December 6, 2006

When you think of Christmas...

...you think of goats.
Naturally.




Julebukk or "Christmas buck," is a goat-like creature. Julebukk goes back to Viking times when pagans worshipped Thor and his goat. During celebrations a person carrying a goat head and dressed in a goatskin would make a surprize entrance into a party and during the course of evening and would "die" and return to life. In more recent times the goat has reformed and emerged as the tamer Julebukk.
Puts you right in the holiday spirit, doesn't it?

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