the symbolisms of the christmas tree and the decorations?

Question

Christmas

Answer 1

Common conventional practiced version:
7th century, a monk from Credition in Devonshire went to Thuringia in Germany to preach and do good works. (with the later site developing into an industry of festive decoration.) The monk used triangular shape of the fir tree to demonstrate the Holy Trinity. People hung trees upside-down from ceilings at Christmas in central Europe to symbolize Christianity. Although by reported accounts, the first decorated tree was at Riga in Latvia, in 1510s. Martin Luther reportedly decorated a small tree with candles to show children how stars twinkled in darkness. In the 1800s, people were standing trees on floors and decorating them with tidbits of everything. Small toys were popular ornaments. Before standing trees on the floor, people placed them on tables due to limited space as you would know of 16th century traditional English homes.

Decorations tended to borrow its connotations from nature, in which early pagans before Christianity were said to have used also. With the seasonal winters longer then, dried flowers, berries, brightly coloured wood carvings of birds and squirrels, and ornaments reminisce of Spring time were adorned on the tree. Russian wooden dachas were characteristic of this practice in their homes and on the structures, except painted in gold to bring the notion of sun into the home and as ambient lighting. The poinsettia, a common ornament, appears without religious roots. Story has it that a girl willed it through the church’s floor.

Answer 2

It says in Jeremiah 10 of the Book. That,"The vanity of man
causes him to cut down a tree from the forest. And nail it up straight, so it doesn't move, and puts silver and gold on it."
It says, "Do not fear them. For they do not know that they do
evil. And niether is it in them to do any good."
I pondered on this one night at a Christmas celebration in a church.
I have studied many things, and know the pagans didn't
originally worship sex. They worshipped fertility. The ability to
make babies. Thus the symbols of male and female sexuality.
As I looked at the tree. I had a realization. There are a lot
of "balls" on it.
Therefore, I have concluded that the "tree" was originally a pagan phallic symbol, representing male sexuality.
I don't have that much of a problem with it in someone's home. But I wish they wouldn't put them up in Gods house. Get a Nativity scene instead.
Thank you very much.

Answer 3

I looked this up once before. Go to an encyclopedia and check under the topic of holidays or Christmas. It should list all the pagan symbols of each holiday including Christmas. All of the icons used at Christmas are of pagan origin. If you do a study of Christians in the time of Jesus and afterward, you will find that they never celebrated these pagan practices. They knew that they were derived from the Roman culture as well as other non believing nations. If this question is still up for awhile I will get my notes and respond to your specifics.

Answer 4

The Druids would decorate their temples with mistletoe and acorns. The oak was sacred to them. For the German tribes the oak tree was sacred to Odin their God of War. They would decorate it every dec. and sacrifice to it until the 8th century when St.Boniface urged them to decorate a young fir tree in honor of the Christ Child.

Answer 5

the symbolisms of the christmas tree and the decorations?
Yes.


That is a pretty crumby question.

Ancient PAGAN Jazz.

Answer 6

It's all pagan. Just focus on the good stuff and let the pagans have their rituals i suppose. God will open the eyes of those whose eyes are supposed to get opened.

Saint Nicholas didn't wear a Coca Cola red coat btw. Read it up and you'll find out that it was the coca cola company that made Santa what he is today.

Answer 7

Jeremiah 10:2 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. 3 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. {customs...: Heb. statutes, or, ordinances are vanity} 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.

Answer 8

Christmas tree is so you have something to put your presents under and the decorations are so Santa can find your house. Geez... don't they teach anything in school these days? :P

Answer 9

look on wikipedia for the whole symbolism but as i remember the tree is a sign of rebirth...the evergreen in winter thing. decorations i'm not real sure on how they started but in my family they usually mean something...an event or special meaning.

Answer 10

That Pagan and Catholic Crap that got into our Religion, but its wrong

Jesus didn't make tree on earth to chop down and put presents on them, and then through them out like the never lived.