Saturnalia

[AV1611VET]

Just out of curiosity, did anyone remember Saturnalia this year; or, as I predicted, was it eclipsed by Christmas?

 

[pgp_protector]

Yes there were people that remembered & celebrated it.

Saturnalia Chester 2012 - YouTube

 

[JustMeSee]

Just as Christmas eclipses Easter.

 

[AV1611VET]

Just as Christmas eclipses Easter.

... which eclipses Ishtar.

 

[Strathos]

What is your point?

 

[AV1611VET]

What is your point?

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[TLK Valentine]

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I sincerely hope you're not confusing popularity with holiness.

What am I saying? How could you not?

 

[jayem]

If the pious, God-fearing Puritans of colonial Massachusetts still had their way, celebrating Christmas would be illegal.

When Christmas Was Banned in Boston

 

[AV1611VET]

If the pious, God-fearing Puritans of colonial Massachusetts still had their way, celebrating Christmas would be illegal.http://masstraveljournal.com/places/boston-cambridge/when-christmas-was-banned-boston

The Puritans can take a hike ... we favor the Pilgrims.

 

[Papias]

I saw mostly Saturnalia being celebrated. Lots of evergreen stuff (a Roman Saturnalia custom), and lights (a Roman Saturnalia custom), and presents (a Roman Saturnalia custom).

I did see a couple places celebrating Christmas, with a Nativity scene. I also saw a place celebrating Good Friday by putting up a lighted cross. maybe they are from the Southern Hemisphere (even that does't work.)?

Papias

 

[TLK Valentine]

The Puritans can take a hike ... we favor the Pilgrims.

Pilgrims, Pilgrims.... ah, you mean those Puritans who decided that Holland was a little too rough-and-tumble for them, and thought they'd try their luck in the New World?

 

[AV1611VET]

Pilgrims, Pilgrims.... ah, you mean those Puritans who decided that Holland was a little too rough-and-tumble for them, and thought they'd try their luck in the New World?

I take it you would have stayed behind?

 

[TLK Valentine]

I take it you would have stayed behind?

Not being a Puritan, I never would've been in Holland in the first place.

You do at least pretend to study the history you expound on, don't you, AV?

 

[Delphiki]

Most of what I saw was people celebrating Saturnalia and the solstice mixed in with a bunch of capitalist consumerism and people just calling it Christmas.

 

[Eudaimonist]

Just out of curiosity, did anyone remember Saturnalia this year; or, as I predicted, was it eclipsed by Christmas?

I remembered it. I do not celebrate it, however.


eudaimonia,

Mark

 

[JustMeSee]

... which eclipses Ishtar.

Avoided point noted.

'Christmas' celebration begins in November and extends into to New Years for many Christians and non-Christians alike.

Poor Good Friday and Easter Sunday are far less popular by Christians. I just find this to be rather interesting.

I did not celebrate Saturnalia, but I know of people who did.

 

[AV1611VET]

'Christmas' celebration begins in November and extends into to New Years for many Christians and non-Christians alike.

Unfortunately Thanksgiving gets walked on as well in the process; but that's because big love-of-money corporations want to get this Christmas spending going ASAP.

 

[Tatian]

Look... most moderately educated people are aware Christmas is a cinnamon roll of Christian and pagan traditions. I don't know if it bothers pagans, but it certainly doesn't bother me. I have no problem with the Christian custom of Christmas having a heavy amount of pagan sources.

 

[JustMeSee]

Unfortunately Thanksgiving gets walked on as well in the process; but that's because big love-of-money corporations want to get this Christmas spending going ASAP.

Where would the corporations be without the mass consumers?

 

[AV1611VET]

I have no problem with the Christian custom of Christmas having a heavy amount of pagan sources.

I wasn't aware pagans had a monopoly on customs.