YULETIDE AND THE WINTER SOLSTICE 2014

The Yule log was traditionally cut from an oak tree. This wood was sacred to the Thunder God, Thor, who is also known as ‘Thunor. This deity gives his name to Thursday (Thor’s Day). The Yule log, after being licked by fire, was believed to protect a dwelling from lightening strike. 

Mistletoe was seen as an all-healing plant and sacred to the Norse deity Balder. This plant was used by druidic priests and native healers to promote fertility. It is still used today in a magical sense, i.e. the tradition of kissing under the mistletoe! 

Holly is of course a customary part of Yuletide and like the mistletoe it has traditional connections. It is sacred to Saturn, God of the Dying Year and was hung outside houses by the Romans to avert psychic attack, lightening and perceived evils of any kind. 

Ivy is an evergreen climbing plant symbolising immortality. It has been perceived as a representation of eternal life in numerous Pagan faith systems including Druidism, the spiritual ethos of the Celtic peoples. 

Today’s Father Christmas image is based upon the Holly King figure of Odin, the Norse ‘Father God’ who rode through the night’s sky not on a reindeer but a fast white charger. The aspect of his red and white costume (and flying through the sky) is possibly linked to the use of the brightly coloured hallucinogenic mushroom, Fly Agaric by Norse Shamans and warriors before battle. 

Xmas trees originate from ancient rites of the great, Phrygian Mother Goddess Cybele. Her worship was brought to Rome in 204BC. A Pine tree was felled and placed within her sacred temple then decorated with lavish adornments of beautiful flowers and coloured wools, etc. I believe that it is quite likely that the tree custom travelled with the Legions into Germanic localities and amalgamated with native tradition there at some later date. We should possibly give credit for the tree’s modern day usage in celebration to Drusus the Elder who embarked upon a military campaign for Roman domination against the Germanic and Raetian tribes in 15 BC.

Any seriously unbiased investigation into the historical side of Christmas traditions clearly reveals that Christianity has no right whatsoever to claim an exclusive monopoly of the Sun/Resurrection god situation. The Christian re-born Sun God Myth is but the latest in a long line of deity modifications.

SO WHY DID THE CHURCH HIJACK ORIGINAL PAGAN MIDWINTER SOLSTICE CELEBRATIONS AND REPLACE THEM WITH XMAS? WHY THE 25TH DECEMBER?

Let’s examine a few solid facts, rather than continue to propagate the same old fundamentalist lies about midwinter celebrations. 

Numerous crucified sun gods have their traditional birthday on December 25th. This is because the ancients acknowledged that the sun makes a yearly descent southward in anticipation of December 21^st or 22^nd , the Winter Solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and next starts to move northward again. During this period our wise ancient forbears confirmed that God’s sun had died for three days and was ‘born again’ on December 25th. The ancients realised that they needed the sun to come back every day and that they would be in huge trouble if the sun continued to move southward and did not stop and rescind its direction. Consequently, innumerable diverse cultures celebrated their ‘Sun of God’s’ anniversary on December 25th.

Fundamentalists within the early Christian Church latched onto all this and swiftly adopted the heathen, earth-orientated midwinter celebrations to equate with their newly fashioned variation of the Sun God, Jesus Christ, known as the Son of God! Millions failed to see the clever fundamentalist ruse herein and the die was cast for increased Church – inspired mind control!

SUN GOD DECEPTION, HOW THE CHURCH CLEVERLY MANIPULATED ‘YOUR’ MINDSET

The Christian Christmas tradition stands as a prime example of scheming, theocratical mind control of the masses. The following are major qualities of the omnipresent Sun God myth, which can be related to contemporary Christian recycling of much older Pagan folklore.

Consider the following:

The sun dies for three days on December 22^nd, the Winter Solstice; when it stops its travels southward, to be born again (resurrected) on December 25th, when it continues its progress north.

In various areas, the calendar originally began in the constellation of Virgo and the sun would consequently be perceived as being ‘Born of a virgin.’

The sun is of course the, ‘Light of the World.’

The sun, ‘Cometh on clouds and every eye shall see him.’

The sun rising in the morning is the, ‘Saviour of mankind.’

The sun wears a corona, crown of thorns or ‘Circle of light’ (halo).

The sun is seen to, ‘Walk on water.’

The sun’s follower’s helpers (disciples) are the 12 months and the 12 signs of the zodiac or constellations, through which the sun has to pass.

The sun at 12 noon is in the house/temple of the ‘Most High,’ consequently ‘He’ begins ‘his Father’s work’ at the age of 12.

The sun enters each sign of the zodiac at 30°; hence, the ‘Sun of God’ begins his ministry at the age of 30.

The sun is hung on a cross (crucified) which represents its passing through the equinoxes, the spring/vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is then reborn.

It does not take a mastermind to distinguish the enormous similarities with the above when compared to the misleading Jesus myth. The Church fathers simply used previous heathen legend/tradition to fashion their inventive, patriarchal dogma. Yes – it’s all been done before! The early Church made easy work of importing its newly-formed Christ god template to the trusting Pagan masses and quite effortlessly substituted the wholesome solar/agricultural calendar for a new synthetic one based on its theocratical, monotheistic prospectus. There is of course nothing new under the sun!

In view of the above, can YOU see how you have been furtively manipulated, by astute fundamentalists of old; into believing an exceptionally clever, religiously-based lie?  If you ‘cannot’ then you have been successfully indoctrinated (like millions of others) into the restrictive religious doctrine that I have freely highlighted above! 

WHAT ABOUT THE TERM ‘XMAS’ – IS IT A SHORTENED VERSION OF THE WORD ‘CHRISTMAS’?  

Well in fact the answer is – No! December, under the earlier Roman calendar, used to be, the 10^th month of the year: the 1^st month (March) being sacred to the god Mars.  

The Roman numeral for 10 is of course  ‘X’, therefore Xmas rather than being a short form of a modern Christian festival can be seen as being the Pagan  ‘Mass of the 10th  month’; A joyful time when the Saturnalia was celebrated with great happiness. The genuine ‘REASON FOR THE SEASON’ has been carefully veiled by deceitful fundamentalist mind controllers with hidden religious agendas over the centuries. Billions of individuals seeking spiritual deliverance, through the generations, have fallen for this gigantic religious tactic without as much as a question. This  most recent recycled Christian dogmatisation of the wholesome Midwinter Solstice celebration  is nothing but a manmade ecclesiastical perversion of a much older organic truth that links humanity to the planet, the universe (on a natural level) and beyond. It is time for our amazing species to wake up from this church-enforced medieval slumber, and smell the coffee!

THE OLDER GOD-FORMS RELATED TO XMAS

Sol, Attis, Adonis, Mithras; these gods and many others were celebrated during seasonal solar cycles long before the clever ‘Jesus fable’ was ever manufactured by sectarian, monotheistic interest groups with an axe to ground against the social structure of the day!

Who will contest the Sun God title next? We would do well to recall the old adage: ‘History repeats itself.’ Yuletide/Midwinter Solstice is a crucial element of our indigenous, Pagan spiritual heritage. It conjoins us with the amazing seasonal energies of this planet of which we are all a vital part.

I genuinely wish all readers a very happy Yuletide, Midwinter joy, and profuse Saturnalian blessings.