Show Notes: The Walker Is Abroad
You can listen to the LIVE stream here. Our Christmas traditions are a wonderful blend of our western culture. When those values are reflected in literature we want our children to experience them. https://youtu.be/sUGACO6WVI4?feature=sharedThe Melting Pot 1.0Holy, rowan, mistletoe are facets of Germanic and Norse mythology that were transplanted to England with the arrival of the Saxons and again with the Danes.The Yule Log is also a mixture of Christian and Nordic tradition celebrated during the month of December. The Twelve Days of Christmas have their origin in part in the Twelve Days of Yule.https://www.acropolis.ie/magazine-posts/yule/For the people of Germania, Scandinavia, and Anglo-Saxon England, understanding the cycles of nature and the sun, in particular, was critical to survival, and celebrating the winter solstice is an ancient pagan tradition ...Yuletide was extended…


