Christmas tree
Lighting and/or decorating tree
Xmas instead of Christmas
exchanging gifts
Yule log
December 25
Twelfth Night
Santa Claus
The Magi
Wreaths of holly or other evergreens
Kissing under the mistletoe
feasting and merrymaking
2007-11-18 00:31:24 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
WOW! I started doing reseach on these specific Christmas customs and what I found is mind boggling! I already knew that Christmas was actually a pagan holiday thinly disguised as Christian. But just how deeply rooted in paganism I did not know. It goes all the way back to Nimrod! In fact, Jesus was not born on December 25, but guess who was? NIMROD! The very one whom Satan used to start false religion among mankind after the flood of Noah's day! I'm only including a few of the details I found and the references because the answer would be much too long if I included everything!
Christmas tree -After his untimely death, Nimrod's mother-wife, Semiramis, taught the lie that her husband-son was a spirit god. She claimed a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolized the springing forth to new life of the dead Nimrod. She taught that on the anniversary of his birth, which was December 25, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it.
Plants and trees that remained green all year had a special meaning for pagan peoples in the winter. Just as people today decorate their homes during the festive season with pine, spruce, and fir trees, ancient peoples hung evergreen boughs over their doors and windows. It was believed that evergreens would keep away witches, ghosts, evil spirits, and illness.
2007-11-19 13:34:58 · answer #1 · answered by babydoll 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Christmas From yuletide, or the iciness Solstice. This became the darkest day and longest evening of the 12 months. It represented the beginning of the o.ok.King, and since the day representing the beginning of a God, it became co-opted by applying Christians to have fun the beginning of their God. Easter comes from Ostara ... that's a fertility pageant, and to that end celebrated with bunnies and eggs and such. The Christians have fun Easter on the 1st Sunday following the 1st complete moon on or after the vernal equinox. Harvest on the same time as many have fun the harvest, its beginning is in basic terms interior the extremely harvest. candlemas Candlemas is likewise time-honored as Imbolc, and celebrates the tip of iciness. that's a time of birthing and new beginnings. it is totally almost the tip of iciness, and the 1st actual beginnings of Spring are beginning to coach. halloween all soul's day Halloween and all soul's day come from Samhain, that's extremely Celtic for "November". Samhain is the dinner social gathering of the ineffective, the place we remember our ancestors. In Christianity, it represents plenty the same difficulty, with the exception that Christians do no longer desire to commune with their ancestors. would day would Day is the well-liked social gathering of Beltane, which represents the authentic social gathering of the fertility of Spring.
2016-10-17 04:18:27 · answer #2 · answered by saulsbery 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well dec 25 is when the pagans celebrated the birth of the sun god, and the churchwanted to get in on the party, so they said that was Jesus's birthday also to get the pagans to come to their celebration instead. Jesus wan't born in dec.
2007-11-18 00:37:20 · answer #3 · answered by doodledoomom 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
All Pagan customs .
2007-11-18 00:35:46 · answer #4 · answered by rjm 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Christmas orginates with pre-Christian traditions, some of these traditions are associated with sexual and social themes.
2007-11-18 00:39:50 · answer #5 · answered by jojannequeen 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
pagan cutoms..
2007-11-18 00:37:35 · answer #6 · answered by Mary Ann 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋