The Ancient Source of Christmas
By Dr. Arthur Frederick Ide
Approximately four thousand years ago, ancient Egyptians from all walks of life throughout the kingdom of the sun joyfully celebrated the rebirth of the sun in the twelfth month of each year. An ambitious people devoted to the holiest of numbers, twelve, the Egyptians (like other advanced, civilized people) reckoned most “happenings” in groups of twelve. To this end, the Egyptians set the length of the festival at 12 days, to reflect the 12 divisions in their sun calendar.
To commemorate and glorify the rebirth of the sun god (Ra, known as the Son of God), the Egyptian people used every possible expression of the existence of rebirth. They decorated homes, temples, palaces and tombs—especially the pyramids—with greenery that was common among them. Among the favorite foliage were palms with 12 shoots. These twelve shoots, known as “apostles” were the symbol of the completed year, as a palm was thought to put forth a shoot each month. Sun-worshipping Egyptians had the idea, and having their sun god ride a “beast” (usually an ass with a newborn walking beside it) beneath waving palm branches, bearing on his sacred head a laurel crown. Later this Son of God would be found sleeping on a tree, resting and praying in a garden with a young boy to indicate the perpetual youthfulness of their savior sun god, before he would be whipped to restore fertility to the earth with his blood and then be hung on a post to be worshipped until nightfall. Afterwards he would be carried to a tomb where he would rest until three days later to proclaim that the gods of Spring had found favor on the people of Egypt and planting could begin. Only after this ceremony was he allowed to ascend to his father god in the sky—a ritual that required smoke, incense and prayers.
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The Saturnalia, of course, celebrated Saturn—the fire god (represented, as expected, by fire—an element sacred to all gods and thus the source of heat and cooking—a source that the god Prometheus would steal to take to mortal kind), while his son would become in time represented by the sun when he took his place to the right hand of the Father (and ultimately replace him).
Saturn’s primary duties, for which he was worshipped universally, was being the god of sowing (planting) because heat from the sun was required to allow for planting and growth of crops. He was also worshipped in this dead-of-winter festival so that he would come back (he was the “sun”) and warm the earth again so that spring planting could occur. The planet Saturn was later named after him because, among all of the planets, with its rings and bright red color, it best represented the god of fire.
Virtually every civilization has a fire/sun god. The Egyptians (and sometimes Romans) called him Vulcan. The Greeks named him Kronos, as did the Phoenicians—but they also called him Saturn. The Babylonians called him Tammuz (as Nimrod, resurrected in the person of his son and the two were known as Father and Sacred Son), Molech or Baal (as did the Druids).
These were all simply the various names for Nimrod. Nimrod was considered the father of all the Babylonian gods. This horrible practice associated with the worship of the fire god (Nimrod, Saturn, Kronos, Molech and Baal) is the subject of the still-valid The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop, page 231:
Now, this is in exact accordance with the character of the Great Head of the system of fire-worship. Nimrod, as the representative of the devouring fire to which human victims, and especially children, were offered in sacrifice, was regarded as the great child-devourer…he was, of course, the actual father of all the Babylonian gods; and, therefore, in that character he was afterwards universally regarded. As the Father of the gods, he was, as we have seen, called Kronos; and every one knows that the classical story of Kronos was just this, that, ‘he devoured his sons as soon as they were born.’ (Lempriere, John. Bibliotheca classica: or, A classical dictionary; containing a copious account of the principal proper names mentioned in ancient authors; with the value of coins, weights, and measures, used among the Greeks and Romans; and a chronological table. New York, G. & C. & H. Carvill [etc.] 1833, ‘Saturn.’)…This legend has a further and deeper meaning; but, as applied to Nimrod, or ‘The Horned One,’ it just refers to the fact, that, as the representative of Moloch or Baal, infants were the most acceptable offerings at his altar. We have ample and melancholy evidence on this subject from the records of antiquity. ‘The Phoenicians,’ says Eusebius, ‘every year sacrificed their beloved and only-begotten children to Kronos or Saturn.’
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We find this same reference in both the Torah and the Christian Bible. For example, in Genesis 10:9 we read of Nimrod, “He was a mighty hunter before [in place of, or, antedating] the Lord.” The term “Lord” meant “great leader” or “restorer of fertility” and had no sacrosanct definition. This is not transmogrified until thousands of years later when exclusive communities demanded that their interpretations of deities be the sole religion, but their number was illiterate and ill-mannered, so that this concept had a short life (it did not reappear until 325 CE when the Emperor Constantine called his council of warrior leaders (bishops) to meet at Nicaea, where he would establish his own church, and give it powers to oppress others and control what others thought. Among those who fought this innovation were the Nimordians, who heralded from far older days and were associated with the great culture of Babylon.
The Jewish historian, Josephus, records in Josephus Antiquities important evidence of Nimrod’s role in the post-flood world, reinventing the myth of Nimrod and the entire creation fable: “He also gradually changed the government into tyranny…He [Nimrod] also said he would be revenged on God, if He should have a mind to drown the world again; for that he would build a tower too high for the waters to be able to reach…Now the multitude were very ready to follow the determination of Nimrod, and to esteem it a piece of cowardice to submit to God” (Bk. I, Ch. IV, sec. 2, 3).
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Under many names, mankind’s earliest and perhaps greatest rebel has been worshipped throughout what rival theologies would libel as a “false religion.” Interestingly, ancient Israel repeatedly regressed backward in time into serving the many false gods that Nimrod represented. For example, in Ezekiel 8:13-14 we find the prophet verbally painting a picture of the women of Israel “weeping for Tammuz.” This Tammuz (the god of fire) was considered to be Nimrod and the etymology of the word itself is fascinating. Tam means “to make perfect” and muz “fire.” The meaning is clear in light of what we have already learned.
Another inconvenient truth about the pagan origin of Christmas serendipitously springs from the modern word cannibal. This practice has its roots in a prime function of all priests of Ba’al as well as all other pastoral religions up to the point where the Jesus of the New Testament repeats the words of ancient Egyptian priests when he declared during the supper on his “Last Night”. According to redactions of the ancient records, Jesus is alleged to have said: “Take you all and eat of this bread, for it is my body. Take you all and drink from this cup as it is my blood”. It should be noted that the Hebrew word for priest is Cahn (כֹּהֵן) but prior to refinement it was Qedesha (קדשה) or “dog-priest” being those who engaged in fertility and cannibalistic (sexual) rites who were to serve between the real of history (below) and redemption (above): הכהנים והלוים . From this comes future legends, including the cannibalistic Last Supper that has the words taken from the Egyptian Papyrus of Ani (see my blog on cannibalism, part 2).
