CHRISTMAS means

CHRISTMAS means "anointed depart". CHRISTOS (Greek) means anointed,

MAS (Latin, missa) means depart. It's a fusion word from parts of two languages.

A Scythian monk, Dionysius Exiguus, traveled to Rome Italy in the year 525 CE, and was astounded that the Pagan festival of the birth of the sun, Saturnalia, was being celebrated with great enthusiasm throughout the city. It probably rivaled the Mardi Gras festival (another Pagan celebration rooted in the worship / weeping for Tammuz) seen celebrated in New Orleans. So, to divert this obvious Pagan observance toward a more "clean" reason, he promoted the idea to make it apply to the birth of Yahushua, the Natsari, High Priest, and King of Kings. December 25 was believe to be "natalis sol invictus", the birthday of the sun, at the winter solstice. The Pagans used wreaths to represent the Nativity of the sun, since they were objects depicting the "womb" of the Earth mother, Asherah (Artemis, Ishtar, Eastre, Astoreth, etc., the queen of heaven and consort of BAAL.

Another object in common use was a sexual object seen today as the tree, where the ornaments were testicles, the tree a phallus, and the tinsel representing the "semen of the deity". The star on top represented the heavenly object of worship, and the tree connected them to the Earth. By re-inventing the solar/astral symbols to pertain to the birth of the Mashiach of Israel, Pagans could keep doing what they were familiar with yet changing the meaning of them on the surface. This "fossilization" is against Dt. 12, but Yahuah's Word was not permitted in the hands of the common person.

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(This page is under construction, and will be expanded as time permits)

For more on the history of certain aspects of this holiday, see www.fossilizedcustoms.com/asherah.html

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