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Friday, December 25, 2009

trivias 3 :Saturnalia

Saturnalia is name after the roman god Saturn, Who is the counterpart of the Greek God Cronus,which is the god of agriculture.


saturnalia
"time of merrymaking," 1591, from L. Saturnalia, ancient Roman festival of Saturn (held in December), a time of merrymaking for all, from neut. pl. of adj. Saturnalis "pertaining to Saturn," from Saturnus (see Saturn). The extended sense of "period of unrestrained revelry" is first attested 1782.




Christmas Look up Christmas at Dictionary.com
late O.E. Cristes mæsse, from Christ (but retaining the original vowel sound) + mass. Written as one word from mid-14c. Father Christmas first attested in a carol attributed to Richard Smart, Rector of Plymtree (Devon) from 1435-77. Christmas tree first attested 1835 in Amer.Eng., from Ger. Weihnachtsbaum. Christmas cards first designed 1843, popular by 1860s.


In the Bible, there is no christmass or mass of Christ.Mass means the sacrifice of Christ, according to the Catholic Encyclopedia,the victim is the Host from the lastin Hostia. 

Concerning his birth no one  really knows his exact birth

Our Lord has already resurrected and we rejoice at his victory

Celebrating over and over the death of Christ is an insult to him seeing you are more useful to God alive than dead. But its nice to nice to visit family and friends and nice also receiving gifts,nothing wrong with it.In truth christmas come from or it is the witches sabbat called Yule

yule Look up yule at Dictionary.com
O.E. geol, geola "Christmas Day, Christmastide," from O.N. jol (pl.), a heathen feast, later taken over by Christianity, of unknown origin. The O.E. (Anglian) cognate giuli was the Anglo-Saxons' name for a two-month midwinter season corresponding to Roman December and January, a time of important feasts but not itself a festival. After conversion to Christianity it narrowed to mean "the 12-day feast of the Nativity" (which began Dec. 25), but was replaced by Christmas by 11c., except in the northeast (areas of Danish settlement), where it remained the usual word. Revived 19c. by writers to mean "the Christmas of 'Merrie England.' " First direct reference to the Yule log is 17c. O.N. jol seems to have been borrowed in O.Fr. as jolif, hence Mod.Fr. joli "pretty, nice," originally "festive" (see jolly).

With all the ceremonies and stage plays running loose these days,the bible always warn us to stay vigilant and test everything.1Jn4:1;2Th2:15

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