by Bifrost
At the Yule zest, nearby is yet state about the "real" meaning of
Christmas. Christians claim the a short time ago meaning of the holiday is the sanctimonious one inferior from their dense mythology. Occasion pagans and Jews sometimes object to to use the word "Christmas" because of its sanctimonious connotations.
Truly, the word itself has strong pagan birth. The cool meaning would be a upset to utmost modern Christians (whereas routinely fast Christians thought its meaning decisively.)
CHRIST: The word Christ is a Greek kind of the Hebrew- Aramaic "messias"
or "meshiach," which meant "anointed one." A messiah was, fairly, a king.
Sovereign Herod in the Christian New Testimonial was by definition a "Christ." So was the high priest. The common sense why "king of the Jews" was supposedly used to blueprint Jesus is that he called himself the "anointed one," which meant "king."
The Greek word is inferior from the word "chrism" or "ointment." A Christ was someone or everything covered with ointment, and the word was that is used to blueprint individual stiff statues of gods with oiled phalluses. ("Thou anointest my bubble with oil" had reasonably a human being meaning to the Greeks!)
Such as the Greek word "christos" begins with a chi (X) and because the chi- cross was the overall symbol for the sun, the celebrity Christ was typically viable to sun-deities, such as Mithras. In fact, for the ahead of schedule 300 days of the
"Christian era," the leading religion of Rome was Mithraism, whose reserve name was "Christianity" or "religion of the ointment-covered one." (It's spicy that "St." Augustine wrote that the priests of Mithras worshipped the enormously God as he!)
The word Christ, therefore, is bluntly an old Greek word for Mithras, the Persian sun-god.
-MAS. The "-mas" in Christmas refers, of course, to the Cram -- but not to the Roman Catholic crowd. The "crowd" referred to is the ritual meal of the Mithraists, who supposed the interior and blood of a slaughtered bull actually became the service and blood of their god Mithras. (Does that convincing familiar?)
This ritual food was called the "mazd" or "god." (The Zoroastrian deity Ahura Mazda equitably meant "guru god.") The Mithraic priest would take part in up the infrequent interior and say: "Opinion the God!" In Latin, this would be translated to:
"Es missa est," the words used by today's Roman Catholic priest!
What the sun was "reborn" each blind date at the winter solstice (declare December
25), the ritual meal would be utmost important at that time of blind date, which would bring about been called "Christmas" -- the "ritual local holiday of the god with an anointed phallus."
And in the past the chi-cross correspondingly stood for the sun, the celebrity "X-mas" would bring about meant only this minute the enormously thing.
Calculated about that once time someone needs you a merry Christmas!
