The dark backgrounds of Christmas ...😱

akashas (64)in #informationwar • 5 years ago

Jingle bells...Jingle bells...

Peace, harmony and love, please don’t believe any of these words in relation to Christmas, so Mr. David Barnett roughly says this as he dives deeper into the dark side of such beloved festive Christmas custom ...

Fellas, let’s talk about Christmas and let’s think a bit deeper...where does Xmas comes from? What about the history?!?

So there was the little Jesus Baby, then these three old, wise men and how was it again ...? Oh, obediently follow this mysterious star and then we have the true meaning of Christmas. That’s it!?!

But maybe there is the possibility that Christmas is none of what we believe we know and believe!?

After all, this great cultural celebration has its roots in distant pre-Christian times, and many of those traditions that we love and like today have dark and sinister roots and a very different meaning to the meaning of today.
This is important to know, because the frequencies do not change simply because they are presented differently.

First of all, it should be briefly mentioned that it was not until the year 340 AD that the birth of Jesus was on December 25th. It was Pope Julius I who decided this.

Before that, the birth of Jesus had been dated at various other times. Thus, historically, March 29th, January 6th and sometime in June are available.

So it was about 250 years later that Pope Julius I successor, the values of Pope Gregory, gave Saint Augustine the great task of converting the pagan Britons to Christianity.
With the modified date of birth of Christ, which was decided on December 25th, thanks to dear Augustin, there was a little more influence on this population, who already practiced several Midwinter festivals.

Thus, it could also be ensured that this population would accept the new religion.

Because the idea of blindly accepting this kind of Christmas is not what most people tell you or what your father told you.
Previously, there were two significant pre-Christian festivals that also coincided with Christmas. It was the Roman Bacchanalia or Saturnalia and the Yule feast of the Nordic regions.
The celebration called Saturnalia started on December 19th and lasted for several days, almost a week, which seems quite in keeping with those involved in the Christmas tradition.

The slaves were allowed to exchange places with their masters, and for the duration of the festival they were even declared king. The rich distributed gifts to the poor, blahblahblah!

But once again, the background of this festival, because the Roman god Saturn, in whose honor the festivity was held, was not a benevolent, loving figure of Christ or a benevolent, white-bearded Santa Claus, although his party seems so similar to Christmas. Some ancient astrologers considered it a bad sign to be born in the sign of Saturn.

As the god of the harvest, this deity carried a wicked scythe in his hand and even ate his own children.

Of course, hardly many people still celebrate the Saturnalia. However, a few remnants of this ancient tradition are still there, and many may still (unconsciously) have a few things in the apartment today.

The oh so beloved mistletoe. This is a parasitic plant that grows on other trees.
However, these were once accepted as a genuine and fully-formed tree, and this plant is said to have provided the wood from which the cross of Christ was made. There is also a Norse mythology that tells of the god Balder being killed by an arrow from mistletoe.
In many places, the plant is also associated with the ancient Druids of England, whose mythology seems magical to this plant, it is said that they would grow the oak trees with a golden sickle and catch them in a robe before they would touch the ground. If this fails the thistle would lose its special powers. The Druids say they would use this plant medicinally or for ritual purposes.

There are so many legends about each of the symbols that we use at Christmas.
From mistletoe to holly and ivy. An old custom was never to bring the holly into the house before Christmas Eve, otherwise a great misfortune will come.
And how many know that the Christmas decorations should be mined until the 12th night or until 6th January, which is one of the early birthdays of Christ.

But the old English tradition also says that you should not just throw the old tree out of the door or the window, if you do this, then there is a death in the house in front of the door before Christmas Eve ...

Once upon a time ... long gone times before, this was the birthday of a "sun god", a deity who was also born on the 25th of December and has a date which one celebrated annually.

Traditionally, Christmas Eve is traditionally a time of confused and restless spirits walking the earth, something that the old Ebenezer Scrooge only too well tells in Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol."

Alas, if we are already with spirits and supernatural beings on Christmas Eve, what about the fat old man himself?
Santa, Santa, Saint Nick.

Why are we hanging out a guy's stocking?
Well, it is said that St. Nicholas had heard of three sisters. They were forced to spend their lives in prostitution in order to have enough money to eat at all, so he threw three coins into the chimney to help them and it lands in their suspenders ... or in the hearth.

For a long time it was believed that old Santa Claus was a cheerful old man with a white beard, based on the historical St. Nicholas, who dates back to about 350 AD (at the same time that Pope Julius had decided the date of Jesus' birth) After Asia Minor is understandable, and somewhere so in its many ways this was finally mixed with other popular characters ...

A magazine called "Harper's Weekly" published an illustration, it is said that they were the first to depict modern Santa Claus in the 1860s, although he was portrayed in an originally green robe and had connections with the "green man" of a legend who dominated forests and valleys in pagan beliefs.

Rumor has it that even in the streets, Coca-Cola "invented" Santa Claus, the Santa Claus we know and appreciate today, he traded his real green color for the red of Coca-Cola.
Unfortunately, Coca Cola was not the first to show the fat old man in red.
Although the company first aired advertising for Santa Claus in 1931 with a coke and a smile, Santa Claus has been seen in his more familiar red once or twice before.

Of course, Santa Claus also has a dark shadowy side, and this is the Krampus, who for a variety of reasons is Santa's little malicious helper or, in some legends, his ancient enemy. While Santa Claus gives rich children good gifts, Krampus does the opposite. He punishes bad children, especially in the regions of Eastern Europe.
But we still have the Christmas tree, right? There is nothing scary about that.
Hmh, maybe we can bring the ancient and tragic legend of the goddess Cybele and the mortal Attis into this Christmas tree theme ...

Cybele cursed Attis, as the gods did so often because she disliked anything. Therefore, Cybele was dissatisfied and sent Attis crazy. Attis ran completely madly through the mountains. In the end, according to legend, he castrated himself (for reasons known only to him) at the foot of a pine fir ...
Think about it, when you decorate your Nordmann fir very soon ...

Muuuuuuaaaaahaaaaaaa

I wish you all a merry Xmas 🎄