Origins of Christmas
The actual birthday of Jesus was forgotten by the early Christian movement. in those days, various groups celebrated his birth on JAN-6, APR-21 and MAY-1. By the 4th century, the church selected the approximate time of the winter solstice as the date to recognize Jesus' birth. They picked up this date from Pagan sources. As luck would have it, the autumn equinox might have been a more accurate choice.
The winter solstice occurs about DEC-21 each year. It is the day of the year when the night is longest and the daytime shortest. Using the crude instruments available, ancient astronomers were able to detect by DEC-25 of each year that the daytime had become noticeably longer. This date was chosen, and remains, the traditional date for followers of many different Pagan religions to celebrate the rebirth of the sun. Following the solstice, each succeeding day has slightly more sunlight than the previous day. It was seen as a promise that warmth would return once more to the earth. Numerous pre-Christian Pagan religions honored their gods' birth or rebirth on or about that day.
The Babylonians celebrated their "Victory of the Sun-God" Festival on DEC-25. Saturnalia (the Festival of Saturn) was celebrated from DEC-17 to 23 in the Roman Empire. The Roman Emperor Aurelian blended Saturnalia with a number of birth celebrations of savior Gods from other religions, into a single holy day: DEC-25. After much argument, the developing Christian church adopted this date as the birthday of their savior, Jesus. The people of the Roman Empire were accustomed to celebrating the birth of a God on that day. So, it was easy for the church to divert people's attention to Jesus' birth.
Numerous pre-Christian Pagan religions honored their gods' birth or rebirth during the winter solstice. Some examples are:
Roman Pagan Religion: Attis was a son of the virgin Nana. His birth was celebrated on DEC-25. He was sacrificed as an adult in order to bring salvation to mankind. He died about MAR-25, after being crucified on a tree, and descended for three days into the underworld. On Sunday, he arose, "as the solar deity for the new season." 5 His followers tied an image of Attis to a tree on "Black Friday," and carried him in a procession to the temple. His body was symbolically eaten by his followers in the form of bread. Worship of Attis began in Rome circa 200 BCE.
Greek Pagan Religion: Dionysus is another savior-god whose birth was observed on DEC-25. He was worshipped throughout much of the Middle East as well. He had a center of worship in Jerusalem in the 1st century BCE. Some ancient coins have been found in Gaza with Dionysus on one side and JHWH (Jehovah) on the other. In later years, his flesh and blood were symbolically eaten in the form of bread and wine. He was viewed as the son of Zeus, the Father God.
Egyptian Pagan Religion: Osiris is a savior-god who had been worshipped as far back as Neolithic times. "He was called Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God of Gods...the Resurrection and the Life, the Good shepherd...the god who 'made men and women be born again'" 5 Three wise men announced his birth. His followers ate cakes of wheat which symbolized his body. Many sayings associated with Osiris were taken over into the Bible. This included: 23rd Psalm: an appeal to Osiris as the good Shepherd to lead believers through the valley of the shadow of death and to green pastures and still waters
Lord's Prayer: "O amen, who art in heaven..."
Many parables attributed to Jesus.
Worship of Osiris, and celebration of his DEC-25 birth, were established throughout the Roman Empire by the end of the 1st century BCE.
Persian Pagan Religion: Mithra was a Persian savior. Worship of Mithra became common throughout the Roman Empire, particularly among the Roman civil service and military. Mithraism was a competitor of Christianity until the 4th century. Their god was believed to have been born on DEC-25, circa 500 BCE. His birth was witnessed by shepherds and by gift-carrying Magi. This was celebrated as the "Dies Natalis Solic Invite," The "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun." Some followers believed that he was born of a virgin. During his life, he performed many miracles, cured many illnesses, and cast out devils. He celebrated a Last Supper with his 12 disciples. He ascended to heaven at the time of the spring equinox, about March 21.
Easter
Modern-day Easter is a blending of two traditions: one Judeo-Christian and the other Pagan. Both Christians and Pagans have death and resurrection themes on or after the Spring Equinox. Both Neopagans and Christians continue to celebrate religious rituals in the present day. Wiccans and other Neopagans hold their celebrations on the day or eve of the equinox. Christians wait until after the next full moon.
The Venerable Bede, (672-735 CE.) a Christian scholar, first asserted in his book De Ratione Temporum that Easter was named after Eostre (a.k.a. Eastre). She was the Great Mother Goddess of the Saxon people in Northern Europe. Similarly the Teutonic dawn goddess of fertility was known variously as Ostare, Ostara, Ostern, Eostra, Eostre, Eostur, Eastra, Eastur, Austron and Ausos." Her name was derived from the ancient word for spring: "eastre."
Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Around 200 B.C.E., mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult, centered on Vatican hill. Cybele was the Phrygian fertility goddess. Associated with the Cybele cult was worship of her lover, Attis (similar to the older demigods Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus). Attis was the god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The spring festival March 22 to 25, began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection.
Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation." Many religious historians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Ancient Christians had an alternate explanation: they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity.
Saint Valentines day
Valentine is related to Cupid, Eros, Juno Februata, Pan, Priapus, etc.
Valentine's Day is linked to the ancient Roman Lupercalia feast.
The ancient Christian Church had a policy of replacing Pagan gods and goddesses with Christian saints. Sometimes these saints actually existed. In other cases, the story of a Roman god or goddess was cleaned up and Christianized. Some of the Pagan elements were minimized or entirely deleted. A biography was created so that they would appear to have been real human beings. St. Valentine appears to have been one of these.
Halloween
The Celts coalesced as a society circa 800 BCE. They were located in what is now the United Kingdom, much of Western Europe and an isolated enclave in what is now Turkey. They held a major celebration near the end of our month of October, which they called called "Samhain", a festival to recognize the end of summer. The story that "Samhain" was a Celtic God of the Dead is a myth. However, it has been repeated so often by conservative Christian and secular sources that it has taken on a life of its own.
The Celts believed that the veil between this world and the next was thinnest at this time of year. Friends and relatives who had died would often return, with their souls inhabiting an animal - often a black cat. Black cats have remained a symbol of Halloween down to the present time.
In celebration of the recently completed harvest, Celts would give offerings of food to the Gods. They often went from door to door to collect food to donate to their deities. Also, young Celts would ask the townspeople for kindling and wood, and take it to top of the hill for the Samhain bonfire. These are two of the possible origins of present day "trick or treating."
Samhain was a fire festival. Sacred bonfires were lit on the tops of hills in honor of the Gods. The townspeople would take an ember from the bonfire to their home and re-light the fire in their family hearth. The ember would usually be carried in a holder - often a turnip or gourd. They felt nervous about walking home in the dark; they were afraid of evil spirits. So they dressed up in costumes and carved scary faces in their ember holders. They hoped that the spirits would be frightened and not bother them. Pumpkins are now the objects of choice to carve faces into.
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The following article about why white people suck contains some ridiculously bad Junk science. Albinism does not change a persons race. A black albino is still considered as a black person only with differing skin pigmentation. It's 5th grade science. Yeesh! Scientist do tend to believe that all human life originated in Africa however the whole Albino aspect is just not very well thought out...
What I can never figure out is how they always say Jesus was black. Since he was from the middle east wouldnt it seem logical that he would be middle eastern in appearance? I always figured he would kinda look like Sayid (naveen andrews) from the ABC show Lost...
anyways here it is.. The "truth" about the white devils!!!
The truth about Honkeys ( copied and pasted from a black islamic website. It has not been altered. Original website is Zulu nation dot com)
Q: Were whites "made" by Yacub through selective breeding?
Paul Gurthrie's astounding Making of the Whiteman, assembles startling
historical evidence which verifies much of Elijah Muhammad's
controversial teachings on the origin of white people. In Message to the
Black Man in America, according to Elijah Muhammad, founder of the Nation
of Islam, white people were created from Africans about 6000 years ago by
Yacub, a Black god-like scientist. Using a selective breeding process
called "grafting," Yacub created whites as a "race of devils" to rule
earth for a limited period. (see page 28) Interestingly, the ancient
Egyptians recorded the Tamahu, which means created white people. Egyptian
writings also refer to whites as Typhonians or People of Seth, both
meaning "the devils." After these "white devils" were first released
into the Black community of the Near East 6000 years ago, they caused
sever strife, thus the Africans rounded them up, stripped them of
everything and exiled them to the caves and hills of the Caucasus
Mountains. This explains the sudden appearance of white people in this
region. To prevent their escaping Africans installed a series of guarded
walls blocking all exits along that area from one sea to the other! -
thus "roping" them off (hence the word Europe). These walls have been
witnessed and recorded by many European writers, including Pliny. Thus,
totally cut off from civilization, the whites degenerated into
uncivilized, nomadic savages. They remained this way for 2000 years
until 'Allah mercifully sent an Egyptian priest named Musa or Moses to
civilize them.' This explains the otherwise unknown reason why suddenly
about 2000 B.C., vast hordes of these white barbarians left the Caucasus
region and stormed all the (Black) centers of civilizations throughout
Mesopatamia, the Near East, Africa and India, destroying and usurping
them. Thus, the whiteman's arrival signaled destruction for all these
civilizations and the beginning of the whiteman's rise to power.
Why do whites seek to hide their origins?
Dr. Cress Welsing theorizes that whites (as the albino offspring of Black
Africans) migrated or were chased northward from Africa into Europe. She
states: "Historically, the white race has sought to hide its genetic
orgins in Africa amongst Blacks, just as it has sought to deny the origins
of the white civilization, from he culture of Black in Africa, seeking
instead to proclaim an origin amongst the Greeks. Historically, whites
also have sought to degrade Africa and everything Black. By so doing,
whites can avoid confronting the true meaning of skin whiteness as a
mutation and genetic deficiency state from the Black norm - the 'hue-man'
norm'... Deep within the unconscious psyche of the white collective is
an awareness; of there origin amongst Blacks, that Blacks were their
parents and that they (whites) were the defective offspring's of Blacks."
Black Facts and beleifs:
*People containing high levels of Melanin (mainly Blacks) will always
show a positive test for the use of marijuana! The chemical species found
in the urine which indicates someone's use of marijuana is also found in
the urine of Blacks!
Melanin gives Black people superior physical, mental & spiritual ability.
Most whites have calcified pineal glands which thwarts Melatonin
production, thereby limiting their moral capacity.
Drug abuse by Blacks is more likely to occur
because Melanin causes Blacks to become addicted faster and stay addicted
longer from theses drugs which are deliberately placed in Black
communities.
The martial arts originated in AFRICA, not Asia!
The first people of India were Africans! The word India itself means
Black. Yoga & other so-called Eastern teachings originated in Africa!
Buddha and Krishna were both black!
African technology built the pyramids in Mexico! Africans also ruled
all of South & Central America 100 years before Christ was born.
The tenets of the U.S. Constitution originated from Native Americans!
The Founding Fathers copied the democratic ideals of the U.S.
Constitutional government from he highly developed political system of
the Iroquois League of Nations!
Beethoven was Black. So were five U.S. presidents!.
(Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Warren Harding, Andrew Jackson & Abraham Lincoln)
Whites have done to "Original Christianity" what they've done to true
history!
Like HIS-story, the white man's Christianity is False Christianity! The
Original Christianity of the Original Christians and Original Biblical
Books has been greatly changed, distorted, censored and reconstructed by
whites into a False Christianity which serves as a "weapon" and the
primary pillar of global white supremacy.
* The Original Christians Church was also African (Ethiopian). Its
original African founders and early saints were often martyred when this
church was usurped by the whites who replaced it with their counterfeit
Roman Catholic Church.
* Jesus "lost" years were deliberately concealed by Roman churchmen,
along with most of the deeper, esoteric teachings of Original
Christianity which include reincarnation & karma.
Jesus in fact, was a "Black nationalist freedom
fighter.. whose goals were to free the Black people of that day from the
oppressive ... white Roman power structure and to build a Black nation."
