@lalunafaye: Pagan traditions and celebrations preceded the onset of Christianity. Arising spontaneously in the ancient world, holidays and feasts developed in Syria and Egypt, Persia and Mesopotamia, in Gaul and the dark woods of present-day Germany, and in the Roman Empire. The Norse of Scandinavia, the Druids of the United Kingdom, the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, all celebrated holidays throughout the year. Despite the lack of communication all of these celebrations shared something in common. They all followed the sun. Festivals, feasts, and celebrations, centered around the Winter and Summer solstices, appeared in all pagan civilisations centuries before the birth of Jesus of Nazareth, and continued for centuries after. Originally the Christian Church frowned upon these pagan rituals, but when traditions were too difficult to overcome the Church absorbed them, creating the ecclesiastical calendar around their existence. Scholars doubt that Jesus was born in December, even the Biblical account of Shepherds watching over their flocks in the fields – which would not have happened in Winter – make a Winter Birth unlikely. But celebrating Jesus's birth’ during the time of the existing Pagan Celebration of the Solstice was convenient and the Church usurped the holiday. #pagan #hekateanwitch #hailhekate

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