SATURNALIA
Saturnalia was a major Roman festival held from December 17–23 to honor Saturn (Cronus), the god associated with time, harvest, dissolution and change.
during this time slaves were served by their masters, wore their masters clothes and could speak freely without any punishment. (this was done for temporary release of revolutionary energy to prevent actual rebellion)
On December 25th, following Saturnalia, the birth of the invincible sun was celebrated, marking the solstice's turning point, this was known as Feast of the Unconquered Sun (Sol Invictus)
On the final day, small terracotta or wax figurines (sigillaria) were exchanged. These were often fertility symbols or satirical caricatures of authority figures. here sigillaria means Gift-giving.
and lastly a commoner or slave was chosen by lot as the "Lord of Misrule" (Saturnalicius Princeps). He presided over the festivities, giving absurd orders. At the festival's end, his symbolic reign and sometimes his life was terminated, reinforcing the return to order.
THE REBRANDING TO CHRISTMAS
Early Church Fathers (4th century) deliberately chose December 25th to overwrite Sol Invictus and Saturnalia. Pope Julius I formally declared it Christ's birthdate in 350 AD. The message: "The true 'sun of righteousness' (Malachi 4:2) is now Jesus."
connecting more dots:
Saturnalia (Chaos & Inversion): The old solar year dies, social order is ritually dissolved.
Sol Invictus (Sun's Rebirth): The new sun is born on Dec 25th.
Christ Mass (Sacrifice & Sending): The Christian overlay: The "sun" (Sol) is replaced by the "Son" (Christ). The ritual no longer celebrates a celestial body, but the incarnation and future sacrifice of a divine being. The "Mass" ties his birth directly to his death, the manger foreshadows the cross.
IN TRUTH
They took a pagan festival of cyclical, impersonal nature worship (the sun returns) and transformed it into a linear, historical, and sacrificial narrative (God sent his only Son to die once for all). This shifted human consciousness from cyclical time to salvation history, making the population dependent on the Church's narrative for their sense of time and purpose.
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Anyways, December 25 is the day that the Savior was conceived in the womb.
Always best to get one’s information from the source, The Word in the language in which it was first received.
“study to shew thyself approved.” and then one wouldn’t have any questions 💫
“and it grieved our Father Love in His Mind(heart) that He had made humankind flesh.”
He knows that it is hard, Temporarily! but it is the fastest and most efficient way to get Paradise restored.
So what? I wonder who the Romans lifted the lore from? And were those people? And on down to the beginning.
This isn’t a conspiracy. This is common knowledge. They did it as a way to ease non Christian’s into the lifestyle.
Well, yeah. It’s pretty well established that Christianity appropriated all sorts of local pagan traditions to try and ease pagans into the religion.
[Christianity, at least Catholicism, can be very adaptive.](https://youtu.be/-pdW7sbEh4I?si=zaHvHJ2z7EbBSKgX)
That’s cool; but Jesus Christ is God.
So naturally you attempt to weave time around the framework of reality known as Jesus Christ.
Fun fact about the Roman Empire – just 20 years after abolishing fortune telling due to Christianity, Rome was sacked by Barbarians.
Not the sharpest move in the history of Empire management.