14:40 - Blue is significant in Judaism. G-d commanded the use of one blue thread in the tallit (prayer shawl) because blue is the color of the sea, which resembles the sky, and the sky reminds us of G-d and his throne - the inclusion of blue in the tallit may be to remind us to not just look at the world but to be an active part of it. The concept of tikkun olam - to heal the world - is a central and defining point in Judaism and for me, personally, is perhaps the most essential and fundamental aspect of how I see my faith. The use of blue in Chanukah seems to be mainly driven by consumerism and the desire to market the holiday, from what I can tell. Blue and white are the colors of the Israeli flag so that factors into it as well. This is all my personal understanding of things and doesn’t reflect the entirety of Judaism (see also: Two Jews, Three Opinions) Signed, A Jewish Conversion Student
Smugs ya gotta check out hannukah harry. My brothers and i about thirty years ago found the santa claus for we jews. Each year as we grew away from each other, harry would get mailed to one of us each year. My nieces use to know the holiday was near. Never did have a hannukah bush but we always had decoration time at our non Jewish friends homes. It was a fun time.
@ Oh thanks! I will definitely check it out! Both my kiddos were supposed to come for Chanukah but my daughter & son in law had to cancel. Mailing Harry back and forth would be so cool!!!
There can be two kinds of leaves on holly. The spikey ones are the vegetative leaves and the smooth ones are reproductive leaves - meaning that the plant produces them around the time it is flowering and bearing fruits (the red berries). This is what I recall from botany class at uni, nearly 20 years ago. This should at least be true for the holly we have here in Europe, which is called _Ilex aquifolium_.
I had no idea about the why, but I was browsing the comment section to look for a "there's two kind of leaves on the same tree" one before adding one attesting to that. Source : there are a couple of holly trees near my paren't house.
I've been waiting on the Mayan connection video! Kind of mad at myself for not realizing it was just going to be poinsettias lol. I am kind of shocked by how DIFFERENT Anna seems here. She looks really pretty in this video; this outfit is cute, fits well, she looks great in red and she just seems so much more genuinely happy than she does these days.
According to Google's AI, "In like Flynn" is WWII slang the pilots used to say referring to Errol Flynn's promiscuous ways with women. As in the pilots were able to slip into wherever they were going easily. There were other possible origins, but that one was the most interesting/fun.
Blue is the traditional color of Advent the season leading up to Christmas. Advent starts on the first Sunday and December and goes through Christmas Eve. Blue is associated with the virgin Mary. There is also the 3rd Sunday in Advent Gaudete, which means rejoice. It's color is pink/rose. So the Advent candles are lit Blue, Blue, pink, blue and white on Christmas.
Actually purple, not blue. (The latter being indeed associated with Mary, and the former with conversion - same with Lent, and there's also a Sunday-in-pink during that time (Laetare)). That being said, there's no strict Rule about the candles' colour (it's more a vestment thing). Advent sometimes begin the last Sunday of November (4th-before-Christmas-day).
@Cecily-Pimprenelle my church, LCMS, switched to blue for advent in the 2000s. It was to separate Advent, a season of anticipation, from Lent, a season of repentence. I think, and I'm not sure, the Catholics have had a longer history of blue for advent. I did forget, there are 2 pink Sundays but most churches don't have pink paraments.
@@Erzas_Art_Atelier I'm a Catholic, and I never saw blue for Advent in any church (I do get the logic of your church - but yes, we do keep the focus on purification of the heart (visibly, I mean - I'm sure it's also a concern of the Lutheran Church no matter the liturgical colour used!). The Orthodox (at least the Greek Orthodox) consider Advent a "little Lent" and do fast in preparation for Christmas. Not all Roman Catholic churches have pink linens (not the right word - English isn't m'y native language), but the parishes I attended (and my current one) do. The ones who don't keep the purple. Blue isn't an official colour (I think mots feasts of Mary are "white") but is commonly used as an accent for her. Red for Pentecoast but also for martyrs - I dont know whether you use the same "code". Anyways, thanks for your elaboration !
I'm Ukrainian, but unfortunately I've never heard of this tradition with a spider on the Christmas tree. My family always used the most basic ornaments for decoration 😁
Oh I watched Tabaluga as a kid! Completely forgot about this show. Also I used to live in the Ukraine and was married to a Ukrainian for some years. I have never heard about the spider.
Mayans were from mexico and central america. Poinsettias came from mexico,used by aztecs. Used by priests in mexico to decorate nativity scenes and were introduced in the USA in the 1800s
I thought blue came in as blue lights were the first LEDs and that guy won the Nobel Prize for Physics and they were really energy efficient so suddenly everyone was decorating their houses for Christmas with blue lights. Other than that blue is often associated with the Virgin Mary (as she supposedly wore blue robes).
That would chase me out of any store! Why would they do that? My poor husband is going mad at this office right now because they’re piping in Christmas music in the cafeteria, and during his lunch hour that Jackson 5 “Santa Claus Is Coning To Town” always plays and makes him want to burn down the building. (Luckily for everyone when the “wanna hippopotamus” girl starts up he’s long gone)
Apparently there are present day descendants of Mayans living primarily in Central America and at one point in time Christianity was introduced to them and they do celebrate a form of Christmas. Sort of like the descendants of Pagens still celebrate Yule.
@yvettet9855 I meant no disrespect in my post. I was simply stating that Mayan descendants DO still exist and at some point in time WERE introduced to Christianity. Again I apologize if I offended you
@@barbaraheaton4770I don't think it was an angry response, only the fact that Christian misioneries were extremely violent (well, it was a colonization after all) that almost wiped out the culture, so, yes, the catholic belief today is strong because indocrination, more than a choice. I do believe actual Mayans don't know how to write/read mayan because of this intromission, they didn't pass it on purpouse so the foreings couldn't understand their sacred writings
... In catholicism, the colour of Chrismas is white (or gold). Red and green are liturgical colours, but they're not particularly associated with Christmas and are used (separately) throughout the year. Pretty certain the red-and-green colour scheme comes from holly - greenery that could be brought indoor without losing colour - and pretty much the only available colour pop in Europe in winter? No source, just speculating here.
Arctus/Arktos in Greek myth was a centaur who fought a particular bunch of spearmen (source Wikipedia). His name meant "bear". (Also: Arctic from the Greek word for bear referring to the constellation Ursus Major. Saw a reddit comment suggesting the Greek word was a variant on "brown thing" because hunters were afraid naming the beast would bring it upon them. Less sure about the accuracy of this bit!)
Oh, Tiny BA...You attended Anth 101 and 102 with dread-locked white boys and virtue-signaling girls who covered their notebooks with Amnesty International stickers they never paid for. I recognize your pain and remember the cringe. Still, thank you for the giggles.
I enjoyed anthropology 😂 never had that in my class but smoking was a thing. However smoking is very common where I come from so it’s not much of a taboo.
Okay, gingerbread is linked to honeycakes because of the recipes. I have a hard gingerbread recipe from the 1830s that's very similar to a honeycake recipe, and I've heard suggestions from food historians (talk about an incredible niche!) that gingerbread MAY have origins in honeycakes. Of course, there's no evidence and it's mostly based on how the recipe is constructed and a logical leap there. Also, the novel The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne starts early with Hepzibah Pyncheon selling decorated gingerbread figures to a local schoolboy, and they come in a number of shapes, not just men. If memory serves there was a fully standing elephant (because New England and our elephants...) so the idea of building a structure in gingerbread was likely common enough to be understood in 1851 when it was produced, and probably earlier for Hawthorne to know about it. Plus, there's a historic archetechtural feature called "gingerbread dentalwork" in Victorian houses, because it makes them look like decorated gingerbread houses. I've seen contemporary references to installing "gingerbread" on the houses, so it was obviously a thing by the 1870s, I think was when the ledger I found it in was? So, obviously the Victorians were well acquainted with gingerbread houses. Long story, but the end result is gingerbread houses were clearly known in America by the Victorians, and likely in Europe even earlier because that's where it appears to have originated, so the play in 1983, after I was born (into a family where gingerbread houses were a thing for generations prior) was clearly not involved at all.
Arktos in Greek means bear, it is related to the English word arctic because of Urga major, so having to do with the great bear or the northlands near the great bear. From my google search. 😉
Gingerbread houses don't come from the story of Hansel and Gretel. The tradition of making gingerbread houses is thought to have originated in Germany in the 16th to 18th centuries. The tradition became more popular after the publication of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel in 1812.
I also couldn't find a Hansel & Gretel play that premiered on December 23, 1983. There was a tv movie that aired in October of that year but I couldn't find a play.
I knew blue was a Chanukah color, but not why. My holiday lights are blue because that's what was in stock when I bought them, so I have wondered if neighbors saw them and assumed I am Jewish.
Peter Maffay mention! I'm aware Tabaluga and everything might seem weird to you, but it was big in the 2000's, I and everyone around that time grew up with that. Peter Maffay is big in Germany, a renowned children's entertainer and musician, advocate for environmental protection and a lot more since his early days. Tabaluga is an animation show and also a gameshow with and for children with an educational approach. There is Arktos who wants to destroy the environment for money, but Tabaluga and his friends stop him. So a typical storyline for that, but honestly I think it's good kids television.
No gingerbread man, believe it or not. I should start a petition to make that an emoji. Do you think it would be more popular than the one about two seats for obese people? I’m kind of scared to look up the history of snowmen now…
it has sleigh bells in the background and vaguely harp sounds, that's my guess. i'd forgotten that poinsettia were from mexico, but makes sense considering how popular they are in socal.
There's over 400 species of holly so no clue on the exact mythology/folklore she's referencing. But it has male and female parts as it produces berries
What does she mean, "the original play" of Hansel and Gretel? Maybe the first play, but the story is way older than 1983! (Edit: I see you got to the Grimm tale after all.) Saw the first gingerbread house of the season in the baker today!
Gingerbread _is_ interesting, even from a baking point of view. :-) So many variations on the theme, so many common factors yet such a range of results. Some of the earlier recipes require months of letting the dough mature...
Knowing a bit about the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, any connection between the Mayans and Christianity has me gripping my chair. I'm used to Anna being ignorant about her own life, but ignorance about colonialism is a switch up.
I know nothing about historical traditional holly but, about the Mayans, saying they were only in México Is wrong. Those were Aztecs. Mayans indeed have a part in south México, but their main actual country is Guatemala, or maybe say Yucatán peninsula to englobe better the area CAT!! The show Is called: traditions acording to Ana. Ana's world Gingerman cookies are so delicious and not a custom here 😭 but only knowing medieval traditions, more than european history, I can say all christmas sweets started 1: as a way to preserve food longer and 2: monasteries, who had the resoueses to have spices like ginger, and the obligation to cook for loyal visitors and for the community in special special specially dates (you had more luck in the town market still) Couldn't find any gingerman coockie ⛄⛄⛄
@TinyBlueAnthropologist have no idea. Anyway, if we are talking about 19th century, Christmas tree started to appear in wealthy families. People in villages didn't consider it as a Christmas symbol even in the beginning of 20th century. It wide spreads in 1930s, in cities, within Soviet official anti-religious campaign as New Year tree as opposite to Christmas. Thus decoration was produced on factories, also people would put some random candies. Still have never in my life I've seen or heard anything about spiders. I can be wrong, as you say, but not to my 40 years of Christmas -New Year celebration experience
I am not completely certain why our creator likes the color blue but we are told to make tzitzit which are little tassels that hang on the 4 corners of our garments of white and blue. I believe is a jewish color not a hanukkah color
Green doesn't represent rebirth during Christmas that is for Easter. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection and liturgy wise green(if the denomination uses green) is used after the whole Lent/Easter/Pentecost season symbolizing new hope and the resurrection. Green is not traditionally used for the Advent season purple or blue are. Blue was historically used because it was cheaper and easier to produce. Green and red isn't even Christian propaganda since they tend to preference white, silver, gold, and purple. Some will use red for Christmas although that's also more to do with the Lent/Easter/Pentecost season. Christian propagandist tend to use liturgy colors for the holiday they are propagandizing they also tend to push to change the traditional decorations to symbols of Jesus like doves and fish. If red and green are used as Christian symbols it would be because the color combo was absorbed from pagans and then they fit it to the faith. Red would become the blood of Christ and the green is probably a symbol for eternal life since the green is significantly different then the Easter green. Arktos is the romanized version of the ancient Greek word for bear and was a mythical centaur who fought against the Lapith spearmen and the fight is depicted on Heracles' shield as depicted by Hesiod.
Easter is white traditionally. The season of Trinity or the Time of the Church is green to symbolise through growth of the church. Advent is blue for Mary and Lent is purple for repentance and the royalty of Christ. The only red season is Pentecost which symbolizes the tongues of flame on the apostles and the Holy Spirit.
There is no connection to fertility in Norse history (to which I have an ancestral bloodline). Baldur had a brother who wanted him dead. Baldur's mother queen Frigg to all living things loved went to the Forest one summer and made all life in the forest promise not to aid in killing her son. Unfortunately it was summer mistletoe only grows in winter. Therefore Baldur's brother was able to form an arrow from mistletoe. Frigg was a goddess of love and proclaimed that no one should kill her other son out of revenge and declared that mistletoe would be a sign of love and those who came in contact with it should kiss in honor of Baldur.
So why such disgust at Christ? It is Christ-mas? Shouldn’t you show as much respect for all religions? Your face doesn’t contort in disgust when talking about Pagans. Nor should it. Just a thought
Misinfor-mas
14:40 - Blue is significant in Judaism. G-d commanded the use of one blue thread in the tallit (prayer shawl) because blue is the color of the sea, which resembles the sky, and the sky reminds us of G-d and his throne - the inclusion of blue in the tallit may be to remind us to not just look at the world but to be an active part of it. The concept of tikkun olam - to heal the world - is a central and defining point in Judaism and for me, personally, is perhaps the most essential and fundamental aspect of how I see my faith. The use of blue in Chanukah seems to be mainly driven by consumerism and the desire to market the holiday, from what I can tell. Blue and white are the colors of the Israeli flag so that factors into it as well. This is all my personal understanding of things and doesn’t reflect the entirety of Judaism (see also: Two Jews, Three Opinions)
Signed, A Jewish Conversion Student
OK, that makes sense, thank you!
Smugs ya gotta check out hannukah harry. My brothers and i about thirty years ago found the santa claus for we jews. Each year as we grew away from each other, harry would get mailed to one of us each year. My nieces use to know the holiday was near. Never did have a hannukah bush but we always had decoration time at our non Jewish friends homes. It was a fun time.
thank you so much for sharing this!
@ Oh thanks! I will definitely check it out! Both my kiddos were supposed to come for Chanukah but my daughter & son in law had to cancel. Mailing Harry back and forth would be so cool!!!
Thanks! I had no clue!
Arktos is a BEAR in Greek mythology. Guys I'm pulling my hair out!!
Right omg it's literally in the name where did she pull this from
There can be two kinds of leaves on holly. The spikey ones are the vegetative leaves and the smooth ones are reproductive leaves - meaning that the plant produces them around the time it is flowering and bearing fruits (the red berries).
This is what I recall from botany class at uni, nearly 20 years ago. This should at least be true for the holly we have here in Europe, which is called _Ilex aquifolium_.
I had no idea about the why, but I was browsing the comment section to look for a "there's two kind of leaves on the same tree" one before adding one attesting to that.
Source : there are a couple of holly trees near my paren't house.
I've been waiting on the Mayan connection video! Kind of mad at myself for not realizing it was just going to be poinsettias lol. I am kind of shocked by how DIFFERENT Anna seems here. She looks really pretty in this video; this outfit is cute, fits well, she looks great in red and she just seems so much more genuinely happy than she does these days.
According to Google's AI, "In like Flynn" is WWII slang the pilots used to say referring to Errol Flynn's promiscuous ways with women. As in the pilots were able to slip into wherever they were going easily. There were other possible origins, but that one was the most interesting/fun.
Not gonna lie her touching herself constantly this video was far weirder than her "facts"
ikr?
Very handsy
Blue is the traditional color of Advent the season leading up to Christmas. Advent starts on the first Sunday and December and goes through Christmas Eve. Blue is associated with the virgin Mary. There is also the 3rd Sunday in Advent Gaudete, which means rejoice. It's color is pink/rose. So the Advent candles are lit Blue, Blue, pink, blue and white on Christmas.
Actually purple, not blue. (The latter being indeed associated with Mary, and the former with conversion - same with Lent, and there's also a Sunday-in-pink during that time (Laetare)).
That being said, there's no strict Rule about the candles' colour (it's more a vestment thing).
Advent sometimes begin the last Sunday of November (4th-before-Christmas-day).
@Cecily-Pimprenelle my church, LCMS, switched to blue for advent in the 2000s. It was to separate Advent, a season of anticipation, from Lent, a season of repentence. I think, and I'm not sure, the Catholics have had a longer history of blue for advent. I did forget, there are 2 pink Sundays but most churches don't have pink paraments.
@@Erzas_Art_Atelier I'm a Catholic, and I never saw blue for Advent in any church (I do get the logic of your church - but yes, we do keep the focus on purification of the heart (visibly, I mean - I'm sure it's also a concern of the Lutheran Church no matter the liturgical colour used!). The Orthodox (at least the Greek Orthodox) consider Advent a "little Lent" and do fast in preparation for Christmas.
Not all Roman Catholic churches have pink linens (not the right word - English isn't m'y native language), but the parishes I attended (and my current one) do. The ones who don't keep the purple. Blue isn't an official colour (I think mots feasts of Mary are "white") but is commonly used as an accent for her. Red for Pentecoast but also for martyrs - I dont know whether you use the same "code".
Anyways, thanks for your elaboration !
16:55 WAS AN...WHAT???? lolol that was the most hilarious cliffhanger
there should be link in the description (now) if you want to go read it.
holy crap....she's like half her size. damn.
I'm Ukrainian, but unfortunately I've never heard of this tradition with a spider on the Christmas tree. My family always used the most basic ornaments for decoration 😁
Oh I watched Tabaluga as a kid! Completely forgot about this show.
Also I used to live in the Ukraine and was married to a Ukrainian for some years. I have never heard about the spider.
We still put real bees wax candles on our Christmas trees in my country. The scent is incredible
what a great way to describe Gingerbread
Mayans were from mexico and central america. Poinsettias came from mexico,used by aztecs. Used by priests in mexico to decorate nativity scenes and were introduced in the USA in the 1800s
That is interesting.
Hahaha the fact that you filmed all of these in one sitting is insane, my head would have exploded
Oh, i thought the mayan thing was gonna be something about hot cocoa. 😂
That or 2012
I thought blue came in as blue lights were the first LEDs and that guy won the Nobel Prize for Physics and they were really energy efficient so suddenly everyone was decorating their houses for Christmas with blue lights.
Other than that blue is often associated with the Virgin Mary (as she supposedly wore blue robes).
never heard the LED one, so maybe?
Here's another fact about gingerbread.
I can't be trusted around it.
12:38 an adorable wild floof appears
😍The kitty is precious. Such beautiful blue eyes.
☃️ Here is a troublesome snowman.
I work at a luxury retailer and that awful music is played on a loop for the entire month of December. Ugh. We all hate it.
im so sorry
That would chase me out of any store! Why would they do that?
My poor husband is going mad at this office right now because they’re piping in Christmas music in the cafeteria, and during his lunch hour that Jackson 5 “Santa Claus Is Coning To Town” always plays and makes him want to burn down the building. (Luckily for everyone when the “wanna hippopotamus” girl starts up he’s long gone)
Learning so much about the history of Christmas and holiday decorations. ❤
Glad you’re enjoying it!
The reindeer/horse biology last episode (from the comments not anna) was great!
Apparently there are present day descendants of Mayans living primarily in Central America and at one point in time Christianity was introduced to them and they do celebrate a form of Christmas. Sort of like the descendants of Pagens still celebrate Yule.
My mom is from Belize and my grandfather still spoke Mayan (in addition to Spanish and English). My family is DEEPLY DEEPLY Catholic.
@yvettet9855 I meant no disrespect in my post. I was simply stating that Mayan descendants DO still exist and at some point in time WERE introduced to Christianity. Again I apologize if I offended you
@@barbaraheaton4770I don't think it was an angry response, only the fact that Christian misioneries were extremely violent (well, it was a colonization after all) that almost wiped out the culture, so, yes, the catholic belief today is strong because indocrination, more than a choice. I do believe actual Mayans don't know how to write/read mayan because of this intromission, they didn't pass it on purpouse so the foreings couldn't understand their sacred writings
I'm from Germany and when I was a child Tabaluga was super popular (I think it might still be?) :D
Holly is a plant where you need a male plant and female plant otherwise you don’t get berries.
I think I have 2 females
Not sure
... In catholicism, the colour of Chrismas is white (or gold).
Red and green are liturgical colours, but they're not particularly associated with Christmas and are used (separately) throughout the year.
Pretty certain the red-and-green colour scheme comes from holly - greenery that could be brought indoor without losing colour - and pretty much the only available colour pop in Europe in winter? No source, just speculating here.
Arctus/Arktos in Greek myth was a centaur who fought a particular bunch of spearmen (source Wikipedia). His name meant "bear".
(Also: Arctic from the Greek word for bear referring to the constellation Ursus Major. Saw a reddit comment suggesting the Greek word was a variant on "brown thing" because hunters were afraid naming the beast would bring it upon them. Less sure about the accuracy of this bit!)
No spiders! No way! Gingerbread man? How about a ☃
I love gingerbread. But I love spice cake/carrot cake ( ◜‿◝ )♡
that's good too
Oh, Tiny BA...You attended Anth 101 and 102 with dread-locked white boys and virtue-signaling girls who covered their notebooks with Amnesty International stickers they never paid for. I recognize your pain and remember the cringe. Still, thank you for the giggles.
I enjoyed anthropology 😂 never had that in my class but smoking was a thing. However smoking is very common where I come from so it’s not much of a taboo.
Okay, gingerbread is linked to honeycakes because of the recipes. I have a hard gingerbread recipe from the 1830s that's very similar to a honeycake recipe, and I've heard suggestions from food historians (talk about an incredible niche!) that gingerbread MAY have origins in honeycakes. Of course, there's no evidence and it's mostly based on how the recipe is constructed and a logical leap there.
Also, the novel The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne starts early with Hepzibah Pyncheon selling decorated gingerbread figures to a local schoolboy, and they come in a number of shapes, not just men. If memory serves there was a fully standing elephant (because New England and our elephants...) so the idea of building a structure in gingerbread was likely common enough to be understood in 1851 when it was produced, and probably earlier for Hawthorne to know about it.
Plus, there's a historic archetechtural feature called "gingerbread dentalwork" in Victorian houses, because it makes them look like decorated gingerbread houses. I've seen contemporary references to installing "gingerbread" on the houses, so it was obviously a thing by the 1870s, I think was when the ledger I found it in was? So, obviously the Victorians were well acquainted with gingerbread houses.
Long story, but the end result is gingerbread houses were clearly known in America by the Victorians, and likely in Europe even earlier because that's where it appears to have originated, so the play in 1983, after I was born (into a family where gingerbread houses were a thing for generations prior) was clearly not involved at all.
Mardi Gras has specific holiday colors!💜💚💛🎉
I'll stick with a nice soft gingerbread cookie. Definitely not the kind that can be used for ornaments or gingerbread houses.
Arktos in Greek means bear, it is related to the English word arctic because of Urga major, so having to do with the great bear or the northlands near the great bear. From my google search. 😉
In like Flynn comes from the romantic and somewhat colorful personali life of Errrol Flynn
the leaves are spiky at the bottom to deter animals from eating them, smooth at the top because they don't get eaten
Gingerbread houses don't come from the story of Hansel and Gretel. The tradition of making gingerbread houses is thought to have originated in Germany in the 16th to 18th centuries. The tradition became more popular after the publication of the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale Hansel and Gretel in 1812.
I also couldn't find a Hansel & Gretel play that premiered on December 23, 1983. There was a tv movie that aired in October of that year but I couldn't find a play.
Why is every one of her facts like this? What play anna? It’s a story
@@nightsgrow6575 yeah why bring up a play rather than mention that it's a grimm fairytale?
From a Boomer's perceptive , each family has a holiday tradition. Let them be what they are. Please don't take that away from us.
I love how families blend things together and create there own traditions.
Now I need to know about snowmen. I had no idea
Outfit was nice and I love gingerbread
I knew blue was a Chanukah color, but not why. My holiday lights are blue because that's what was in stock when I bought them, so I have wondered if neighbors saw them and assumed I am Jewish.
maybe not, Blue is a pretty color.
Peter Maffay mention! I'm aware Tabaluga and everything might seem weird to you, but it was big in the 2000's, I and everyone around that time grew up with that. Peter Maffay is big in Germany, a renowned children's entertainer and musician, advocate for environmental protection and a lot more since his early days.
Tabaluga is an animation show and also a gameshow with and for children with an educational approach. There is Arktos who wants to destroy the environment for money, but Tabaluga and his friends stop him. So a typical storyline for that, but honestly I think it's good kids television.
thats cool!
@TinyBlueAnthropologist Aside from that lore, thank you for the video and debunking Annas Christmas facts, I've been learning all lot!
No gingerbread man, believe it or not. I should start a petition to make that an emoji. Do you think it would be more popular than the one about two seats for obese people?
I’m kind of scared to look up the history of snowmen now…
haha had no idea the history of snowmen would be so interesting!
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Purple is the color for royalty
Yes because
I believe
a hard color to get😮😊😮
Ok
Peace 😊
12.11.2024
it has sleigh bells in the background and vaguely harp sounds, that's my guess.
i'd forgotten that poinsettia were from mexico, but makes sense considering how popular they are in socal.
Hansel and gretel opera in Germany in 1893, she flipped her numbers, lol.
13:40 red green and gold are the karma chameleon colors
true
There's over 400 species of holly so no clue on the exact mythology/folklore she's referencing. But it has male and female parts as it produces berries
Thanks now I'm spending my afternoon learning about snowmen :/
☃️⛄️☃️⛄️☃️⛄️☃️⛄️☃️
The moulin rouge snow women
Not Hansel and Gretel premiering in the 1980s. 😂
there is no gingerbread but there is a cookie 🍪
In Arthurian myth, Merlin's wand was made of holly wood.
I didn't know that.
Watching this at 1.25 speed so I can complete it before the live at noon!
😂 I was too but I stopped to make long winded points and I’m behind now. See you in the live!! 🤣
Imma try not be a jack@as in the comments today, but if she makes any shady comments about Judaism or Jewish people, all bets are off! 😜♥️
Ginger 🫚 ginger bread man
OLAF!😜
Actually, in the most recent God of War games, they talk about mistletoe. They're actually really good games ( ◜‿◝ )♡
🍪+🫚I did enjoy learning all about gingerbread 😆
I can not get over that whatever you're drinking looks like a can of spray sunscreen 😅
it's a metal water bottle, lol, but yeah
What does she mean, "the original play" of Hansel and Gretel? Maybe the first play, but the story is way older than 1983! (Edit: I see you got to the Grimm tale after all.)
Saw the first gingerbread house of the season in the baker today!
Gingerbread _is_ interesting, even from a baking point of view. :-)
So many variations on the theme, so many common factors yet such a range of results. Some of the earlier recipes require months of letting the dough mature...
🫚, here’s a gingerbread cookie.
Nope no gingerbread emoji!
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Given the year I'd bet Ana was getting her "research" from Pinterest fun facts graphics 🤦🏻♀️
I feel like Anna only exists to make TBA shout "CITE YOUR SOURCES" at this point.
No gingerbread man 😢
🎄lol no gingerbread man emoji, ma'am
are you kidding me!?
@TinyBlueAnthropologist lol nope. I have an android though. Maybe that's why
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Knowing a bit about the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica, any connection between the Mayans and Christianity has me gripping my chair. I'm used to Anna being ignorant about her own life, but ignorance about colonialism is a switch up.
it's really not surprising though.
I know nothing about historical traditional holly but, about the Mayans, saying they were only in México Is wrong. Those were Aztecs. Mayans indeed have a part in south México, but their main actual country is Guatemala, or maybe say Yucatán peninsula to englobe better the area
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The show Is called: traditions acording to Ana. Ana's world
Gingerman cookies are so delicious and not a custom here 😭 but only knowing medieval traditions, more than european history, I can say all christmas sweets started 1: as a way to preserve food longer and 2: monasteries, who had the resoueses to have spices like ginger, and the obligation to cook for loyal visitors and for the community in special special specially dates (you had more luck in the town market still)
Couldn't find any gingerman coockie
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I'm Ukrainian and for the first time I hear anything about spiders
interesting, I wonder if It's another US only thing?
@TinyBlueAnthropologist have no idea. Anyway, if we are talking about 19th century, Christmas tree started to appear in wealthy families. People in villages didn't consider it as a Christmas symbol even in the beginning of 20th century.
It wide spreads in 1930s, in cities, within Soviet official anti-religious campaign as New Year tree as opposite to Christmas. Thus decoration was produced on factories, also people would put some random candies.
Still have never in my life I've seen or heard anything about spiders. I can be wrong, as you say, but not to my 40 years of Christmas -New Year celebration experience
I'm talking about Ukraine of course, big cities and small villages, east and west
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Gingerbread ❤
Sad that there is no Gingerbread Man Emoji on TH-cam. Get it together TH-cam.
right!
I am not completely certain why our creator likes the color blue but we are told to make tzitzit which are little tassels that hang on the 4 corners of our garments of white and blue. I believe is a jewish color not a hanukkah color
☃snowman in place of gingerbread man because the emoji selections are not near as good as your imagination.
Christmas has nothing to with Christ
Green doesn't represent rebirth during Christmas that is for Easter. Easter is the celebration of the resurrection and liturgy wise green(if the denomination uses green) is used after the whole Lent/Easter/Pentecost season symbolizing new hope and the resurrection. Green is not traditionally used for the Advent season purple or blue are. Blue was historically used because it was cheaper and easier to produce. Green and red isn't even Christian propaganda since they tend to preference white, silver, gold, and purple. Some will use red for Christmas although that's also more to do with the Lent/Easter/Pentecost season. Christian propagandist tend to use liturgy colors for the holiday they are propagandizing they also tend to push to change the traditional decorations to symbols of Jesus like doves and fish. If red and green are used as Christian symbols it would be because the color combo was absorbed from pagans and then they fit it to the faith. Red would become the blood of Christ and the green is probably a symbol for eternal life since the green is significantly different then the Easter green.
Arktos is the romanized version of the ancient Greek word for bear and was a mythical centaur who fought against the Lapith spearmen and the fight is depicted on Heracles' shield as depicted by Hesiod.
Easter is white traditionally. The season of Trinity or the Time of the Church is green to symbolise through growth of the church. Advent is blue for Mary and Lent is purple for repentance and the royalty of Christ. The only red season is Pentecost which symbolizes the tongues of flame on the apostles and the Holy Spirit.
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I am a Nerd. Anna is a Dork.
Know the difference (≧▽≦)(≧▽≦)(≧▽≦)
My husband and I are huge dorks.
HOW DARE YOU
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@imjustjk I'm sorry for you both (≧▽≦)(≧▽≦)(≧▽≦)
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Anna isn’t so much a dork is she is just …cringe.
Which…my husband and I are too. Oh, nevermind 🤣
There is no connection to fertility in Norse history (to which I have an ancestral bloodline). Baldur had a brother who wanted him dead. Baldur's mother queen Frigg to all living things loved went to the Forest one summer and made all life in the forest promise not to aid in killing her son. Unfortunately it was summer mistletoe only grows in winter. Therefore Baldur's brother was able to form an arrow from mistletoe. Frigg was a goddess of love and proclaimed that no one should kill her other son out of revenge and declared that mistletoe would be a sign of love and those who came in contact with it should kiss in honor of Baldur.
Why does she keep touching her boobs?
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Lol 😅
2014😅????
Ok
Peace ✌️
12.11.2024
So why such disgust at Christ? It is Christ-mas? Shouldn’t you show as much respect for all religions? Your face doesn’t contort in disgust when talking about Pagans. Nor should it. Just a thought
I’m begging everyone to start pronouncing poinsettia correctly 👏😭 pleeease
Listening to her spout half facts and a lot of bull just brings me back to how well she researched her book.😂 🫚🍞🕺
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😂l tried 😂. I usually make it from scratch every year but l have not made a house 🤔
Just get a festive Godzilla or dinosaur and put it in the failed gingerbread house
@ love it!! Definitely will if l decide to try it 🤣
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