The Romans and Christians murdered and subjugated the Celts, and the Samhain became Halloween. October.
Puritans came to the New World and murdered and subjugated Native Americans. The legacy of this is called Thanksgiving, as sad as that particular irony is. November.
The Romans and Christians murdered and subjugated the Gauls, aka the Germanic people, aka the Vikings, and Yule became Christmas. December.
In plainer terms? FUCK your holiday season. It's a bloody pile of fucking LIES. Now glossed over by sheer commercialism. Cheers. Keep your heads down, and keep being ignorant sheep. But it's fun to put up the stupid decorations, right?
The only one I like is New Years, because 1) everyone gets shamelessly drunk and 2) it's another chance for humans to get their act together and stop killing each other over myths and bullshit.
buddy3338:
Cycle rinse and repeat
spectral_line:
we could always start with the ..ahem!...13 signs of the zodiac....Ophiuchus coming between the Babylonian November and December ...and Don't get me started on Easter (esther)...“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books—books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, ‘What is history, but a fable agreed upon?’” - Excerpt from Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown