![]() ![]() ![]() This practice is known as Weeping for Tammuz by Pagans but called Lent by Catholics.Īll Saints' Day was followed by All-Souls' Day, November 2, unless that was a Sunday then it was November 3, this was another Catholic adaptation of Pagan festivals for the dead. Because Tammuz was killed when he was forty years old, Pagans fast one day for each of the years that he lived leading into Easter. Tammuz went pig hunting and was gored to death by a wild boar and that is why Pagans eat ham on Easter. The blood-red colored Easter eggs would later hatch on December 25th, the same day her son Tammuz the reincarnate sun-god would be born.Įaster (Ishtar) married her son Tammuz who was by legend the reincarnate Sun-God. ![]() To honor this event, Pagan sun-worshippers would go out early in the morning and face to the east to watch their Sun-God arise over the horizon before having a mass (sacrifice) in which the Priest of Easter would sacrifice human infants and take the eggs of Easter and die them in the blood of the sacrificed infants. Legend has it that she came out of heaven in a giant egg, landing in the Euphrates river at sunrise on the first Sunday after the vernal equinox, busted out, and turned a bird into an egg laying rabbit. Easter is the bare breasted pagan fertility goddess of the east. Mother's Day always falls on the second Sun-day of May, and like so many other holidays rooted in pagan sun-worship including Father's Day which always falls on the third Sun-day of June, usually fall on the day named in honor of their most powerful god - The Sun.Įaster or Ishtar, also known by her biblical name Semiramis and later called the "Queen of Heaven" was the widow of Nimrod and mother of Tammuz. To show appreciation for their mothers, they often brought gifts or a "mothering cake" (Jeremiah 7:18) and over time, it began to coincide with the celebration of the Mother Church. The fourth Sunday in Lent (Weeping for Tammuz), a 40-day fasting period before Easter, became known as Mothering Sunday. Similarly, evidence of a three-day Roman festival in Mid-March called Hilaria, to honor the Roman goddess Magna Mater, or Great Mother, dates back to 250 BCE.Īs Christianity spread throughout Europe, the celebration of the "Mother Church" replaced the pagan tradition of honoring mythological goddesses. The ancient Greeks paid tribute to the powerful goddess Rhea, the wife of Cronus, known as the Mother of the Gods (Queen of Heaven). were worshipped during the springtime with religious festivals. In both cultures, mother goddesses (Queen of Heaven). Mother's Day dates back to ancient cultures in Greece and Rome. The original Saint Valentine was Nimrod, on this day in February, Semiramis, the mother of Tammuz, was said to have been purified and to have appeared for the first time in public with her son as the original "mother and child." As far back as 496, Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia on February 15th to St. It was not until the reign of Pope Gelasius that the holiday became a "Christian" custom. Pagans in Rome celebrated the evening of February 14th and February 15th as an idolatrous festival in honor of Lupercus "the hunter of wolves". ![]() This began at the Council of Nicea in 325CE. He achieved this by taking ancient Wisdom and spirituality from multiple civilizations and beliefs and then re-writing history and re-naming pagan feasts with Christian names. He wanted to unite his empire, both Christian and pagan together with a Universal (Catholic) religion. Constantine was a Pagan follower of Mithra(s) who had what he thought was a "Christian experience" that led him to victory in battle. Christian Holidays are ancient Pagan feasts that were ushered in by the Roman Catholic Church during the rule of Emperor Constantine. ![]()
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