Christmas, a church festival commemorative of the birth of Christ, has just been held by a great number of Christians. Do you know anything as to its origin?
What you call Christmas was not held by the early followers of Jesus.
It was not until a later period that the Christian Church introduced that, with many other corruptions, into their system.
They found the people wedded to the observance of this festival, which had been held for ages in many nations of the East, and they very cleverly gave it a new name and made it a great Christian festival.
It had its origin amongst the Sabeans who, when they observed the aspect of the heavens at the winter solstice spoke of it as the birth of a new or virgin sun and hence the joyous festival at that time of the year.
The proper date of the birth of Jesus was about the middle of your summer and about our harvest time.
Was Jesus born at that time of the year?
The beginning of our year would be about two months before yours.
―Hafed, Prince of Persia
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