December 25 Pagan Holiday Sun
The shortest day of the year.
December 25 pagan holiday sun. 25th december was the celebration of the pegan roman sun god saturn the god of agriculture history convincingly shows that december 25 was popularized as the date for christmas not because christ was born on that day but because it was already popular in pagan religious celebrations as the birthday of the sun. It is the birth of the god reflected upon the change of seasons. Thomas talley has shown that although the emperor aurelian s dedication of a temple to the sun god in the campus martius probably took place on the birthday of the invincible sun on december 25 the cult of the sun in pagan rome ironically did not celebrate the winter solstice nor any of the other quarter tense days as one might expect. The date is also significant because it has always marked the winter solstice.
They called it the nativity of the sun mithras the sun god was supposed to have been born at this time but so were osiris horus tammuz hercules bacchus adonis jupiter all the pagan messiahs. However the original december 25th birth date was retained for all pagan sun gods by the roman saturnalia and sol invictus traditions. Which were now called the twelve days of christ mass. In pre christian pagan belief december 25 marked what was known as the winter solstice.
25th of december a christian or pagan holiday. By december 1582 ad the shortest day of the year had shifted 12 days on the roman julian calendar to wednesday december 12 1582. Dec 25 is a pagan holiday of yule but christians didn t want. There is no conclusive proof for roman sun worship on december 25 but there is evidence for the birth of jesus on.
December 25th was always a pagan holiday called saturnalia for literally thousands of years before christians claimed ownership of december 25th it was a pagan holiday celebrating the birth of the sun god sol invictus which concluded their annual winter festival of saturnalia. Sol is the ancient latin word for sun and stice literally means standing still. The sol invictus unconquered sun god holiday was not widely celebrated in the roman empire before the date of the birth of christ was already established in much of christianity. Pagan sun gods are born on december 25th a compromise and deception of christendom december 25 a festival was celebrated among the heathen at that precise time of the year in honour of the birth of the son of the babylonian queen of heaven the sun god nimrod the same festival was adopted.
The most common pagan holiday in that season was the saturnalia festival but it was celebrated on december 17th not december 25th.