The Real History Of Christmas Pagan
Another pagan festival that had customs absorbed into the christian christmas was the festival of yule.
The real history of christmas pagan. This was a pagan festival celebrated by the germanic people of northern europe. 6 it was held between mid december and. In the bbc two feature film the real face of santa archaeologists used modern forensics and facial reconstruction techniques to get an idea of what st. The christmas tree is considered by some as christianisation of pagan tradition and ritual surrounding the winter solstice which included the use of evergreen boughs and an adaptation of pagan tree worship.
The earliest history of christmas is composed of pagan non christian fertility rites and practices which predate jesus by centuries. Witold skrypczak lonely planet getty images. Christmas christian festival celebrating the birth of jesus the english term christmas mass on christ s day is of fairly recent origin. Yeshua the messiah said to his disciples if you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples.
Though december 25 is the day christians celebrate the birth of jesus christ the date itself and several of the customs we ve come to associate with christmas actually evolved from pagan. According to eighth century biographer æddi stephanus saint boniface 634 709 who was a missionary in germany took an ax to an oak. Just like today this kissing usually occurred at the beginning of any modern saturnalia christmas celebration. The tradition of christmas caroling actually began as the tradition of wassailing.
According to national geographic the remains of the greek bishop who lived in the third and fourth centuries are housed in bari italy when the crypt at the basilica san nicola was repaired in. Nicholas might have actually looked like. The earlier term yule may have derived from the germanic jōl or the anglo saxon geōl which referred to the feast of the winter solstice the corresponding terms in other languages navidad in spanish natale in italian noël in french all. While it is unknown exactly how far back the yule festival goes there is evidence it existed prior to the year 1000 c e.
There is no doubt about it. The truth is in short the real history of christmas has nothing to do with christianity.