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MERRY PAGAN FESTIVAL, ER, SORRY, CHRISTMAS
Sun, December 24, 2006 - 9:13 PMHello all,
This weekend billions across the world will be celebrating ‘Christmas’ or, as many believe, the day that Jesus Christ was born. This is a wonderful example of the way a falsehood can become accepted ‘truth’ simply through repetition.
Firstly, there is no evidence whatsoever that ‘Christ’ was born on our December 25th (and outside the who-wrote-them? Gospels precious little support for a man called Jesus existing at all). Secondly, the origins of the festival of ‘Christmas’ have nothing whatsoever to do with Christ or Christianity.
They go way back into the ancient world thousands of years before the Christian religion, to Babylon and elsewhere. When the Church of Babylon relocated to Rome to become the Roman Church, which founded bricks-and-mortar Christianity, all the myths, beliefs and rituals of Babylon were simply renamed. In Babylon, for example, the ‘Father God’ was Nimrod, the virgin-born-son was Tammuz (a reincarnation of Nimrod, they said, so ‘Father and Son were one’), and the virgin mother was Queen Semiramis or ‘Ishtar’, who was said to have been impregnated by the rays of the sun (Nimrod). In Rome, Nimrod became the Biblical ‘Father God’; Tammuz became Jesus; and Queen Semiramis/Ishtar became Mother Mary. December 25th itself was celebrated as ‘Natalis invictis solis’, which means ‘the birthday of the unconquered Sun’.
The winter solstice was celebrated in Babylon as the birthday of Tammuz (also Dumuzi), the god of vegetation. It was said that Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. Friends and family would exchange gifts as they do with Christmas. In Egypt, Horus, the son of the virgin mother, Isis, the Egyptian Semiramis or ‘Queen of Heaven’, was born 'about the time of the winter solstice’. The Christian ‘Yule-day’ comes from Babylon with the Chaldee name, 'yule', meaning 'infant' or 'little child'. December 25th was known as 'Yule-day,' or the 'Child's-day,' in the Pagan world and the night that preceded it was known as 'Mother-night’. The wassailing bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in the 'drunken festival' of Babylon and the candles, lit by some on Christmas Eve, were used in the same way on the eve of the festival of the Babylonian god.
The mid-winter festival of Babylon became known in Rome as Saturnalia, which began in the week leading up to the winter solstice. It was a time for much food and drink and ‘having fun’. Around the same period there was also Juvenalia, a feast honouring the children of Rome, while others celebrated the ‘birth’ of the mythical sun god called Mithra on our December 25th. The Mithra myth was remarkably like the stories and symbols attributed to the later ‘Jesus’, who was also given the ‘sun god’ birthday of December 25th. This was because it fell shortly after the day the sun was said to ‘die’, the winter solstice when the sun reaches the lowest point of its power in the northern hemisphere. December 25th is date when the sun was said to have been ‘born’ or ‘born again’ to begin its journey to the peak of its power at the summer solstice. Alexander Hislop writes in The Two Babylons:
‘And first, as to the festival in honour of the birth of Christ, or Christmas. How comes it that that festival was connected with the 25th of December? There is not a word in the Scriptures about the precise day of His birth, or the time of the year when He was born. What is recorded there, implies that at what time soever His birth took place, it could not have been on the 25th of December. At the time that the angel announced His birth to the shepherds of Bethlehem, they were feeding their flocks by night in the open fields. Now, no doubt, the climate of Palestine is not so severe as the climate of this country; but even there, though the heat of the day be considerable, the cold of the night, from December to February, is very piercing, and it was not the custom for the shepherds of Judea to watch their flocks in the open fields later than about the end of October. It is in the l! ast degree incredible, then, that the birth of Christ could have taken place at the end of December. There is great unanimity among commentators on this point …
… Indeed, it is admitted by the most learned and candid writers of all parties that the day of our Lord's birth cannot be determined, and that within the Christian Church no such festival as Christmas was ever heard of until the third century, and that not till the fourth century was far advanced did it gain much observance.’
It was then that the ‘birthday’ of Jesus became a Christian holiday – the same day as the sun gods (of which he is another symbol). It was known as the Feast of the Nativity and spread to Egypt by 432, to England by the end of the sixth century and to Scandinavia two hundred years later. As James George Frazier writes in The Golden Bough: ‘The largest pagan religious cult which fostered the celebration of December 25 as a holiday throughout the Roman and Greek worlds was the pagan sun worship -- Mithraism.’ He adds: ‘This winter festival was called “the Nativity” -- the “nativity of the sun”.’ The History Channel website says:
‘By holding Christmas at the same time as traditional winter solstice festivals, church leaders increased the chances that Christmas would be popularly embraced, but gave up the ability to dictate how it was celebrated. By the Middle Ages, Christianity had, for the most part, replaced pagan religion. On Christmas, believers attended church, then celebrated raucously in a drunken, carnival-like atmosphere similar to today's Mardi Gras. Each year, a beggar or student would be crowned the "lord of misrule" and eager celebrants played the part of his subjects. The poor would go to the houses of the rich and demand their best food and drink. If owners failed to comply, their visitors would most likely terrorize them with mischief. Christmas became the time of year when the upper classes could repay their real or imagined "debt" to society by entertaining lessfort! unate citizens.
This is basically what happened in Rome with Saturnalia. The two festivals were one and the same and the symbols of the ancient Pagan mid-winter festivals are still with us today under the guise of the Christian ‘Christmas’.
The Christmas Tree
This was common in Pagan Egypt and Pagan Rome. In Egypt they used the palm-tree and Rome it was the fir. The mother of Adonis, the sun-god, was said to have been changed into a tree to give birth to her divine son. After Nimrod's untimely death, Queen Semiramis established a Messiah doctrine which was adopted subsequently by many Pagan religions. She claimed that a full-grown evergreen tree sprang overnight from a dead tree stump, which symbolised the springing forth unto new life of the dead Nimrod. On each anniversary of his birth, she claimed, Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts upon it. December 25th was the birthday of Nimrod. In the Ancient Mysteries the tree and the Yule log symbolized the violent death and resurrection of Nimrod. The log stripped of his branches represented Nimrod cut off in the midst of his power and glory, but there then sprung from it a young tree of an entirely different! kind, which represented Nimrod coming to life again. This was the ‘Christmas’ or Nimrod Tree.
Alexander Hislop also says of the tree/yule log symbolism:
‘Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis invicti [Nati-vity] solis, 'The birthday of the unconquered Sun.' Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus -- the slain god come to life again.’
Santa Claus
Santa (anagram of Satan) is the ‘all-knowing god’ who knows everything that children do and think. This figure is connected with Hertha, the German version of Isis, the ‘virgin’ wife of Osiris (Egypt’s Nimrod) and mother of Horus (Egypt’s Tammuz/Jesus). Santa's sleigh is a representation of the Babylonian chariot pulling the sun god through the sky. This was originally pulled by winged reptilians. Eventually stags, venerated in the Babylonian Mysteries, replaced the winged griffins and went on to become the reindeer and sleigh.
Mistletoe and Holly
Witches and pagans regarded the red holly as a symbol of the menstrual blood of the queen of heaven, Queen Semiramis, also known as Diana. In The Two Babylons, Alexander Hislop says of kissing under the mistletoe:
‘That mistletoe bough in the Druidic superstition, derived from Babylon, was a representation of their Messiah, 'the Man the branch.' [Nimrod]. The mistletoe was regarded as a divine branch, a branch that came from heaven and grew upon a tree that sprang out of the earth. Thus, by the engrafting of the celestial branch into the earthly tree, heaven and earth, which sin had severed, were joined together.’
Two hundred years before the alleged ‘birth of Christ’, the Druids used mistletoe to celebrate the coming of winter. The early church banned the use of mistletoe in Christmas celebrations because of its pagan origins. Instead, church fathers suggested the use of holly as an appropriate substitute - when Holly also has Pagan ritual origins.
Some Christians do understand that ‘Christ’mas is actually ‘Nimrod’mas. A few years ago the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Wesley Carr, tried to ban the Christmas trees from the Abbey because they were Pagan symbols. The idea was quietly dropped when he was told that the trees were given to the Abbey each year by the Queen. As always with the Christian Church, they talk about following ‘Jesus’ and &lsqu! o;God’, but then submit their beliefs to the hierarchy of the State rather than stand up for their principles.
‘Christmas’ is but one example of how the beliefs, rituals, symbols and society structure of Babylon has been imposed upon the planet to create the ‘Global Babylon’ we are seeing today.
Happy Holidaze!@$
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Sun, December 24, 2006 - 11:47 PM
did you actually WRITE ALL of that yo self? damn! that's long! I copied to read laters... I'm sleepy now!
thanks for all tha kewl info: ) |
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Mon, December 25, 2006 - 4:02 PM
"The Truth is Out There"
This year, I have the belief that Jesus was/IS a Jeruselem Artichoke.
Just go where the thought takes you. The Truth Rings Clearer than any Bell. Watching those National Geographic, and History Channel Documentaries on the Life and Times Jesus, or any History on the Biblical Era helps to clear up any misconceptions We seem to have about the Past. With our out of comprehensible Illustrated Symbolism, it often gets confusing to know exactly what We are painting as our " Nativity Scene". I'm open to learning and accepting All truths, as long as the lesson or message always leads back to Love. I love the ' World Peace' concept, Can We all agree on that part of the Celebration. Happy Kwanzaa! |
