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Thread #87381   Message #1631556
Posted By: MMario
20-Dec-05 - 01:58 PM
Thread Name: Yule Tree Carol (pagan) from CapriUni
Subject: RE: Yule Tree Carol (pagan) from CapriUni
BTW - for those "you stole our..." people out there - There are no records of Christmas Trees being used as decorations for about 400 years *post* Christian missionaries moving into the part of the world where the christmas tree tradtion comes from. (and records also show that those missionaries chose evergreens as symbolic of Christ *because* they were not worshipped locally) At that time they were brought in and hung upside down from the cielings; their tringular shape symbolizing the trinity. it wasn't until about another 400 years they were tipped upside right and lit with candles - and of course HRH Albert then brought the custom to England (and it spread to the copycat New World) in the 1800's