i am not joking
I heard the pagens used to hang 1 of all the animals and 1 person from the village tree each year as sacrifice. and that after the were converted that they hung ornaments on the tree instead.. does that mean that if i have a xmas tree that im promoting pagan rituals..i saw it on tv
2006-08-21 06:02:00 · 20 answers · asked by 21/f/mn 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
I have never heard or read that. I am Pagan and I decorate my tree with white lights, suns, stags, stars and red balls. These things represent to me the birth of the Son/Sun.
http://www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/WinterSolstice.html
Blessings )O(
2006-08-21 06:12:24 · answer #1 · answered by Epona Willow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
absolutely not true. I'm pagan and I've also done a lot of research into the origin of customs- I have NEVER read anything of the sort about Christmas trees, or as pagans call them Yule trees. Some pagans, depending upon their tradition, use the quarter days (Yule as new year) and some use cross quarter (Samhain as new year) and some celebrate both quarter and cross quarter high days. In any case the Yule tree symbolizes new life in the cycle of the year. We bring the green into our homes to remind ourselves that even on the darkest day of the year (winter solstice) the light will return and with it life.
There is a common misconception about pagans having a yearly sacrifice using a wicker man. Supposedly a huge effigy of a man is made from wicker and it is filled with animals and one man and then burned to put the life back into the land. This lie came from Julius Cesar and has been proven to be a myth.
2006-08-21 09:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by boanna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Christmas Tree goes back to the morality plays of the Middle Ages. A fir was hung with apples to signify the Garden of Eden (and the Tree of the Forbidden Fruit).
The Church eventually banned the plays because abuses crept into the production, but the people kept the Christmas Tree which evolved into the present day Christmas Tree.
Its origin is not pagan. It is Christian.
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2006-08-21 16:40:36 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That is utterly rediculous. The tree thing is pagan yes, but of everything I've read, and that's alot, I have never heard hanging animals and people on them as sacrifices. What WERE you watching? Christianity adopted/adapted many pagan rituals and symbols in the hopes of converting people to their ways. The christmas tree is just one of them.
2006-08-21 07:00:49 · answer #4 · answered by PaganPoetess 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never heard that one. I do know that bringing a tree inside during the longest night of the year and burning a Yule log is an ancient Celtic Pagan tradition. So is holly and the colors red and green
2006-08-21 10:25:20 · answer #5 · answered by angel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mankind is capable of doing a lot of stupid things, including that. But the real story of the Christmas goes like this. When Nebuchadnezzar went missing his mother started putting gifts under a evergreen tree (Christmas tree) in hope that her son returns after a while others pick up on this putting gifts under an evergreen in hope of something. Also people started using Christmas trees for who knows what. And somehow, some way it became and tradition. Now this is just a very short explanation, you can read the full story at your public library, which I strongly recommend that you do.... Please have a nice day.............
2006-08-21 06:26:21 · answer #6 · answered by kilroymaster 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The answer lies in what you want to believe. If you believe the Bible, then read this:
Jeremiah 10:2-4: "Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not." (KJV).
This is yet another Christian contradiction (those who follow contradicting the Bible...and scriptures within the Bible contradicting each other) and why I do not believe.
If you want to believe the Bible, you will not be able to do so as a whole...you must pick and choose.
2006-08-21 09:03:42 · answer #7 · answered by I I 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I go to a Catholic High School and they tought us that;so yes it is true.The easter eggs at easter were also this sick pagen thing,we also learned that Chritmas (12/25) isnt really Jesus' birthday that it is a pagen festival.The teacher said that it would have been fall that Jesus was born in(my teacher is the historian of the town).It is really sick and disterbing that all my religons' customs were adapted from this SICK religon.`
2006-08-23 05:35:17 · answer #8 · answered by ? Emii ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is not any record of Christmas timber previously approximately 1600...hundreds of years after paganism became into extinguished in Germany (the place Christmas timber confirmed up.) So whether the sacrifice tale is actual (i don't comprehend), there is not any continuity between the pagan prepare and the Christian one. They the two in basic terms ensue to contain timber.
2016-10-02 09:00:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
everyone seems to have a different story for the christmas tree, for frosty the snow man, etc.......
you can still use the christmas tree as a symbol of christmas happiness or whatever you use it for. it is whats in "your" heart that matters and your intentions.
2006-08-21 06:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by amber 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋