Christian festivals, Christmas and New Year's Eve Written by Rainer: rainer.lehrer@yahoo.com Learn languages (via Skype): Rainer: + 36 20 549 52 97 or + 36 20 334 79 74

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Christian festivals, Christmas and New Year's Eve Most Christian festivals come from the Old Testament and are therefore actually Jewish. So also the seven days of the week, because according to the Bible God created the world in seven days and rested on the last. The seventh was the day of the Lord and of course that could no longer be the "Sabbath" (today Saturday) in the Christian worldview. Christmas and New Year's Eve, but especially the Christmas tree form a special category here. These have pagan origin. Christmas is actually the beginning of the Saturnalia, this Roman festival that lasted seven days, during which the slaves of the ancient empire were free and could even scold their masters or owners. The end of this large-scale entertainment was New Year's Eve. Probably you can only really enjoy life as a pagan, life is simply too serious for a Christian. "Life is a pagan joy!" The Christmas tree, on the other hand, comes from Germanic mythology. Here it was considered a symbol of fertility and was taken up again, as it could not be totally prohibited, in the 16th and 17th centuries and incorporated into the Christian process of events. Back to list!

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