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idea = christmas tree

Postby pl4y4k1ll3r » Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:55 pm

is there e christmas tree ?
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Re: idea = christmas tree

Postby pl4y4k1ll3r » Mon Dec 06, 2010 8:03 pm

no ?
then my idea

you plant a fir and when hi 's like a christmas tree you chop him.
( special chop )
you get : a christmas tree on the ground ! :D
then you need to pull it
to a house
and then you set it good
( pull and set it good in the menu ( menu = chop take bracnh ... )
then a special thing ( in the menu craftings ) for christmass things ( arts )
like a glass christmass ball
a pendulum from leather with wax
...
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Re: idea = christmas tree

Postby BWithey2 » Mon Dec 06, 2010 10:19 pm

I would call this a 'Sacred Tree' or something like that.

Not because I give a shit about offending anyone.. Just that the Christmas tree predates christianity, and my hearthlings are ancestor worshippers. ;)
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Re: idea = christmas tree

Postby sabinati » Mon Dec 06, 2010 11:05 pm

The origin of the Christmas tree is obscured by uncertainties of oral histories of pre-literate European cultures. For example, according to Christian lore, the Christmas tree is associated with St Boniface and the German town of Geismar. Sometime in St Boniface's lifetime (c. 672-754) he cut down the tree of Thor in order to disprove the legitimacy of the Norse gods to the local German tribe. St. Boniface saw a fir tree growing in the roots of the old oak. Taking this as a sign of the Christian faith, he said "...let Christ be at the center of your households..." using the fir tree as a symbol of Christianity.[3]

The tradition of the Christmas tree as it is today known is fairly young. It was established by Martin Luther as a Protestant counterpart to the Catholic Nativity scene. Luther established the Christmas tree as a symbol of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden.[4]

The custom of erecting a Christmas Tree can be historically traced to 15th century Livonia (present-day Estonia and Latvia) and 16th century Northern Germany. According to the first documented uses of a Christmas tree in Estonia, in 1441, 1442, and 1514 the Brotherhood of the Blackheads erected a tree for the holidays in their brotherhood house in Reval (now Tallinn). At the last night of the celebrations leading up to the holidays, the tree was taken to the Town Hall Square where the members of the brotherhood danced around it.[5] In 1584, the pastor and chronicler Balthasar Russow wrote of an established tradition of setting up a decorated spruce at the market square where the young men “went with a flock of maidens and women, first sang and danced there and then set the tree aflame”.[1] In that period, the guilds started erecting Christmas trees in front of their guildhalls: Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann (Marburg professor of European ethnology) found a Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 which reports how a small tree was decorated with "apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers" and erected in the guild-house, for the benefit of the guild members' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas Day.[2]
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Re: idea = christmas tree

Postby SacreDoom » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:32 am

sabinati wrote:(Too many words to be worth reading... blah blah blah...)



Exactly.
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