(November 25, 2020 at 12:11 pm)Lawz Wrote:(November 25, 2020 at 11:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: We thought about having a traditional USian Thanksgiving just to see what all the fuss was about, but we couldn’t find any Native Americans to exploit.
Boru
As with Christmas and the winter solstice, it appears the TRUE meaning of thanksgiving has got nowt todo with Native Americans (nor Christianity, for that matter). According to wiki they celebrate it in Japan and Germany even
Quote:Pilgrims and Puritans who emigrated from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving
Yeah, lots of places have a harvest festival of some sort or other, a holdover from an era when a good enough harvest to keep fewer people from starving to death was thanks worthy.
Boru
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