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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by lolinder on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @06:39PM (#42511989)
I linked one example—a video on Christmas trees from a religious studies scholar. They have similar content on the date of Christmas, and there are plenty of sources on each other tradition.

Here's another one on Saturnalia from the same scholar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lsctaPJSvo

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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by satvikpendem on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @06:41PM (#42511999)
Great, appreciate it. Merry Christmas!
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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by lolinder on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @06:46PM (#42512028)
Merry Christmas!
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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by Aloha on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @09:20PM (#42512683)
Merry Christmas indeed!
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Re:Merry Christmas Everyone by rat87 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @06:54PM (#42518810)
One small exception Russian empire turned a figure from Pagan mythology into a St Claus like figure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz But my understanding is that him handing out gifts didn't come from Pagan traditions and was a result of largely copying Santa Claus traits.

Later during Soviet times secularish Christmas traditions including Ded Moroz were moved to New Year's.

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