This is aimed at Christians but all are welcome.
Will you celebrate Halloween? If not, why? Because it is a Pagan holiday? (Yes, Pagan, not Satanic which is totally different) If so, did you know that almost all Christian holidays take their customs from Pagan holidays?
Valentine's Day- Imbolc, celebration of the virgin Goddess bride and the unbridled, pure love she has for the Sun God, give love letters to a crush.
Easter- Ostara, the defeat of Winter by the Sun God, his consumation with the Goddess, paint, hide and find eggs to symbolize fertility.
Halloween- Samhain (pronounced SAV-ayn), the New Year, out with the old, in with the new, jack-o-lanterns and costumes to scare away evil spirits, milk and cake (now candy) offerings to the spirits of ancestors left next to the front door.
The one I hate to bring up, Christmas- Yule, the longest night of the year. Presents are an accidental similarity, but the tree comes from a custom of praying on the Yule log to burn all night.
2006-10-29
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