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.