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With Christmas approaching I'll tell you a little about this important date, and how it became the most important date in the world. ✨🎄🌙🌟🎁
it's all started in Rome, 2nd century, December 25th, The population is celebrating, in honor of the birth of the one who came to bring wisdom and solidarity to men. In the meantime, families appreciate the gifts exchanged days before and recover from a long binge.
Christmas story begins at least 7,000 years before the birth of Jesus. It is as old as civilization and has a very practical motive: to celebrate the winter solstice, the longest night of the year in the northern hemisphere, which takes place in late December. From dawn onwards, the sun stays longer and longer in the sky until the height of summer. It is the turning point of darkness to light: the "rebirth" of the sun.
with the spread of it around the world
Mitra then won an exclusive celebration: the Festival of the Undefeated Sun. This event has now closed another solstice binge. It was Saturnalia, which lasted a week and served to honor Saturn, lord of agriculture. “The starting point of this celebration was the sacrifices to the god. Meanwhile, inside the house, everyone congratulated, ate and exchanged gifts, ”say historians Mary Beard and John North in the book Religions of Rome.
And in the meantime, a dwarven religion that didn't care about such things grew in Rome: Christianity.
The most important religious dates for Jesus' early followers had only to do with his martyrdom: Good Friday (crucifixion) and Easter (resurrection). The custom, after all, was to remember only the death of important characters.
the faithful of Rome wanted to find something to meet the solstice celebrations. And putting on a Christian celebration at this time would come in handy - especially for church leaders, who would find it easier to gather new believers. Then, in 221 AD, Christian historian Sextus Julius Africanus had the balcony: he nailed the birthday of Jesus on December 25, the birth of Mithras. The Church accepted the proposal, and from the 4th century, when Christianity became the official religion of the Empire, the Festival of the Unbeaten Sun began to change its honor.
It is not possible to say for sure what the first Christian Christmass were like, but it is a fact that habits such as gift-giving and sumptuous meals remained. And the thing didn't stop there. Throughout the Middle Ages, as missionaries spread Christianity throughout Europe, customs of other peoples were entering the Christmas tradition. The one that left the strongest legacy was Yule, the feast the Nordics held in honor of the solstice. The supper ham, the colorful decoration of the houses and the Christmas tree come from there. Only that.
Another northern contribution was the idea of a supernatural being who gives gifts to little children during the Yule. In some Scandinavian traditions, it was (and still is) a gnome who fulfills this role. But this figure would soon gain more human traits.
there comes the famous Santa Claus that everyone knows. But I will not talk about him, but about the krampus figure as important as. ✨🌙🌟 🍀🍂
particularly it's one of the cool stories I think is cool ^^
merry krampus 🍂🍃🍀🦌🎅🎁 Wishlist
