RE: Are you celebrating Christmas?
December 28, 2010 at 2:27 pm
(This post was last modified: December 28, 2010 at 2:38 pm by GANIMEDE.)
(December 28, 2010 at 11:14 am)Darwinian Wrote: The word Christmas originated as a compound meaning "Christ's Mass". It is derived from the Middle English Christemasse and Old English Cristes mæsse, a phrase first recorded in 1038.
Yes, we know that "Christmas" is the celebration of the "Anoited" i.e. "Cristos" etc. "Christ + Mass" etc.
But the actual celebration, which occurrs following the Mid-Winter Solstace, is probabbly the most ancient of all Pagan celebrations. It is the celebration of the lengthening of the days which begins after 22 December. The ancients lacked precise instruments, so the "verification" took a few days. Thus 25 December.
Emperor Constantine was a adherant of the Mythriac religion, popular among all the upper classes in the Empire. Christ with a bright halo surrounding his head is actually a depiction of Mythra, the sun deity. It was Constantines wife, a fanatic Christian, who talked her husband into adopting Christianity as the state religion. It was she who placed "Christs Birth" at 25 December. Pasting it over the ancient Roman holiday of SOLA VINCES, which was probably some sort of comprimise.
