Re:Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth...
by culi on Sunday February 12, 2023 @09:40PM
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the Siberian shamans’ use of (red and white) fly agaric mushrooms to enter the spirit world is believed to be the source of the Father Christmas myth.
And I mean... obviously. A red and white mushroom that can get you high as fuck with the help of some reindeer...
https://www.livescience.com/42077-8-ways-mushrooms-explain-s...
Re:Trove of spices from around the world on sunken fifteenth...
by riffraff on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:46AM
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> the Siberian shamans’ use of (red and white) fly agaric mushrooms to enter the spirit world is believed to be the source of the Father Christmas myth.
but the "Father Christmas" in english tradition was green.
https://www.ssgreatbritain.org/why-is-our-father-christmas-g...
I never heard of christmas deriving from reindeer, it is commonly associated with winter solstice, but given the first record of the festivity is in Rome in 336CE it seems odd.
Maybe you mean the "association of reindeer with christmas", but that seems likely to have originated in the 19th century.
Do you have any source?