San Juan Record | 1934-12-20 | Page 5 | Gifts

gifts the custom tit fit iii making akans gifts Is a survival ot of sacrifices offered to ap pease the gods which later turned into expressions of adoration until we see tle the mad bearing to the infant jesus costly gifts mistletoe the mistletoe sacred to many re eglons CiK lons was venerated ly by the druids druies in ancient raul gaul and britain who cut it in celebration ot of their winter feast to the god oil ile be or baal a variation of the phoenician sun KOJ which tell fell as does Chilst mas on the ditc date of the winter solstice the custom pagani ot of kissani under it Is another survival based imon a very interests Inter interest estl ing tradition or the old saxons yule log from froin tile lie saxons aso comes the yule los log which was kin lied in homes in the midwinter feast to express joy that the sun had again leen been re born after the shortest day of tile the I 1 year ind and boull wo dt von ever think that mince pies which no christ I 1 mas inas dinner IV is quite complete were once incredibly huse huge affairs in the shape or of a cradle crade and later of t the dinyer mi man nyer er to remiel us it if the rich spices baroug lirou Klit lit by the eastern angl at to the birth of our beloved 31 master aster