Winter Solstice

Welcome to the winter solstice...

(not everything you were told to believe)

A celebration of Christmas?

The winter solstice was celebrated as early as 10,000 BC

Not only a celebrated time of the year, 

It represented the middle of winter when the

Amount of darkness was at its greatest. 
Going forward the time of darkness 

Becomes less & less with each passing day. 

The winter solstice was such an important time

of celebration, so widespread  and popular, 

it was claimed and overtaken by Christians 

to celebrate the birth of Christ. 
What better way to originate a religious holiday 

than to take over an already popular holiday. 

Note: there is no actual date given to the birth of 

Christ in the bible... but scholars believe from 

References that it was in June, summertime. 

Late December was indeed an arbitrary date

and taking over the winter solstice would

endure acceptance for a established celebration. 

The Christian  celebration of Christmas was invented 

by the Romans as the ways to co-op the tame the 

raucous pagan holiday of Saturnalai.

Which actually celebrated a fixed time in

the Earths natural seasonal cycles.