Let me make this clear; I love Christmas. It is the best time of the year, blah blah blah all that stuff you hear on every commercial every December. However, even a Christmas lover like me has to admit Christmas has some weird ass traditions. While almost everyone and their mother has heard about how Christmas traditions originated from pagans and the such, not many have heard the finer details on those origins. Dear reader, I am here to fill that void you did not even know you had.One of the first Christmas traditions many thinks of is, of course, the Christmas tree. Oh that wonderful time when we slaughter a tree, decorate its corpse, then parade it in our living rooms with decorations! Tree worship is something that had existed in Nordic and Germanic cultures for generations before Christianity came. In Nordic mythology, trees are central to existence as Yggdrasil, the World Tree , is what holds up the Nine Worlds and gives structure to the universe. However, as Christianity…