And why couldn't it be on here as Samhain? Crappy?I think so, who's with me guys?
2006-12-06 02:13:45 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Halloween
I mean on the sections for questions other faiths holidays are listed except holidays that are pagan which I find discriminatory being wiccan an all. And to those that don't realise we are a legitimate faith with legitimate holidays.That's all.
2006-12-06 04:36:22 · update #1
Because, honestly, the holidays listed here are only the ones that you'll find listed on your average mundane calendar. It's a case of numbers - assuming 300,000 Pagans in the US (a reasonable, if somewhat dated number), that puts us at less than 1% of the population. That's not a significant enough number for Yahoo to build out extra sections just for us.
2006-12-07 05:11:35 · answer #1 · answered by ArcadianStormcrow 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
May i add as well that Easter is also a Pagan holiday...
Check the bible! No chickens, no rabbits, no eggs... so where does it all come from? The word easter is a derivative of oestrogen... the female reproductive horomone. Happens around march time.. the beginning of spring and the spring equinox. The eggs symbolise fertility (nothing to do with rolling any stones) and as for the bunnies... its becuase we should all be ... "At it like rabbits"....
Every holiday that we have is actually a pagan holiday in disguise becuase when the Roman Catholics came over hundreds of years ago they took everything and basically said that pagans had stolen "their" holidays. The same goes with Christmas... also known as Yule... hence why we still have the Yule log (although it was originally celebrated on the 22nd of December but i think this date moved slightly when the 13 month callender was changed) and also once again it says in the Bible that Jesus was born sometime in July!!! So why we celebrate his birthday in December i'll never know...
Easter is the funniest one i think though... the oldest conspiracy cover up failed miserably... ^_^
xxxCat
2006-12-06 02:31:02 · answer #2 · answered by crycan1985 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Easter was taken as a Christian holiday named to make a fool of the fertility Goddess Ester and the hare that was a sign of fertility as are eggs
Christmas as already said was an old pagan date taken over by Christians as the date for the birth of Christ
(original date for the birth of Christ was sometime in March I think)
April fools day was named that by Christians as a put down because that was the first day of the year in the old pagan calender
2006-12-09 10:23:58 · answer #3 · answered by Jules 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christmas is also a Pagan holiday.
I'm Pagan and I don't find it discriminatory at all. If you want to discuss Pagan holidays in depth, why not check out www.mysticwicks.com which is an online Pagan community.
2006-12-06 18:46:37 · answer #4 · answered by Cinnamon 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Some holidays have incorporated pagan rituals into the traditional holiday rituals.
Take Easter for example,what does the Easter bunny have to with Christ's resurrection?
2006-12-08 13:52:21 · answer #5 · answered by Ralph T 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you've been a pagan for awhile, you should have learned that there are four major and four minor pagan holidays. You'll also have learned that the xtian fundie majority would have a major meltdown if you proposed that all pagan holidays be endorsed by society. Unfortunately, you're the one most likely to get burned, so your best bet is to keep those holiday observances to yourself, and only share when you can be certain of those of us who share your beliefs. For instance, I choose to observe Lammas and Imbolg, but privately.
2006-12-06 02:32:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
I guess you don't know the "true" origins of all holidays. Christmas was originally a celebration of the pagan Sun god, Tammuz/Marduk. Christmas day represents the pagan rebirth of the sun god to bring about summer again after dying off in winter. All the lights and balls on the christmas tree represent the sun and moon gods. The tree itself, which is always green, represents the eternity of the sun.
Easter comes from the pagan celebration of the pagan goddess Ester, the goddess of fertility. The eggs and traditions in easter representing being fertile.
Valentines day dates back to Nimrod from after Noahs ark. His mother was Ester in whom he also married. Nimrod was worshipped as the sun god. Which also is where christmas came from. One of the names of the early sungods was Marduk. This name came from nimrod, the letter in his name niMRoD=MRD=Marduk. Before Nimrod married his mother, she desired him and he became known as her Cupid. Also nimrod was a mighty hunter, so thats why Cupid also has the bow and arrow.
So as you can see, there is nothing but pagan holidays listed here.
2006-12-06 17:48:51 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, to be honest, we get enough Christian fundamentalists telling us we worship Satan I can do without a category for them to aim at ;-)
Having said that, most Christian holidays are pagan at root, so I don't really mind as long as they don't mind us gatecrashing their categories with pagan topics
2006-12-09 04:54:33 · answer #8 · answered by pixiefeet@btinternet.com 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Samhain and halloween are considered different in my book. I think it's because those holidays are not mainstream.
2006-12-08 01:49:42 · answer #9 · answered by KathyS 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm with you! Where's the rest? Any idea how we can get a Pagan Holiday category, since I doubt we can get them all listed.
2006-12-06 07:08:15 · answer #10 · answered by Dreaming Dragon 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋