Not to mention that Santa is a prolific home-wrecker, as millions of children have witnessed him making out with one of their parents’ partners.

Probably the weirdest thing to me about Thanksgiving is that it wasn’t even remotely real in the sense of being founded on a historically coherent event. Perhaps this is just the nature of mythology. Thanksgiving was a religious fasting ritual at the time. Sharing a meal with indigenous people was a coincidence during a harvest festival, which isn’t exclusive to any one religion or even spirituality at all. It’s two, entirely unrelated things that got crammed into a single tradition because they occur roughly during the same season. Also, there was a lot of ethnic cleansing before and after, but that doesn’t go well with primary school history class, so let’s leave that bit out.

They’re definitely up to something, building their underground bunkers like power-addled billionaires.

hey, I’m not the one calling non-holidays, holidays.

I speak english, not yankee cowboy. Holiday is holiday. Celebration is celebration.

Pre edit : I also speak turkish, there’s a difference between “Bayram” and “Tatil”.

You can add my post 😀.

Wikipedia gets strange in some articles, and this is definitely one of them. St Brigid is a Catholic thing, not a wheel of the year feast. Why the conflation here? I don’t know.

There are a number of articles that talk about the “awakening” aspect of Imbolc, and it is associated with other hibernating animals peeking out of their dens to see what’s up. So the groundhog in the American context is a natural one.