TIS the SEASON.....

I always find it incredible that Christians continue to celebrate Christmas. I know part of the reason is that it is considered a “tradition” and it’s often difficult to break a tradition. However once you truly understand the latent nature of what this holiday represents it seems disingenuous to perpetuate a “tradition” that is in direct opposition to Christian dogma.

The purpose of Christmas in modern times is to make money plain and simple. The people who promote the "Christmas spirit" are businessmen that don’t believe in the holiday. There are retail businesses that make over 70 percent of their projected annual profit during this holiday alone!

We already know that blacks are the largest ethnic consumer group, spending billions on consumer goods, could we, just for a moment… think of what we could accomplish if only a small percentage of what we spend at Christmas was applied to  more useful purposes.

Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th?  Most people assume that it has always been a Christian holiday and that it is a celebration of the birth of Jesus.  But it turns out that Jesus was not born on December 25th.  However, a whole bunch of pagan gods were born on that day.  In fact, pagans celebrated a festival involving a heroic supernatural figure that visits an evergreen tree and leaves gifts on December 25th long before Jesus was ever born. you see, the winter solstice occurs a few days before December 25th each year. The winter solstice is the day of the year when daylight is the shortest. In ancient times, December 25th was the day each year when the day started to become noticeably longer.  Thus it was fitting for the early pagans (sun worshippers) to designate December 25th as the date of the birth or the "rebirth" of the sun.

Before there was a "Santa Claus", there was another supernatural figure that would supposedly visit a tree and leave gifts every December 25th. His name was Nimrod. 

The celebration of December 25th goes all the way back to ancient Babylon. According to ancient Babylonian tradition, the goddess Semiramis claimed that after the death of her son/husband Nimrod (yes she was married to her own son), a full grown evergreen tree sprang up overnight from a dead tree stump(fertility). Semiramis claimed that Nimrod would visit that evergreen tree and leave gifts each year on the anniversary of his birth, which was on December 25th.

This is the true origin of the Christmas tree

From this original fable peddled by Semiramis (the "Queen of Heaven") came the tradition for pagans to go out to the holy "groves" and leave gifts for Nimrod (who later came to be worshipped as "Baal") at an evergreen tree. Does that sound like a "Christian" holiday to you?

In fact, in his classic work "The Two Babylons", Alexander Hislop describes the Babylonian origins of Christmas on page 93...

Long before the fourth century, and long before the Christian era itself, a festival was celebrated among the heathen, at that precise time of the year, in honor of the birth of the son of the Babylonian queen of heaven fairly be presumed that, in order to conciliate the heathen, and to swell the number of the nominal converts to Christianity(a recruitment drive). This tendency on the part of Romans to meet Paganism halfway was very early developed;

So where did Christmas come from?

Well, the truth is that the word "Christmas" is not a word found anywhere in the entire Bible. In fact, the word "Christmas" was not even invented until about a thousand years after Jesus left this earth. The Catholic Encyclopedia even admits this....

"The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038." Christ Mass means Christ Death. When you celebrate Christmas you celebrate his death, not birth. Jesus was not even born on December 25th. The reality is that it would have simply been far too cold for shepherds to be out with their sheep at night in Israel on December 25th.

So how did December 25th come to be celebrated by Christians?

Well, by the time the Roman Empire legalized Christianity in the 4th century, most of the other religions in the empire were celebrating the birth of their gods on December 25th.

Leading up to December 25th in ancient Rome, a festival known as Saturnalia was one of the biggest celebrations of the year.  Saturnalia was a festival during which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of their god Saturn, god of the harvest. This holiday began on the 17th of December and it would last for an entire week until the 23rd of December.

Saturnalia was typically characterized by gift-giving, feasting, singing and lots and lots of debauchery.  The priests of Saturn would carry wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession throughout the pagan Roman temples.

Later on, the Romans also started holding a festival on December 25th called Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, which means "the birthday of the unconquered sun."  Basically it was a way for the empire to consolidate all of the December 25th "sun god" birthdays throughout the empire into one holiday.

In the year 350 A.D., Pope Julius I declared that the birth of Jesus would be celebrated on December 25th. There appears to be little doubt that Pope Julius was trying to make it as painless as possible for pagan Romans to convert to Catholicism.

As we discussed earlier, the celebration of December 25th goes all the way back to Nimrod (who eventually came to be worshipped as Baal).

The following are just some of the pagan gods that had "birthdays" on December 25th....

Mithras

Horus

Attis

Dionysus the son of Zeus

Tammuz

Hercules

Perseus

Helios

Bacchus

Apollo

Jupiter

Sol Invictus - (The "Unconquered Sun")

When the Roman Catholics decided to make December 25th a "Christian holiday" in the fourth century, they simply adopted a long standing pagan holiday and kept most of the same pagan traditions.

I've heard people say, "Lets put Christ back in Christmas". The fact of the matter is that he was never in it from the beginning.

The information in this article was obtained from various sources. Please feel free to substantiate the claims made here yourself.

This should be a time for enjoying the comfort of family and friends, not frivolous spending. Take the time to challenge the things you've been told. Dare to form you own individual opinion of what is true, righteous and what you have been programmed to believe.

Peace

In the BEGINNING...

HABARI GANI, Brothers and Sisters
Welcome, to OUR STORY, before HIS-STORY. The intent of this blog is multi-faceted. The primary purpose is to educate. To disclose facts and circumstances that perhaps were unknown to the reader. A secondary purpose that is just as important is to bring understanding to the reader, to undermine the false assertion that blacks are cursed, inferior, uncivilized, bestial, or any one of the many negative allusions often attributed black people.

Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson once said, “Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration…never saw an elementary tract of painting or sculpture”.

Disgraced President, Richard Nixon was quoted as saying, “The black race, is the only race that never founded a civilization”
Historian, Thomas Hoynbee wrote in his 1934, his-story book " It will be seen that when we classify mankind by color the only primary race that has not made a creative contribution to civilization is the black race".

These are but three examples of erroneous prevailing opinions pertaining to the historical contributions blacks have made to the world.

Before we start let me strongly suggest that the reader investigate the facts presented here for themselves. Don't accept the assertions or opinions of anyone without verifying them for yourself. Only when we educate ourselves will we truly understand the need to remove the shackles of ignorance that bind the knowledge of our true nature. We can break the bonds of servitude, of Eurocentric mental brainwashing, only by obtaining;

 KNOWLEDGE of  SELF,  WISDOM  & UNDERSTANDING

Let’s started at the…BEGINNING

• * The oldest evidence of human existence has been found in AFRICA. Scientists have concluded that the earliest human beings lived about 2 million years ago in eastern Africa.
• * Animal domestication began in Kenya 15,000 years ago.
• *Agricultural sites in Egypt have been carbon dated up to 18,000 years ago
• *Nubia is the homeland of Africa's earliest black culture with a history which can be traced from 3100 B.C. onward, through Nubian monuments and artifacts, as well as written records from Egypt and Rome.
• * The oldest numeration system was found in Zaire with markings found on the Ishango stone, the worlds oldest mathematical artifact dated around 8,000 B.C.
• * African medical textbooks have been found that are over 5,000 years old. Ancient Africans were well versed in medical diagnosis and treatments. The Egyptians understood the bodies dependence on the brain 4,000 years before the Greeks

• * Imhotep, the Prince of Peace, Egyptian inventor of medicine and healing was a real historical multi-genius of ancestral Africa. Hippocrates the so called Greek "Father of Modern Medicine" was a devotee of Imhotep, the Prince of Peace.
• * Many ancient Greeks travelled to Egypt to be educated, including Herodotus and  the Greek philosopher, Plato. One of the Greeks who later enunciated the cultural, religious, and philosophical teachings of the Egyptians was Pythagoras. He was one of the men who introduced the knowledge & wisdom of the Egyptians to the Europeans

• * The ancient Black Egyptians invented paper which made the recording of science and history more practical for library storage. It is estimated that there were over 700,000 books in the libraries of Egypt before Homer "the father of western literature" was even born!
•  * The massive library of Alexandria was first destroyed during Julius Caesar's Alexandrian campaign in 47 B.C., Caesar set fire to ships in the port. The fire spread to the library, destroying most of it's contents

Some of the information contained in this article was obtained from the book;

Black People and Their Place in World History, by Dr. Leroy William Vaughn MD

Were past presidents, historians, and scientists never taught the numerous contributions that black civilizations have gifted to the world, or is there an ongoing conspiracy to keep the truth hidden, especially from those who could benefit from such knowledge the most (us)?

Could it be that Black History is the world's best kept secret or have historians, scientists, and even past presidents denied it's existence to maintain black disenfranchisement?

Decide for yourself!