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Yuletide pageant merry go round

Yuletide pageant merry go round Panoply of mystical elements of holly day style breathe prez sense frostily exhaled aired per millennia athwart (this terrestrial spaceship planet Earth) two plus seventeen carousel rides resonated veritable pantheon of pagan rituals and quirky superstitions lit (akin to a lit Christmas tree) starry eyed imagination as catalyst viz *****Sapiens furrowed stern brow of forehead aft stemmed whilst Santa oft puzzling (allocating suitable gifts) inducing him to tug thought generating beard pondering, whence agents provocateurs receive just desserts fueled hodge podge, mish mashed, helter skelter eclectic December twenty fifth encompassing tens of thousands previous generations bred despacito fixtures via paganism, Manichaeism, Jainism, et cetera ancient brutish credos, ethos, faiths brewed nebulous concoction within mindset of early mankind loose confection, confederation, conglomeration indiscriminately torquing, vetting, whetting disparate constituent beliefs contagion wrought spirit paradigm inculcating oral tradition Madonna and child occupying high chair whereat superstitions birthed patchwork comprising divergent ensemble heralding tender petsmart impact, where world wide web populated with sacrificial pacification sans deity via oblation, immolation, flagellation appeasing Dominatrix borrow wing, vis a vis amalgamated viz Roman sol invictus wrought fiery brimstone tempting those who dared assert contrary fledgling jambalaya outlook provoking regally supreme sacerdotal wiseman punishing opposing incorporating novel modus operandi explaining sacrilegious worship such heretics pitched headlong into fiendish frothing furnace forcing obeisance toward primitive popular identified, honored, glorified father figure expressing devotion re: decking the halls of the mountain king, whence boughs of Juniper sprigs contriving wreaths sanctifying twisted brambles via sprinkling angel dust (actually cremated remains of malefactors stripped of habiliments) during bleak winter unwittingly interweaving nascent (futuristic) formally codified bona fied religions unknowingly, tacitly, silently rendering quintessential premises obliging layperson to foreswear locally rooted secular treatises trounced, trumpeted unction voided wishy washy antithetical blind faith coalescing edicts over course of time became established Greco-Roman imposed group think disallowing cynics, diametrically emerging fanatics, skeptics who (if he/she did not recant recalcitrant recommended recourse faced torture amidst throng of madding crowd as entertainment and forewarning gall asper those who held steadfast dissimilar views taught since birth, when citizenry reared as just a little drummer boy/ girl pipsqueak taught to stay the course (sans straight and true) bound without freedom to express contrary aspects of ways and whyfores, which accepted traditions controlled each green day and silent night, wherefore unimaginable ogres lined straying hip cats eventually ensnared within warpath, whence law of the land lend scimitar to smite any mortal man, woman or child with flaming torches licking the heretical body electric, while defiant individuals left to burn into decimated charcoal blackened, ashen corpse.

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