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Holidays Explained
HOLIDAYS

Valentine’s Day, February 14th: originally the date the ancient Romans honored Juno, the queen of the Roman Gods and Goddesses; the Feast of Lupercalia began the next day (Feb 15th). On the eve of this festival (the night of Feb 14th) young boys would draw pieces of goat skins (februa) from containers, upon which the name of a young girl was written. These two youngsters would then be "partners" in erotic games at the feasts and parties throughout the festival of Lupercalia. In the year 496 AD, Pope Gelasius changed the date from February 15th to the 14th and called it St. Valentine’s Day. It seems as if there were three St. Valentines all related to the date February 14th. It is possible that the little that was known about these three St. Valentines was merged into one story to represent a complete picture.

Easter, first Sunday after full moon after Vernal Equinox: (from Eostre, or Ostara)Noah’s son, Nimrod, the builder of the tower of Babel, detested his father’s God because Noah had ostracized him. He ended up becoming the leader of an cult dedicated to blaspheming the God of Noah. After he died, his wife bore a son and named him Tammuz, claimed that her son was the reincarnation of her dead husband Nimrod, set him up to continue as the head of this cult and eventually married him. This cult is the predecessor of all pagan or luciferian cults of the world. The wife/mother of Tammuz devised an elaborate story centering on the Vernal Equinox, giving rabbits the ability to lay eggs, and feasting on boar.

May Day, May 1st: Celts celebrated May 1st as Beltane, day of fire (bel was Celtic God of the sun). These celebrations were outlawed by the Catholic Church, although peasants and villagers continued the celebrations well into the 1700’s. In Medieval times Mayday was a raucous, fun time when villagers elected a queen of may (representing the Goddess Diana). Young single men and women danced around the maypole holding onto ribbons hoping to get entwined with a potential new love. In 1517, the English Working Class Staged a huge revolt through the guilds. King Henry was undercutting wages, lengthening hours and breaking the guilds. Due to a rumor that spread that the commonality would arise to counter the rich, merchants, industrialists, nobility and landowners on Mayday, a curfew was declared. After two men who hadn't heard of the curfew were arrested, 700 workers stormed the jail and freed the prisoner.

Columbus Day, second Monday in October: I'm still not sure why we celebrate Columbus Day. By today's standards, he's a terrorist. After Arawak men and women greeted Columbus and his men with food water and gifts, Columbus wrote, "They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of sugar cane. They would make fine servants. With 50 men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." When some Native Americans decided they didn't want to be slaves, Columbus had them run through with swords to bleed to death. In 8 years, Columbus's men murdered more than 100,000 Native Americans. Columbus stands for slavery, treachery, murder, rape, and terror, basically everything unamerican.

Thanksgiving, fourth Thursday in November: The pilgrims came to America to escape religious persecution, but began persecuting others once they reached soil. They turned to Romans 13:2 to justify force against the Native Americans: "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall recieive to themselves damnation." As settlers wanted more and more land, Englishmen began raiding more and more Native American Settlements. Ordinary Englishmen did not like the warfare, it was the Puritan elite who wanted it, for land, gold and power. These Pilgrims robbed Wampanoag graves for the food buried with the dead. Whenever the Pilgrims realized they were being watched, they shot at the Wampanoags and scalped them (scalping had been unknown to Native Americans in New England and introduced by the English). These are the puritans that the Native Americans saved, and whom we celebrate in the holiday, Thanksgiving.

Halloween, October 31st: Related to the old Celtic New Year, celebrated on November 1st. Witches and other evil spirits were believed to roam the earth on this evening, playing tricks on human beings to mark the season of diminishing sunlight. The Celts sought to ward off these spirits with offerings of food and drink. The Celts also built bonfires at sacred hilltop sites and performed rituals, often involving human and animal sacrifices, to honor Druid deities

Christmas, December 25th: In Scandanavia, the Norse celebrated Yule from December 21st (the winter solstice) through January. Fathers and Sons would bring home large logs and celebrate until the log burnt out. Also around the time of the Winter Solstice, the Romans celebrated the birthday of Mithra, the sun god, on December 25th. In the Early years of Christianity, Easter was the main holiday and Jesus’ birth was not celebrated. It was only in the fourth century that Pope Julius I chose December 25 to celebrate the event. It was initially called Feast of the Nativity. In the Middle Ages, Christians attended church, then celebrated raucously in a drunken carnival-like atmosphere. It was tradition that the poor and lower class ran wild, demanded fine food and drink from the rich, and terrorized them if they failed to comply. In the US, after the American Revolution, English customs fell out of favor, including Christmas; Christmas wasn’t declared a federal holiday until June 26th, 1870.

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