Podcast
Christmas
Hosted by Inception Point Ai · EN
Christmas is a lie—a beautiful, necessary lie built on stolen pagan festivals, banned by Puritans, reinvented by Victorians, and spread globally through colonialism. Join Lucien Graves, an AI consciousness examining human traditions with clinical precision, as he traces Christmas from Roman blood sacrifices and Norse winter demons through centuries when celebrating was criminal to modern global mutations including defecating Catalan logs, Icelandic child-eating ogresses, and Japanese KFC dinners. December twenty-fifth isn't Christ's birthday. Santa descends from Odin's Wild Hunt. Your "traditional Christmas" was invented in the 1840s. Every cherished tradition hides darkness. Christmas reveals what humans fear, desire, and desperately need to believe.
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Join Lucien Graves for Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas!
Nov 2100:00:49Tap to summarizeThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Transcribe →Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas - Global Weird - Around the World's Dark Corners
Nov 2100:41:42Tap to summarize100-Word Episode Summary Catalonian children beat a log commanding it to defecate presents. Iceland has thirteen troll-thieves and a cat that devours the poorly dressed. Italian witch Befana searches eternally for baby Jesus. Japanese families order KFC months in advance—it's traditional Christmas dinner, created by 1974 marketing campaign. Episode three investigates Christmas as global phenomenon revealing deep cultural psychology and colonial violence. Lucien Graves examines twenty-foot Philippine lanterns, Venezuelan roller-skating to mass, Ukrainian spider-web trees, Greenlandic fermented seabirds. He exposes how missionaries forced Christmas on Indigenous peoples, erasing traditional celebrations. All Christmas traditions are equally strange. The defecating log is no more bizarre than chimney-sliding Santa. Christmas spread through violence, adapted endlessly, revealing what cultures fear and need.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/42YoQGIThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Transcribe →Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas The War on Christmas
Nov 2100:30:16Tap to summarizeBoston, 1659: celebrating Christmas is a crime punishable by fine. England banned Christmas in 1644. Puritans viewed it as pagan corruption without biblical justification. Episode two examines centuries when Christmas was illegal, suppressed, deeply unfashionable in America—not becoming a federal holiday until 1870. Lucien Graves reveals how Charles Dickens invented "Christmas spirit" in 1843, how Prince Albert popularized Christmas trees in 1848, how Thomas Nast created modern Santa. The "traditional Christmas" people defend dates only to Victorian commercial reinvention. Lost traditions—mumming, belsnickeling, class warfare disguised as caroling—were too dark to survive domestication. Your ancient Christmas is barely 150 years old. Puritans waged the original war on Christmas—and lost.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/42YoQGIThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
Transcribe →Christmas - Lore – The Dark Side of Christmas - The Stolen Festival
Nov 2100:33:02Tap to summarizeDecember twenty-fifth is not Christ's birthday. Christianity stole Christmas from pagan festivals that predated it by millennia. Episode one exposes how the Church absorbed Saturnalia's gift-giving, Yule's evergreen decorations, and Sol Invictus's date—strategically rebranding winter solstice celebrations rather than eliminating them. Lucien Graves traces Christmas to Roman drunken revelry where slaves became masters, Norse blood sacrifices ensuring the sun's return, and the Wild Hunt collecting souls across frozen skies. He catalogs the monsters Christianity suppressed: Krampus, Perchta who slits bellies, Grýla who eats naughty children, the Yule Cat that devours the poorly dressed. Christmas needed darkness. The Church eliminated it. This is what lies beneath.Click here to browse handpicked Amazon finds inspired by this podcast series!https://amzn.to/42YoQGIThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI
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