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Bigmack

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Sun Dec-24-06 10:41 AM
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7. Nobody even mentions Mithra...

... these days! We should go back to the "old time religion".

Here's another piece on Xmas origins.

THE ORIGIN OF AMERICAN CHRISTMAS MYTH AND CUSTOMS

B. K. Swartz, Jr.

Fundamentally Christmas celebration is based on the intertwining of two ethnic patterns, Roman transition rites and Germano-Celtic Yule (jiuleis) rites-feasting and mortuary practice. First known use of the word Christes-Maess was in England, 1038. The English titled Feast Days with Mass Days. No Saint's day listed for December 25th. Abbreviation Xmas; X is Greek Chi, the first letters of Christmas...

http://www.bsu.edu/web/01bkswartz/xmaspub.html

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