![]() ![]() It is around that same solstice time, which is when the sun has, we've had the shortest days and now we're about to have the longer days. Now, this doesn't really look very much like Christmas, does it? Not so much. ![]() It was considered a time of breaking the rules, of breaking like a riotous type of behavior. Modern American Christmas has kept one of these, which is drunkenness.Īnd then, of course, rape and sexual immorality were rampant. And supposedly, some accounts say, "Oh, they had freedom to do whatever they wanted, but you got to realize that as soon as this feast is over, you're going to be paying for whatever it was you did during the feast." And so I doubt they really had quite that much freedom.īut it was meant to be this fine and goofy thing, a reversal of roles. But the owners would mock and sometimes ridicule the slaves. So the slaves would still have to cook the food, but then the owners would serve them. Although it was more, actually, it almost seems to me as I read about it, like it was mocking to the slaves. It involved a reversal of rules where they would have freedom for the slaves and the owners would serve them. Saturnalia also involved human sacrifice. I mean, there's obviously nothing wrong with that. It was very peaceful and very nice.īut I would not look at them singing and say, "Ha! Saturnalia." Singing in public is obviously pagan. ![]() I mean, there were whole families gathered together, and Jewish settlers were doing a protest. If you go to a picketing, say in Israel, we went to Israel and we were there for some of the settlers were doing a protest. I mean, if you go to a modern day rally, you'll see singing. I don't think that necessarily singing in public. Not really accustomed that we've entirely adopted. That is, they would go house to house, or at least walking on the street while singing. They did do something very similar to what people sometimes rarely do nowadays on Christmas. Eventually, it got to be a week long at the longest and then it ended on the 23rd. Slowly over time, the Romans extended that celebration because they enjoyed it. So if we were actually putting Christmas on Saturnalia, why did we pick two days after the festival ended? The 17th was the day. The Roman celebration of Saturnalia was actually December 17th through the 23rd. Happy Saturnalia! That's what you're really celebrating. Is December 25th pagan, as many people suggest? Is it the Roman celebration of Saturnalia? Here's the meme for you. ![]()
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