Become a Patron! Tis the season to Praise Saturn, eat too much, drink too much, and celebrate with friends and family. We had a lot of fun researching the Ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia and we wanted to share that fun in the show notes. Here is a handy article with all the tips for celebrating Saturnalia. And for those of you who don’t know what SantaCon is (lucky lucky people) here is an image to haunt your holiday dreams. Wishing you and yours Io Saturnalia. We’ll be back with a new episode in 2019! Sources: https://www.ancient.eu/Saturn/ https://www.thoughtco.com/about-celebrating-saturnalia-2562994 http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.html https://www.througheternity.com/en/blog/hidden-sights/saturnalia-in-ancient-rome.html https://www.britannica.com/topic/Saturn-god https://www.thoughtco.com/fertility-customs-and-magic-2561663 http://etc.ancient.eu/education/saturnalia-festival/ http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.html https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/io_io_io_modern_christmas_vs_roman_saturnalia1/ https://oca.org/saints/lives/1999/11/20/103343-martyr-dasius-of-dorostorum http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/Livy/Livy22.html James Frazer: The Golden Bough https://www.johnsanidopoulos.com/2017/12/the-earliest-extant-sermon-for-new.html http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/secondary/SMIGRA*/Synthesis.html