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Thats the reason I refuse to built the maypol.
"Recorded evidence of Maypole Dancing goes back at least to the 14th century, the texts suggesting the custom was very old even then"
"Maypole dancing comes down to us from the rites of spring dedicated to Freya, although the pole was originally a living tree representing Yggdrasill, the enormous ash tree that is the great "world tree" of Norse cosmology."
So Pagan in origin and old enough to be from Viking age.
btw good job finding such detailed info o-o
When you try to search for maypoles almost all of them look like the ones in this game. Sad that history was erased.
You can't build it.
Aka, change date on your clock and you will be able to build christmas stuff?
didn't try it personally
I just went with mod that makes christmas and halloween stuff all year long ;D
Midsommer is a horrible piece of Garbage and like the new Craft movie should never have been made... Pagan's and Witches need to stop being demonized. I miss the last round in the 90s and early 2000s where we were shown usually in a much more positive light.
In this case the Maypole used is the one that is common in Sweden which has the cross beam rather than a straight pole with the hoop either suspended horizontally from the top or the pole hatched with ribbons for a maypole dance where the hoop is placed at the top and is slowly lowered as the dance proceeds.
What is important to note. Is there is no direct evidence one way or the other to say the Swedish version is "christianized" or is just unique to them. Swede's were a interesting bunch and may have just did their own thing with a tradition learned from the Geats.
It should also be noted that there is a great deal of Christian Romanticism in the game already. The Vegvisir is not a Heathen thing it is an Icelandic invention in the post Christian period and is based on Christian style magic not Heathen style.
So I don't have a major issue with it personally. (particularly as the Maypole it self may be a modern Christian tradition in the first place so if they are included at all it is odd)
No. You literally cannot build it. You can cheat one in, but that's it.
I have to disagree with you. The origin of the maypole stretches way back as a symbol of fertility, celebrated at blot in the spring. Not at midsummer (it was moved much later due to lack of leaves for decoration). Saying that christianity didn't have anything to do with modifying a pagan holiday by making it a cross, is just pure ignorance. Pretty much the same way as the "christmas" tree originally hung from the ceiling. Actually a symbol of Yggdrasil during winter blot, but celebrated in february. Not in december.
But this is pointless arguing.
The maypole has been found in stone carvings from, and before the viking age.
Long before christianity came to the Norse.
The carvings depict a pole, with a ring at the top, and long strings from the ring wich people held and danced around the pole. But since that mechanic would be weird to recreate ingame, a pole with a ring would do just fine.