Capitolo 57
loots on the oak of the Hill of Capitulate of it. And this custom of
decorating the tree with actual gold returns in history until us we are able
satisfy him/it entering down to us the history of Jason and the Gilded Fleece
and in that of the Apples Dorati of the Hesperides. Now the custom
you/he/she has decreased to this flung of the tinsel on the Christmas Albero--the prank
you sacrifice for the truth.
He touched the masks and he/she explained the surly history behind which you/he/she has placed them
derision. It conducted again to the common custom in the antiquity to sacrifice
imprisoned of war or it condemned criminal or innocent victims in forest
adoration and of curtain their heads on the branches: we know this to
you/he/she has been the practice among Gallic and the tribes of Teuton. In the progress
of time, when such barbarity could not be born more, the prank
expression replaced the true one.
He touched the dolls and it revealed their sad history. As the others,
its long run conducted to the antiquity and the custom to sacrifice
children in adoration of forest. How commune was soon the this custom
the literature of the human run too richly testifies. We meet
his trace in the sacrifice of Abraham of Isaac--it arrested from the
Jehovah's command. But Abraham would never have thought to killing
his/her child to propitiate his/her God, didn't have the custom been well
established. In the case of the daughter of Jephthah the sacrifice was
indeed it allowed. We enter on the same custom the fate of
Iphigenia--to a critical turn in the mercy of the world; in her
sets the life of an animal young person, as in the case of Isaac, it was
approved. When the protective charity of humanity turned against the
the inhumanity of the old faiths, then the substitution of the prank for
the true sacrifice became complete. And now on the branches of the
Christmas Albero where richly we come on footprints of primitive rites
only these happy toys have gone away to suggest the massacre of the
innocent.
He had covered the earth; all had produced his/her history. All the