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Why is Christmas on December 25th? || Pagan Coincidence or Christian Strategy?

Why is Christmas celebrated on December 25th? While most people associate the holiday with the birth of Jesus, the choice of this date has a far more complex and fascinating history. In this video, we explore the origins of Christmas and uncover the theories behind its timing. We’ll delve into when Christmas was first celebrated, what those early celebrations looked like, and the possible connections to ancient Roman festivals like Saturnalia and Sol Invictus. Were early Christians attempting to replace these pagan holidays, or was December 25th chosen for its symbolic alignment with the winter solstice and themes of light and renewal? Support me on Patreon:   / occulys   Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/occulys Donate via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted... Visit my Website: https://www.occulys.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Recommended Reading: ▶The Pagan Origins of Christian Holidays - Elisha J. Israel https://amzn.to/3XKspO7 ▶Saturnalia, Volume I: Books 1–2 - Macrobius, transl. Robert A. Kaster https://amzn.to/4hvYSif ▶The Origins of Christmas - Joseph F. Kelly https://amzn.to/3FrtT9U As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used in the video: 'Jingle Bells (Calm)' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 'Path Through the Mountains' by Scott Buckley (www.scottbuckley.com.au) 'We Wish you a Merry Christmas' Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 'Deep Relaxation' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) 'Concentration' by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎓 Other Sources:   / why-is-christmas-on-december-25   https://www.catholic.com/magazine/onl... https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog... https://www.history.com/topics/ancien... https://www.historicmysteries.com/myt... https://www.westernjournal.com/fact-c... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:02 When Did Christmas Begin? 4:51 Saturnalia 7:27 Festival of Sol Invictus 11:32 Was December 25th a Strategic Choice? 12:28 Theological Calculations and the Solstice 15:07 Conclusion 15:50 Please like and subscribe! Thank you! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Many of the images are hand colored by Adam McLean and taken from the alchemy web site www.alchemywebsite.com (Copyright Adam McLean 1997-2011). Thank you Adam McLean for your beautiful work. DISCLAIMER: All materials in these videos are used for entertainment purposes and fall within the guidelines of fair use. No copyright infringement is intended. If you are, or represent the copyright owner of materials used in this video, and have an issue with the use of said material, please email us at the address below. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🤝 Contact Information: occulys@gmail.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #christmas #ancientreligion #AncientHistory #history #mythology #spirituality #alchemy