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By Doris Daugherty
idition of Christmas Tree
l A wide-eyed child gazing
unbelieveingly at his first hristmas tree is far reeved from a lusty Roman or
uid chanting incantations to Bis decorated tree. Yet, it is from these two sources that the custom of the Christmas free came. .During the mid-winter Saturnalia, Romans decorated trees with bits of metal and, replicas of their god of wine, Bacchus. At times they placed 12 candles on the tree in honor of their sun god, Apollo. In Britain at the same season, the druids honored their chief god by tying fruit and cakes in shapes of birds, fish, and gnimals to tree branches. They also placed lighted candles on the boughs of trees to honor their sun god. After these pagans accepted Christianity, they continued their Winter rites but changed them to honor Christ.
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