2006-11-13 15:53:08 · 6 answers · asked by Pretty_in_punk 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
Originally, it was a sacred Native American fall festival. The pilgrims had landed too late for the usual harvesting, so they managed, with the Native's help, to produce enough food to survive the winter.
It was a special remembrance of how the Natives had aided and welcomed the British into a new world.
We all know how they were "rewarded".
The pilgrims weren't great hunters, but they did manage to hunt down a wild turkey for that first feast.
2006-11-13 16:01:11 · answer #1 · answered by mithril 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is suppose to be a celebration of thanks to the goddess mother earth and the god of harvest for bestowing people with fertile land to grow abundant crops during the spring and summer so that they have food to last through the winter. It comes from the oldest religion... Wicca and I am not sure about why most people choose to eat a turkey.
2006-11-13 16:02:30 · answer #2 · answered by jjewel 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We're re-enacting the first winter feast that the Pilgrims had with the Indians. the turkey is a wild animal in Virginia and Pennsylvania so it was the meat of choice back then.
2006-11-13 15:55:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most holidays that we celebrate today are throwbacks to ancient pagan rituals. Maybe our cultural need to commemorate the day we invaded the Native Americans' land simply lined up with an old pagan day intended to celebrate harvest time.
2006-11-13 15:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The answer was in your American History book, Twinkie.
2006-11-13 16:47:04 · answer #5 · answered by m. b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thanksgiving...we give thanks to God for our freedom.
Turkey...the first dinner when they celebrated Thanksgiving day.
2006-11-13 16:01:15 · answer #6 · answered by alandicho 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋