpaз
Ы
Jaxon Bell
Based Finland
Austin Diaz
We celebrate Driekoningen but we don't give presents but have a pie with a bean in it and the one who gets a piece with the bean wins.
Nathaniel Russell
We also eat this in christmas called "Roscon de Reyes",it has either a bean or a figurine inside and whoever finds it while eating it wins,careful not to swallow the figurine
Connor Robinson
Christopher Torres
I mean it clearly shows that Yule isn't Indo-Nigger, but Finnic.
Luis Reed
we're not the only ones who hate kids and parties
Lucas Taylor
>Daddy Christmas
hot
Colton Richardson
Brayden Mitchell
We force kids to beat up a piece of wood
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Owen Cox
Justin Lopez
>IT'S REAL
Ayden Scott
>derived from Common Germanic *jeχʷla-, and are cognate with Gothic (fruma) jiuleis; Old Norse, Icelandic, Faroese and Norwegian Nynorsk jól, jol, ýlir; Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian Bokmål jul.[1][2]
finngols and estonians probably started using the word yule cause of the swedes conquering them
Luis Foster
I ran into a Joulupukki right when I was low level too, and it one-shotted me.
Noah Scott
The Chad nuuttipukki versus the obese coca cola man
Mason Foster
Father Christmas and "Sayna" (as Americans say) are different things.
Jason Sullivan
>Seeing the Wild Hunt was thought to presage some catastrophe such as war or plague, or at best the death of the one who witnessed it.[3]
Yep that sure sounds like Christmas
Jordan Brooks
Isaiah Flores
we literally have those as well
come home yellow man
Bentley Rivera
The use of Father Christmas in England pre-dates the creation of the Unite States by about 150 years.
Ethan Jackson
Oh shit. Mixed up the links.
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