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Originally posted by Rasobasi420
I just meant the old school gods were probably aliens, blown out of proportion.
From my cursory research, it seems that the simpliest answer is that when Constantine converted, he converted from Mithraism. I wouldn't be surprised if Christmas was simply carried over. Certainly, the Catholic church has used pre-existing customs.
Originally posted by Mizar
THe day the sun goes back for its northern jump is not on December 25th. Its actually on december 21st the Winter solstice.
Originally posted by Mizar
Well everything is based on astronomy in time. Saying SUNday is the worship fo the sungod is silly then that means that the "moonth" or month the 30 days of the moons cycle are all atruibted to teh worship of the moon, and so is MOONday or monday, and what about Tuesday? spanisih MARTES day of MARS the god of war! and look! miércoles "wensday" is mercury! thursday Jueves for Jupiter, friday for viernes for venus, and saturday for saturn. hmmm and I know I combined spanish and english but all are based off roman launage with origins in Latin. This is a commonly known thing that the days of the week and every measurment is based off of astronomy.
THe day the sun goes back for its northern jump is not on December 25th. Its actually on december 21st the Winter solstice.
And in all actuality december 25th was chosen for christmas as it is the "SEASON OF LIGHT" Christ is the "LIGHT OF THE WORLD" to "COME DOWN TO DARKNESS" and the roman festival of "SATURNILINA" took place in the same time which was a feast of light. Not to mention that the jewish feast of chunaka was there also. The date of christmas is irrelvent. IT all about the meaning people do not attend christmas mass to worship some sun god.
Originally posted by Sun Matrix
From my cursory research, it seems that the simpliest answer is that when Constantine converted, he converted from Mithraism. I wouldn't be surprised if Christmas was simply carried over. Certainly, the Catholic church has used pre-existing customs.
Constantine never really converted. If you can't stop the truth by killing the believers, just attempt to take control of the movement. And so it happened. Instead of worshipping the Son of God on the Sabbath, the sun god is substituted on SUNday. This by Constantine, a priest in the worship of the sun.
Originally posted by Sun Matrix
I guess I missed the part where it shows Jesus was born on this day. What paragraph is that in???????????????????????? Maybe you have another link???????
Originally posted by queenannie38
Here you go: users.aristotle.net...
That was interesting. This is similiar, to what I was noting, but I've never associated the Festivals to the "Occurances" in this case the Conceptions of Mary and Elizabeth.
I also did not know John was 6 Months older though. I thought he was only three, for some reason or another. Live and Learn!
Ciao
Shane