What? Milk and chocolate? Another shocking discovery that cultures vary. In Sweden it would be porridge for the hustomte (house gnome), at least in my experience
My Indigenous Ancestors on Christmas Day
Submitted 1 day ago by Ininewcrow@piefed.ca to [deleted]
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Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 day ago
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
I wonder if these old traditions started out as a way to leave food out for the homeless or destitute. In some countries there is a tradition of leaving a seat empty at the Christmas table for itinerants and travelers. I traveled a lot through Asia and they leave food and drink out before statues of deities and idols, and I have seen on many occasions the homeless taking the food and eating it, and I doubt anyone would have minded had they seen them do it.
Just a meandering thought…
nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
We put out nog and cookies for Santa (me I’m the dad now) and carrots for the reindeer.
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social 21 hours ago
Stop calling me that. I’m not that short!
toeblast96@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
stop cleaning my house behind my back❗❗❗
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 day ago
In the UK it’s a mince pie and a glass of some booze (traditionally sherry) and a carrot for the reindeer.
basxto@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Afaik we don’t put out any food on Christmas for the Christ child nor on the 6th for St. Nicolas in Germany. We only put clean boots in front of the front door for St. Nicolas to fill.
Filling of the boots just happens over night.
Gifts under Christmas tree just spawn during Christmas eve. Or they are “still there from Christmas eve” when they are exchanged on a visit during the Christmas holidays (25th and 26th). On 24th the room got locked and it was only opened after a bell rung 🤔
Although there should be regional differences, especially for religious reasons. Christ child isn’t used everywhere afaik. By now the Christ child rather gets depicted as a blonde angel and doesn’t look like depictions of Christ. It doesn’t really matter how an angel enters a locked room. There is also Christmas man which is used as a translation for Santa Clause. He basically acts like the Christ child, but looks like Coca-Cola’s fat Nicolas. (I guess drinking Coca-Cola does that to you). Although there are many color versions of St Nicolas and he is actually supposed do wear a miter, but that part is lost more and more. St. Nicolas was a bishop and supposed to look like a bishop.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My Aztec ancestors watching me put marshmallows and peppermint in my hot chocolate like “da fuck?”
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
My ancestors when I don’t burn incense and the fake “heaven money” thingy.
They must not have money to spend up there…
Wait a minute… “heaven” is capitalistic too? 💀
titanicx@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
As a native American. This meme is idiotic. Maybe choose a Viking or a pagan or sort that would be making offerings.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 23 hours ago
The OP is native American.
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 16 hours ago
When the native americans forget there isn’t just one native american culture and every tribe had different customs and beliefs.
BC_viper@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe they should bring gifts.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 day ago
last time they did a gift exchange they all got sick and died. 😐
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 1 day ago
My ancestors did that with these clowns for the first few hundred years and it reduced the population by 80 percent!
Jeeptrap@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Give it away, now
Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 1 day ago
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservationTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
In time, I want to be your best friend
East Side love is living on the West End
queermunist@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
<to the tune of the song of the same name by the Red Hot Chili Peppers>
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I’ve been offering corn and onions, but that made them angry somehow.
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Maybe try beans next
popekingjoe@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Or vans.
HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
These are offerings to deities in their own right. Modern societies miss day-to-day rites that connect people with the supernatural
tomiant@piefed.social 1 day ago
Like carving out the still beating hearts of captives with athames and kicking their corpses down the stairs of step pyramids.
We truly have lost our sense of spirituality.
Spaniard@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Not all natives were the aztecs.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
Tradition is peer pressure of the dead.