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Nardoqan or Narduğan was celebrated by Turks on December 21, the longest night of the year and the night of the winter solstice. On this night, symbolizing old sun, becomes smaller as the days become shorter in the Northern Hemisphere, and dies on December 22, the winter solstice. It is said to be defeated by the dark and evil powers. On December 23 becomes the new sun.

While some scholars trace the origins of the Christmas tree to pagan rituals in pre-Christian England, others suggest the tradition was borrowed from ancient Germanic peoples. Now, however, veteran Turkish archaeologist Muazzez Ilmiye Çığ provides a new voice to the long-standing debate: The Turks were the ones who invented the Christmas tree

The Christmas tree, a brightly adorned symbol for Christians on one of their holiest days, also represents a link to the ancient Turks of Central Asia, according to a Turkish archaeologist.

Its origins are not in Norse myth or British isle paganism, as most Western histori