WaffleCountry
25-12-2006, 17:11
I was just wondering what you would class as a traditional christmas. It doesn't have to be someone elses idea of one. Just something that you enjoy and do every year. My christmas would be... well.... traditonal - Tree, Pressies, crackers etc. Is it the same for you guys I wonder?
Johnny B Goode
25-12-2006, 18:25
I was just wondering what you would class as a traditional christmas. It doesn't have to be someone elses idea of one. Just something that you enjoy and do every year. My christmas would be... well.... traditonal - Tree, Pressies, crackers etc. Is it the same for you guys I wonder?
Tree, presents, snow, people actually enjoying each other's company and not cleaning, music, the usual bushel.
Vimeria III
25-12-2006, 19:15
The traditional Joulu involves a man dressing up as a ram, a symbol of fertility, and going from house to house scaring children, causing trouble and getting himself roaring drunk. The households he visits are supposed to give him gifts, usually alcohol, and if he's driven out or refused gifts, that family will have a bad year fertilitywise (ie. bad crops, no children).
Well, at least before the damn Christians came, burned the pagan shamans and generally just ruined it all. We still call Christmas Joulu (think Yule, the old holiday of the Vikings), and Santa Claus Joulupukki, which literally translated means the Christmas Ram.