Christmas Pagan holidays Exposed!
The origins, myths and traditions of Christmas!
The pagan festival of the invisible sun at the winter solstice is a European tribal tradition celebrated for the last ten thousand years at the shortest day and longest night of the year
Few people realize that the origins of a form of Christmas was pagan & celebrated in Europe long before anyone there had heard of Jesus Christ.
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If you want to get everything Pagan out of Christianity – you’ll have to drop ‘Christ’, too. Annointed ones – Christos – were standard in Mediterranean Pagan religions. They were ritually killed, their spilled blood blessing and fertilizing the earth. They rose again, heck, Tammuz’s followers even had communion with crackers with crosses on them.
I would just like to say to all of you people who have answered this question stating that St Nicholas is the original Santa, well he came after, like most things which the Christians claim as their own, has in fact a Pagan root…
Santa Claus and Xmas are both Pagan originally..
Saint Nicholas’ Day
When the old Gods ruled the world, Odinn the All-father rode the skies of Germania and Scandinavia in winter with a crowd of elves and spirits; those mortals who offered him reverence were rewarded with gifts.. In later years, Odinn’s horse, elves and gifts became the accouterments of a Christian saint named Nicholas..
Nicholas lived in Asia Minor..Because he calmed the storms at sea during his life, he became the patron of sailors; and because he restored to life three murdered youths, he became the patron for boys..But the most famous tale concerning him was that of three maidens whose imppoverished father planned to sell them into slavery.. Nicholas redeemed them with three bags of dowry gold, which he flung through their windows one night and which landed on their shoes, set to warm before the fire..For this deed, he became the patron of maidens, and Frenchwomen prayed to him for husbands..
He also became the patron of pawnbrokers, and his bags of gold are remembered in the three golden balls that are the sign of the trade..
But gift-giving was his most important act..In Germany and Holland, children set out their shoes on the eve of his feast day, filling them with hay and carrots for his white horse, just as provender had been left for Odinn’s horse by their ancestors.. Nicholas, they knew, would ride over the rooftops in the night with his elvish companion Knecht Ruprecht.. Ruprecht carried a switch for use on naughty young ones.. But Nicholas carried baskets of toys and sweets, to be left in the shoes of all good children…