Old pagan fertility phallic symbol. Now it's in almost all homes. The po!e as penis, The ornaments as testicles, tinsil as semen, the wreath as the vagina
I didn't want to say too much. Actually I wanted Tyr to come in and rip it to pieces. I googled it. Seemed to be a few websites with information. Since it's nothing I've heard of or practiced.. dismissed.
Yeah the traditional pines etc. don't really resemble a penis. A pagan fertility symbol would be the love heart which represented the buttox, or a rabbit limb because rabbits always humping hehe.
there is an old joke about that. I am too lazy to type it all out but the basic is that Santa was pissed off and an angel asked "what do you want me to do with this star?" It was by Charlie prose. He was the best clean comedian I knew until comedy central came out.
Isn't most trees phallic is some way. Not even close to as dysturbing as how many nursery rhymes are linked to morbid events.
pagan is one of those words, like indiginous, that represent a very diverse and hetroginous multiplicity of cultures. undoubtedly in many, trees were connected with fertility, as were rather a number of other things at other times of year. on the other paw, though this may also have been partially anti-celtic old religion propiganda, executed political criminals may have been some of the earlier ornaments. of trees in public places. i believe they thought too highly of trees themselves to chop them down and somehow drag then inside their shelters. but again, since there were lots of different cultures, it is likely people in different places did different things. there was a yule log, that i think was used for the timing of telling of stories, by how long it burned. and certainly the smell of pine needles is good for good dreams.