symbols wrote:I'm very curious to see how you will approach Egyptian religions and traditions.
There is something that orginated from their religion.This is about commemorating the birth of sun god.
I don't mean the "son of God" (inverted comas). This has an interesting origin.
The primitive man in Meditarenian region..neighbours to the Egyptians.
He could see the sun burning back and forth in the southern hemisphere, receding from them.
And day by day, it started getting colder and colder, 20th of Dec, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th it is getting colder and colder
And on 25th the devil trying to swallow the sun (in the mind of the primitive man).
Actually, these are happening astronomically..but the primitive man following the sun and could feel the change in temperature and they say now the sins of darkness, the devil has been overcome by the sun.
The sun is rebornit is born again, the sun coming back on its own on 25th, 26th, 27th etc getting warmer and warmer.
So 25th of Dec was the turn of the tide, in the heaven (i.e. skies).
So the sun is being born, The Sun, not the "son of God".
So this is how the early church adopted an holiday.
This was the pagan holidaythe pagans creates an holiday.
And the Christians saw that these people are acommodative around that day, so they adopted that day.
And they started celebrating Christmas.