It is said, the prominent figures that Santa is a mix between, are Saint Nick/Nickel/Nickolas and Chemosh – a pagan idol God of prosperity.
Santa Clause – a character dear to children, is a mysterious one a mix between various evils as found in the historical texts (as no Christian text supports it). Because we do know, Jesus – was not born at this time. Look closely at the celebrations, foods, decorations and beliefs, does anything remind you of Jesus? Not really. Though, according to historical texts, there are many more given roots of the festival, watered in the same urn. This was how Saturnalia became Christmas – one of your favourite holidays. Since, Saturnalia had nothing to do with Christianity, to make it okay, December 25 th was named as the birth of Jesus (peace be upon him) or Christmas. In the row, they brought in saturnalia as a largely celebrated festival it is today – Christmas. So how come do we celebrate 25 th of December as his birth? Let us take help of history for the same.Ĭhristian leaders, in the 4 th century CE, succeeded in converting the pagan masses into Christianity by promising them that they could celebrate saturnalia the way they used to. With average intellect and logic power, we do know from the Christian as well as Islamic texts that Jesus (peace be upon him)/ Isa (AS) was born in a warm weather, clearing the spilled ink of doubt that nowhere could we find he was born in winter. We get to know the most of brutalities, callous acts, rapes, tortures and murder stories that came out as a ‘festival’ during Saturnalia, conclusion of which was observed on 25 th of December. Lucian, an ancient Greek writer, historian, poet, satirist, in a dialogue of his entitled ‘Saturnalia’ depicts and describes the festival and what it enfolded. Selecting a ‘victim’ from each Roman community was a thing of common conduct during the period, which they forced to indulge in all horned sides of sadistic acts. Also, it is believed, the prime Roman authorities chose an enemy of the people whom they represented as ‘Lord of misrule’, all but as a ‘festival’. The period brought with it rules which spoke up to break rules – Roman courts remained closed and law dictated ‘no penalty’ for any crime, from property damage to murders, from brutality and inhumane behaviour to destruction, as found in historical texts. Saturnalia- a festival popular in ancient Rome was observed to give honour to their deity ‘Saturn’, whom Romans acknowledged with Greek God – Cronus.Ī week stretching from December 17 th to December the 25 th, Saturnalia could be identified with downright lawlessness and havoc round the streets. THE STORY OF SATURNALIA AND THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS What if I tell you-Christmas, has no definite roots with Christianity, and no branches to Jesus of course? I apologise in advance for having to prick your balloon of Christmas adore, I too got that burst years back. However, now I do know certain things I wish I had known before (not that those are bad memories).
And that, I definitely got 10 times more excited with Christmas round the corner than Ami (my Christian friend). As a child, I never knew what Christmas had special bond with my Christian friends, I tried getting the best gifts from Santa and I had a thing for Santa, maybe that I missed my grandfather whom I never saw. I remember, for good, in my ones unit age, I studied in a purely, entirely Christian-population school, back in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. With Christmas coming and leaving us with mouth still packed of yummy trifles, candy canes, Christmas puddings, eggnog, fruitcake, mashed potatoes, butter tarts, and…(Well, those are my personal favourites, you could name yours), a new bond, that there is a day, when amidst those high-end fights, wars and scuffles we are in, we come as ‘A’ human race. Black Santa- is what a new trend is helping little or more towards making the racists suffer in their own spun web. And I cannot not mention, Racism-DIES (not that racists stop doing what they do-racism). Not personally, but that’s what this whole world does. Christmas- a festival when globe denies its differentiating patterns and comes as one plain blanket of togetherness, as all wait for the wishes on their lists to come true. A mark to say- winter is finally here in its genuine stature and that a new year is about to commence. Christmas-the time, you and me, the whole globe is dipped with white and red combinations, sometimes green too.
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