• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 months ago

    Isnt Jól Wotanic? I remember something about lighting a giant log in a bonfire and every spark is a promise from Thor of a new lamb.

    I could be talking out my ass, informed by comic books.

    • CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Around here it was the Vikings that celebrate “julablot” around the 12th of January. What they celebrated is not known, but it involved alcohol and sacrifice.

      We’ve kept the name, the alcohol and much of the heathen symbols. Christianity is a small part of it after it was forced upon the Vikings under the threat of violence and death.