Tradition is peer pressure of the dead.
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? 💀
My Aztec ancestors watching me put marshmallows and peppermint in my hot chocolate like “da fuck?”
As a native American. This meme is idiotic. Maybe choose a Viking or a pagan or sort that would be making offerings.
The OP is native American.
When the native americans forget there isn’t just one native american culture and every tribe had different customs and beliefs.
…that will start some fights…
Nah. We’re all good with that in the modern era in general, I think. Mvskoke and Chickasha used to be enemies, but we are chill with each other now. Although I will say we still give each other shit about traditions sometimes, but we’re all from the same part of the USA so some traditions overlap.
Yeah, I’d hope ancient enmities wouldn’t lead to modern problems, but it’s funny watching some people treating the indigenous people’s like a single entity, or like there weren’t fights between groups.
god i wish ancient enemies wouldn’t lead to modern problems, signed - a polish person
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
We put out nog and cookies for Santa (me I’m the dad now) and carrots for the reindeer.
Stop calling me that. I’m not that short!
stop cleaning my house behind my back❗❗❗
THAT wasn’t me, believe me. I’m fully dedicated to unclean nine 😐
I wonder if these old traditions started out as a way to leave food out for the homeless or destitute during holidays where everyone was supposed to be safe and fed. 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…
In the UK it’s a mince pie and a glass of some booze (traditionally sherry) and a carrot for the reindeer.
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.
Maybe they should bring gifts.
last time they did a gift exchange they all got sick and died. 😐
My ancestors did that with these clowns for the first few hundred years and it reduced the population by 80 percent!
Give it away, now
Choose not a life of imitation
Distant cousin to the reservationIn time, I want to be your best friend
East Side love is living on the West End
<to the tune of the song of the same name by the Red Hot Chili Peppers>
I’ve been offering corn and onions, but that made them angry somehow.
Maybe try beans next
Or vans.
These are offerings to deities in their own right. Modern societies miss day-to-day rites that connect people with the supernatural
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.
Not all natives were the Aztecs. Even for Christians the whole Santa thing is a bit weird.
