Have you always wondered why the bible doesn’t say anything about why we decorate an evergreen tree and why doesn’t it say anything about the trappings and customs of Christmas, I thought Christmas was to celebrate the birth of Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The date of the Christmas celebration is a fusion of Mithras rituals and the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The evergreen tree comes from Germanic practices, the holly and ivy is a "reinvention" of pagan practices by the Victorians in Britain; there is little evidence of holly and ivy in primary sources but such practices would have been completely removed during the British Interregnum after the English Civil War (1640s).
The Yule Log is a Germanic/Norse tradition, the log should be big enough to burn for 12 days and cut from your own land. Those of us that still practice this faith decorate the log with evergreen and feed it honey and mead before lighting it, the kindling should be from the ashes of the last years log.
The 12 days of Christmas is a Heathen tradition to celebrate the Winter Solstice and starts at sunset on the 20th Dec and ends on the 1st Jan; during this time we feast every night and keep the Yule Log burning. On the last day of Yule (1st Jan) we swear oaths for the new year, this has become New Year resolutions.
Heathens have always been keen on hospitality and during the Yule festival we give gifts, this is where the Christmas present came from.
During the Yule period Oðinn changes his name from All-Father to Yule-Father and visits all humans whilst on the Wild Hunt; before Coca-Cola used "Father Christmas" as an advertising campain he was always dressed in green, not the red and white of their company.
Most of the Christmas traditions came from the roman saturnalia celebration and the Germanic tribes solstice celebration
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The tree is based on a Germanic solstice tradition (which is why the use of the tree at christmas started in Germany)– and celebrating Christmas was initially banned in almost every US colony because of it’s lack of being in the bible.
Also, the bible doesn’t say when Jesus was born– the date was chosen based on the solstice and Roman Pagan celebration.
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answer: because very little about Christianity was original. The new religion hijacked the trappings of the pagan religions to urge the pagans to convert. Simple.
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The actual story comes from the story of Mithras.
The date comes from the story of Mithras.
The tree tradition comes from the Germanic tribes in Germany.
Historical evidence puts the birth of Jesus somewhere around March, which is nowhere close to December.
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The date of the Christmas celebration is a fusion of Mithras rituals and the Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. The evergreen tree comes from Germanic practices, the holly and ivy is a "reinvention" of pagan practices by the Victorians in Britain; there is little evidence of holly and ivy in primary sources but such practices would have been completely removed during the British Interregnum after the English Civil War (1640s).
The Yule Log is a Germanic/Norse tradition, the log should be big enough to burn for 12 days and cut from your own land. Those of us that still practice this faith decorate the log with evergreen and feed it honey and mead before lighting it, the kindling should be from the ashes of the last years log.
The 12 days of Christmas is a Heathen tradition to celebrate the Winter Solstice and starts at sunset on the 20th Dec and ends on the 1st Jan; during this time we feast every night and keep the Yule Log burning. On the last day of Yule (1st Jan) we swear oaths for the new year, this has become New Year resolutions.
Heathens have always been keen on hospitality and during the Yule festival we give gifts, this is where the Christmas present came from.
During the Yule period Oðinn changes his name from All-Father to Yule-Father and visits all humans whilst on the Wild Hunt; before Coca-Cola used "Father Christmas" as an advertising campain he was always dressed in green, not the red and white of their company.
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