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This is very much like the celebrations, lights and fragrances in use during the Christmas season today. It was also a time of candle burning and offering incense to gods. This was a time of revelry, drinking, debauchery, orgies, and an overall good will towards others. The partiers would wear bright colors during this time, and they would even don caps, called “Pileus”, which were brimless, made of felt, and are very similar to the Santa clause hats we see today. This was a joyous festival to the renewing of life, slaves were treated as equals, even masters, and they were allowed to dine with their masters. The god Saturn, has dualistic and contradictory aspects attributed to him, denoting both a utopian, carefree, and joyous nature, along side uneasy elements of danger and destruction. It was a festival dedicated to the worship of their deity, Saturn. Siglillaria, is also a proper noun, that signifies the last day of the festival, on December 23rd, which was the day of gift giving. The human sacrifices eventually evolved into the giving of pottery or wax figurines called, “sigillaria” to each other, substituting these figurines for the sacrificial victims of the earlier celebrations.

New ideas that became incorporated into the celebration, even included human sacrifices to appease the gods. The holiday festival eventually evolved away from the Roman traditions, to a more Greco-Roman festival after the Roman defeat at Carthage in 217 BC. It was initially only a one day celebration on the 17th. This festival can be dated back to 497 BC when the temple was dedicated to Saturn in the Roman Forum. The “Saturnalia”, is an ancient Roman festival, that is held from December 17-23.

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The resources I’ll be using in this letter, are the Scriptures, Jasher and Enoch from the Apocryphal works, and Alexander Hislop’s book, “The Two Babylon’s”, which you can get for free on my downloads page. If you will bear with me through this study, keeping an open mind, you should come out of it with a clearer understanding of God’s Word, and the origin of many of the traditions in the world today, that truly make void God’s Word. This letter expounds on these aspects, including the origins of the Saturnalia and many other church traditions, as well as giving you the truth about what should be recognized and observed by Christians. What this letter is about, is the truth, and God surely would have you seek the truth about a matter, right? I imagine, that the majority of Christians have no idea where the Christmas traditions originated, nor when they were adopted by the church. I’ll give gifts and maybe even get one or two. I’ll have a Christmas tree in my home this year as I have had every year in the past. This letter is not about Christmas bashing. Before I start this letter, you the reader need to know something.