The Animated History of Christmas 

I can't even escape PragerU during fictional dreams in other people's videos... 😖

It’s obvioussssssss! IT’S ALL ABOUT THE LE BEBE JESUS

In my country the Netherlands sinterklaas is on 5/6 december and it is just as big of a feast as christmes, but more fun for the kids because Its far more mysterious.

Not a creature was sturing,not even my RU-vid recommendation I'm glad I clicked on this video

Copious amounts of alcohol you say! I guess I've been celebrating Yuletide this whole time.

Pre-christians: significance Romans:Date of holiday Northerners:Customs and traditions Finns:Meaning of transport East slavs:Image

Damn 1 day late

In Scandinavia it’s still called Yule/Jul. And the yuleman lives on Greenland.

In scandinavia we still open presents on christmas eve

Hey just a heads up if you use Hebrew again in the future, the language reads right to left. You had Messiach/Messiah - משיח spelled backwards. Nonetheless, great vid.

I liked the part where Santa fell, Lolz

The hebrew writing is inverted

One of my Christmas traditions is getting a present on Christmas eve... It's always clothes

Congrats on 500k subs my friend! You deserve it!

The terror is also the name for a 1960s horror movie with Boris Karloff (aka Frankenstein's monster) and a young jack Nicholson (and yes that guy from the shining)

What a great video. I wish everyone happy Christmas holidays

You wrote the word messiah in Hebrew upside down 🤣

Nice video.Merry Christmas from Bulgaria.

It was a nice video!! I liked a lot how the Christmas tradition are not only relationated with Santa and it came from years and years of tradition in the Roman empire and also with the religion

Did you just annex Poland and Czech / Bohemia? Western Slav traditions are not same as our Eastern brethren or German cousins...

"KB was nestled all snug in his bed with visions of Prager U tormented his head." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

That's so cool how every place had someone slightly different

What is Odin doing in Lithuanian lands?

In English : Christ In Greek : Χριστός In 1021 Parchment paper was quite expensive, so any techniques for saving space were welcome. The abbreviation stuck and eventually was shortened to Xmas.

Damn, that Terror book is legit awesome. You get respect in my book, fam. Cheers!

I loved this so much! I've often wondered how St. Nicholas became Santa Clause. This answered so many of my questions.

And today it is just as much a secular holiday as it is a Christian one.

Fun fact: In Denmark we say that Santa (Julemanden) lives in Greenland :)

The one who created christmas i love you and its such lovely holiday

Christmas we know today has got a lot of things that has nothing to do with the birth of Christ for example: Santa Claus, Christmas trees, elves, candies, reindeers, toys, Santa's sleigh and decorations.

Anyone remember the time Santa Claus (St. Nicholas) supposedly got jailed for holding a temper tantrum at some religious council? Possibly Nicaea or Edirne or something 😂🤣

Best video on this channel so far 🎄

Christmas!!!!!!!!!! Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!! Christmas!!!!!!!!! Christmas bells Christmas bells Christmas bells

Will you do an animated history of Romania?

Where my icelandic yule lads at?

Sinterklaas is a mix of a catholic bishop, St. Nicholas, and Odin. Not just his own thing. I think it's interesting how the old ways sneak themselves into modern celebrations. You can change the name of the holiday but the spirit.

"Trolled the ancient yuletide carol"!

Great video as always dude keep up the good work

I’d be down for more videos like this. Still holding out hope for more mythology videos.

Saturnalia was actually the 17th-20th of December, at longest lasting to the 23rd. The date December 25th was chosen because early Christians calculated and believed Jesus’s conception and death were on March 25th, so since pregnancies last 9 months, December 25th would be his birth. Also, Norse folk didn’t find pine trees sacred, that was oak trees. They had no tradition of putting up a Yule tree either. Christmas trees date back to 1200s France where they were props in Adam and Eve plays, and represented the paradise trees in the Garden of Eden. I also wished you would go more in detail about how the feast of Saint Nicholas was merged with Christmas, which is why the Santa and gift stuff is also celebrated in Christmas.

1:27 the beginning 😎

Merry Christmas 🎄

“Cozy up to the fire, get ya eggnog” for a 9 minute video 😂

Of course in Australia they leave Beer out instead of milk.

There were not three wise men. It's never stated how many wisemen came. Only the 3 named gifts.

We still have Sinterklaas in the Netherlands

That's Obviousssssss!!!! Christmas is about LE BEBE GEEZUS!!!!.... Case Closed!!!!!

This guy roasted PragerU

Lets be real, CocaCola and Capitalism are to blame for our modern instance of "Santa"

Nowhere in the Bible does it say that there were three wise men. There were three gifts but the number of men was never stated

Using this in my class

0:35 I just watched PragerU LOL 😂😂😂 P.S the amazing history of Christmas!

Missing : Piñatas, posadas, belenes, flor de noche

(Fun) Thanks for giving me money. I'am frying up the money for rolexes and other stuff, that no one can buy 😎😎😎😎. I splurge with the stuff from christmas, hope you like it !

ALL gift givers merged together in to 1 gift giver.. ether lives in the cold north, or greenland.

Christmas existed since the Roman Empire and before Jesus Christ was born it was the religious festival called Saturnalia

Do history of Canada

Can you do the history of the Austria-Hungary empire?

Mary Christmes and a happy new year!!!!!🎆

That' Obvioussssss!!!! Christmas is about LE BEBE GEEZUS!!!!....

Thank you for explaining the REAL reason for the season! I read Romans would greet each other with a yo yo yo during Saturnalia.

my college professor told me Christmas was racist lol

Tell us more about sinterklaas.

Australia: *Santa just wants to get drunk too*

Could you please do an animated history of the Balcan countries (by witch i mean the southern slavic countries)

not quite, ita missa est - not you are dismissed, but 'is sent' scilicet ostia missa est, the sacrificium is sent.

Love the video!

Christmas however replaced the extension made to Saturnalia to celebrate Sol Invictus, since Saturnalia originally didn't cover the 25th, this was made by Aurelianus, however the figure of Sol Invictus was probably taken from the Christians so the Romans could have a single monotheistic imperial god, and the date was most likely copied from eastern Christians like the Copts which already celebrated Christmas on December 25th. So you can say Christmas was stablished to replace Sol Invictus stablished by Aurelianus which was copied from the Christmas of the Copts, making it go full circle.

You better watch RU-vid channel by Religion for Breakfast that explains academically the origin of Christmas.. Explanation here is heavy loaded by popular myth that Christmas was originated from pagan origin..

Please do The Animated History of Portugal

That’s Obvioussssss!!!! Christmas is about LE BEBE GEEZUS!!!!.... Case Closed!!!!!

Santa lives in Korvatunturi. Perkele.

PragerU pops up when I type in History of Christmas along with this video and others. lol

Can you do one about Romania please and celts please :)

...a carrot for his horse... eh ... how about Rudolph the reindeer? ;)

Great video!

7:23 didn't know Santa has a horse.

WoW

I adroitly decree against this fatuous video

Is there actually a translation of the bible where its 3 wise men? To my knowledge/the two sections in the translation I know, it's just "a few" wise men, bringing gifts "such as gold, ...". The 3 being a number used in modern stories/plays to account for the three kinds of presents.

25 days left

the birth of bebe gesus oh yes end of story

No. Saturnalia being on the 25th comes from one source. The length of saturnalia also differed during different centuries. The reason Christmas is on December 25th is because early Christians had this idea in their head that Jesus was conceived and crucified on the same day; march 25th. March + nine months = December.

When you are 1 day late to get your Christmas video to get out.

So, it's a lot more complicated than what people make it out to be

Loved the video, but I'm sorry, small remark - in Ukraine the winter giftbringer is Saint Nickolas (in Urk. Святий Миколай).

1:05 that looks like a live stream........... I HAVE SEEN THIS!!!!!! IN ONE OF IGP'S BEWARE VIDEOS!!!!!!!!!!!!

How to sleep? Just listen to THE TERROR.

Did he just make Denmark germany?

Praise Odin...I mean... Merry Christmas!

I like these videos!!!

What about john Marco allegro or what's his face and the book the sacred mushroom and the cross. Which tells about how a lot of these traditions were centered around trippy mushrooms?

A tomte or nisseis NOT an elf tho, hes based on the haugvette/hill-vette A vette is an umbrella term in norse culture for almost all mythological creatures, from elves, drawfs, trolls etc

Also no one knows if there were three, two, or more wise man, us Christains just say that there were three kings because they were bringing three gifts to baby Jesus

LoL This was unexpected!

In Western Asia/Persia they have some Shab-e Yalda (night of forty) where they eat watermelons and get drunk.

Love the vid! You just get better ❤

Very messy Christmas times.

I watch this on xmas

Great History of the Christmas at the Videos RU-vid.