Was Christmas A Pagan Festival
Firstly the customs of giving presents eating too much and generally having fun comes from the roman festival saturnalia which used to be celebrated around december 17.
Was christmas a pagan festival. But that s not the same of course as saying that christmas has pagan roots as we commonly hear nowadays. Nobody knows what day or month christ was born. Christmas is coming and a lot of neopagans will be celebrating it as yule on the 21 st of december. The pagans celebrated their festival on december 25.
The time of the year and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated prove its origin. That christmas was originally a pagan festival is beyond all doubt. People claim that christmas has now been turned into a christian festival but the problem is that it is mainly not christian. Yule was kept as a festival by germanic peoples before they were ever christians.
The sceptics are correct in pointing out that christmas was an adaptation of the pre existing pagan festival of saturnalia the celebration of the winter equinox. In fact there s much in the new testament narratives that would indicate that it didn t occur during that time of year. The neopagan yule is loosely based on the germanic festival of the same name and i say loosely because we don t have much information about what the original pagan festival was as most of the information we have on germanic paganism comes from christian sources. The romans had saturnalia which was a riotous time for everyone slaves and free to let their hair down and enjoy themselves.
In fact many of the things involved with christmas are pagan or satanic. This was a week long pagan festival of debauchery and lawlessness from 17 25 th of december. Many people see santa as a god. We can thank the romans and celts for most of our modern day christmas traditions.
Christmas actually started as a pagan festival. This was a week long pagan festival of debauchery and lawlessness from 17 25 th of december. In egypt the son of isis the egyptian title for the queen of heaven was born at this very time about the time of the winter solstice. The festival of saturnalia an ancient pagan holiday which honoured the roman god saturn took place every year between the 17th and 24th december.
The sceptics are correct in pointing out that christmas was an adaptation of the pre existing pagan festival of saturnalia the celebration of the winter solstice.