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Re: THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS
Posted by Jeff (Guest) jeff@attoz.com - Thursday, December 29 2005, 2:28:46 (CET)
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>This celebration carried into Western cultures, starting with the Romans, who called it Saturnalia. Saturnalia means the sun is at the farthest point from the planet Saturn. Later on, as migrating Assyrians were moving from Mesopotamia to other destinations, one of the Assyrian groups known as the Celtic Hittites moved to Europe and settled in what we know today as United Kingdom. They took these traditions with them and spread this celebration throughout Europe. The Celtic Hittites became known later as the Celts who were nature worshippers and revered many of the Assyrian traditions, such as the Tree of Life, which later became known as the Christmas Tree. They also carried the worship and celebration of Istarte, (Ishtar) and Tammuz with them.

*** No SHIT! Maggie, ever since I heard Irish music...from the first moment that I heard it... I have felt that their music resembled ours. There's something about the beat, the rythmn, the liveliness and energy in their music and something about their language that draws me to it. This is very interesting... (the entire piece was interesting, not just the part about Celts)



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