I was just wondering...?

Question

Where on earth did the celebration of a persons birthday come from?? i mean the first day some one is born i understand but why celebrate every year after??? I mean i understand the whole celebration thing, and i do celebrate my birthday and all of my family members birthdays, i was just wondering (if any one knows) how it was started or when it was started and why?? and im asking if anyone knows facts about it, not just made up facts.. something that is written down some where, LOL ... Just curious!!!

~CHEERS!!~

Answer 1

And BAH HUMBUG to you too Miss Sunshine lol

The Origin of Birthdays
http://www.triumphpro.com/birthdays_origin.htm
This fact, however, should not be overly surprising. Writes Linda Rannells Lewis in Birthdays, "Birthdays have been celebrated for thousands of years. In early civilizations, where the development of a calendar made an organized reckoning of birth dates possible, the horoscopes of ruling monarchs, their successors and rivals had to be cast with care and birthday omens meticulously examined, for the prospects of the mighty would affect the prospects of the entire society. By the time of Ptolemy V this practice was well established: 'Ptolemy, the ever living, the beloved of Ptah, the son of the two Brother-Gods, was born on the fifth day of the month DIOS, and this day was, in consequence, the beginning of great prosperity

Answer 2

It's an anniversary, just like a wedding anniversary or anything else that has gone on for many years. Probably because back in the day, people didn' t live too long, so any extra year alive was a reason to celebrate.

Answer 3

I can only guess that when mortality rates were so high and so many people died young that folks celebrted making it through another year alive

Answer 4

Why question it, & just enjoy all the free stuff you get...? hmm?

Answer 5

since you asked...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday#History_of_celebration_of_birthdays_in_the_West

Answer 6

? you just confused me allot?!