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Dec. 8, 2005 This is a season for evaluation. Have you been naughty or nice? Will Santa be stuffing West Virginia Coal or Chocolate Chip Cookies in your stocking this year? Consider the tradition of the mistletoe. The ancient Druids used mistletoe to celebrate the coming of winter. It was a symbol of Love and Peace. If two warring clans came upon some mistletoe they would immediately call a truce. This also explains the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe. Potentially, a person can be kissing and making up with an enemy. . The Vikings expanded on the tradition to include the Love Goddess Freya . The mistletoe became a kissing tool for lovers and enemies as well. A Nordic woman who stood under the mistletoe was traditonally proposing marriage.. The Viking man who kissed her agreed to accept the offer of matrimony. In some ancient communities, Mistletoe was used in the red light district to advertise that the woman was available for kissing and perhaps more. The early church banned the use of mistletoe in Christmas celebrations because of its pagan origins. Instead, church leaders mandated the use of holly as an suitable alternative for the contraband mistletoe . The new rule was that you could kiss a friend or enemy under the holly branch but you could no longer compromised their virtue. In other words, holly leaves means a kiss with no hankie pankie until the ring and ceremony! Pagans with their mistletoes had more fun and still do. It would be a source of entertainment to visualize opponents kissing each other. Just imagine the amusement of seeing Jerry Faldwell kissing Larry Flint. Dittohead Rush and the New York Senator Hillary could be in a passionate lip lock. Feminist leader Gloria Steinem conceivably might run a kissing booth at a Masculist men's convention. There are a few UK writers who do well to utilize the "kiss thy enemy" tradition. The question is ------ Do we send them the mistletoe or the holly branch? I would not recommend sending mistletoe to the UK Writer, Zappa U. Frankly. It would be like kissing Pepe Le Pew with a Texas accent. A chaste on the cheek will more than suffice for most. Personally, I choose the mistletoe over the holly. I wouldn't mind a little more naughty and a lot less nice. Santa can stuff coal in my stocking. West Virginia coal is a valuable commodity in this community. If you squeeze it hard enough, it can become a diamond. It has always been my fantasy to go to a Republican men's convention and charm them all right out of their pinstriped boxer shorts. That would be the ultimate of bad. Sadly, that fantasy will not become a reality. Republican men like holly leaves better. A Libertarian man is a reasonable facsimile. I have a feeling that one Libertarian man under the mistletoe can be a whole lot more fun than a roomful of ditto heads Santa can send the chocolate chip cookies to Dubya's House. He can share them with Dick Chaney. All Chocolate Chip Cookies do is make my fanny too big. A little more naughtiness a day keeps the fat fairy away. ------------ About the author: Bonijean Isaacs is a freelance writer and Astrologer in West Virginia. Email: inez4liberty@gmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com. Please link to this article rather than copying and pasting it onto your site (which would be unauthorized and illegal). |
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