Christmas is celebrated around the world on the 25th of December. It has a number of commonalities with several Pagan holidays but as Yule is still being celebrated (at the Winter Solstice, on or about the 21st of December), I don't see that it has been replaced.
ANSWER its not the winter solstice it repalces, they just happen to be around the same time In ancient Babylon, the feast of the Son of Isis (Goddess of Nature) was celebrated on December 25, it was a time of party hard and drinking and basically merriment
Yes, it a pagan tradition.
One will find that the commonly known holiday all around the world, Christmas replaced the pagan Scandinavian holiday JÃ_l. The holiday merged to become "Noel", which originates from the Old French word "noël" or "naël".
Puritans refused to celebrate Christmas because they felt it was pagan in origin.
No he was pagan.
Yes Christmas is pagan, and I'm not just saying that out of opinion. Look into, Lew White "Fossilized Customs". It explains everything. No, Christmas is not a pagan celebration. Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas began in the early areas of Christendom in the 2nd or 3rd Centuries.
No he was pagan and based on a Norse legend.
No he is Norse and comes from a pagan legend.
Christmas comes to us from the middle ages. The Catholic church wanted to replace the pagan celebrations with Christian ones so they used the days that the pagans were all ready using and made them into Christian holidays. December 25th was a pagan holiday of the Winter solace. The word "Christmas" is really Christ Mass, and the people had 3 masses a day on Christmas Day. There were no gifts nor decorated trees. Evergreens were brought in, even by the pagans, but they weren't used as Christmas trees.
Yes, Christmas is a pagan holiday. It was a popular holiday celebrated throughout the Roman Empire. Catholics thought that it felt appropriate to make the December 25 holiday (the birthday of the sun god Sol Invictus) the birthday of Christ Jesus. Though no verse in the Bible specifies the exact birth date of Christ Jesus.
The Pagan Christmas tree is special because the evergreen tree represents Christian winter rites. It was adopted by Europeans and these trees soon were decorated with ornaments as well.
Yes. It was stolen from the Yule Tree decorating tradition of the pagan peoples.
No he was pagan and based on a Norse legend.