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.