From the same source:Robert Gordon Wasson, an ethnomycologist, and anthropologist John A. Rush have investigated fungi, the religious and ritualistic perspective and also their psychotropic properties. In their research, both came to the conclusion that the Amanita muscaria mushroom is closely related to the Christmas imaginary.
Hundreds of years ago, it was found that the winter solstice ceremony of the indigenous people of the North Pole, especially the Koryaks of Siberia and the Kamchadales, had similar traditions to the ones of the last century’s Christmas Eve.
In the ancestral communities of the Arctic, the winter solstice, which occurs on December 21st, was a ceremonial and festive date. Rituals were conducted that were guided by shamans who collected the Amanita muscaria mushroom, also called fly agaric, which has powerful hallucinogenic properties.
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Most Christians celebrate Christmas, although a minority reject Christmas as a pagan ceremony - which (according to the above source) has been adapted by various institutions over the centuries.The story of Santa Claus is not the creation of Coca-Cola, nor Saint Nicholas or a children’s story, it exists because of a small living being with great powers: the Amanita muscaria mushroom.
As such - there is a base-reality re the origins of the practice and subsequent mythologies built around the original fact.
Only - it too is a theory.
So...
Q: What exactly is Christmas, and how did it really begin and why is it able to be dovetailed within the message of Christianity...and - is the use of natural chemicals against what Biblical Jesus said, or beside the point?
