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12/26 - Happy Kwanzaa! [1]
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Date: 2022-12-26
We seem to have survived yet another celebration of any and all of the combined celebrations, festivities and trappings of an ancient Babylonian Sun God, a bunch of later copycat religions whose God had been born on the same exact day and even a lone Godling also miraculaously birthed on that date. The exact date, coincidentally was the date of the Roman Winter Solstice which was determined by fourth century holy scholars to have been the birthdate of the most recent of those dieties. This, after mucho ado, finally frees up our time and attention for other holidays.
Alrighty then, 'tis the first day of Kwanzaa. I have more than once made a brief familiarization foray into the writings on this holiday, but am not remotely competent to discuss it. As a result, I suggest that people go and read up on it themselves.
For those living in or having survived the English/British/UKish Empire, it is also Boxing Day. My guess is that in the distant past Royalty, petty nobility, lords of the manor, the bourgeoise and the like upon awakening after the previous day's celebrations took to combing through the detritus to find odds and ends and unwanted items that they could box up and give to their servants and serfs and eventually other useful hoi polloi as well. That's only a guess. My clan praticed no Britishisms even though our country had indeed been conquered by them and incorporated unrestfully into their empire and its people robbed, murdered, tortured, persecuted and starved like other victims of said empire; at least until we drove them out (to me Whack fol the diddle o the die do day).
Then again, it is also the Feast of Steven from whence:
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(Though Pogo tells us that: "Good King Wenceslas looked out, On his feets uneven", but who am I to quibble.)
Said Feast of Steven refers to Saint Steven and, yes, it is Saint Steven's Day and a figurative Kewpie Doll and cigar to those who guessed that they'd be hearing this today
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