Tag Archives: syncretism

The Tradition of the Yule-Log

Christmas symbolism, including the yule-log, comes from many different faith traditions. This helps explain its power.

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A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Nativity

This playful Scott Bates environmental poem looks at the nativity story and observes that we are in desperate need of a repetition.

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Worshipping the Gods of Fermented Fruit

The way Peruvian farmers use corn be gives insight into Teiresias’ encomium on wine in Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”

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