Sentences with phrase «pagan festival»
A pagan festival refers to a traditional celebration of ancient beliefs and practices, usually associated with nature, multiple gods or goddesses, and spiritual rituals conducted by people before the advent of organized religions. Full definition
And indeed the Africans dancing around their tribal fires in the opening credits are mirrored, in Ireland, by the annual pagan festival of Lughnasa, held up in the hills, also with bonfires.
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Again the act of Baptism comes from other religions and like the Church that decided to build on past pagan ground and to hijack the old pagan festival dates like Christmas and Easter, God draws us to Himself in a gentle way as He turns our old attitudes and ways upside down.
Samhain, a Celtic pagan festival, marked the beginning of winter and was believed to be a night on which spirits could roam among the living.
Thus, ancient Greeks held pagan festivals to welcome Eostre and herald the onset of spring.
Certainly Christians avoided pagan festivals.
He made conversion easier by substituting festivals in honor of Christian martyrs in place of the old pagan festivals.
Those are all pagan festivals crept inside christainity.
I wish you and your loved ones a happy Easter or what was originally the pagan festival of fertility / spring.
The Pagan festivals always coincided with the vernal Equinox on the 21st of March every year.
The feast of the Chair of Saint Peter is very ancient in origin, arising from the second century, amid persecutions and pagan festivals.
Christmas was invented to counter the pagan festival of the birth of the sun - god.
Easter as a pagan festival coincides with the Jewish Passover.
Many believe we celebrate Christmas on December 25 because the third century church Christianised the date on which some pagan festivals were observed.
Those pagan festivals began to be «Christianized» in the year 350, when Pope Julius I declared December 25 to be Christ's birthday.
If this is true, it wasn't Christianity that Christianised a pagan festival but a pagan emperor attempting to paganise a Christian festival that predated it by 30 years.
In the third century, some parts of the church celebrated Christmas on January 6, but during the following century the date was settled on December 25, the traditional date of a pagan festival of rebirth.
They celebrated Yule in the winter ages before the Church took over the holiday to promote Jesus... All pagan festivals and holidays were given Christian meaning because the Church wanted to brainwash the masses and make assimilation easier!
It was the successor of the pagan festivals, but still something new, because the news was so much more unambiguously good than anything the pagans ever heard.
for the next 3 weeks Christians are celebrating the birth of a storybook character we don't even know existed, and celebrating it on a pagan festival because no - one knows when the character was born.
Out of that came Jesus's birthday on Dec. 25th which was originally the pagan festival day for Sol Invictus (the Victorious Sun) and the rest of the great fantasy story (see Pope Leo X's quote in the early 1600's... paraphrased: «It has served us well, this myth of Christ» — out of the mouth of a Pope no less).
Christianity was just another sect of Judaism, until Constantine hijacked it by adding Greco - Roman mythology to it (e.g. Jesus human son of top god Jehovah replacing Hercules human son of top god Zeus), and pagan festivals (e.g. Christmas replacing Yule, All Saints Day replacing Halloween, Valentine's Day replacing Juno's day, Easter replacing harvest festival.
Although they had no idea on which day Christ was born, their choice was not a coincidence; the date was already a pagan festival, which marked the birth of the sun god at -LSB-...]
I found I liked writing features: News stories about the latest school play didn't thrill me, but an article describing how Valentine's Day started as a pagan festival bordering on the perverse did.
I am Vaclav the Magnificent, with birthday on the sixth of May, the famous day for the generations to celebrate and rejoice, a day in the future years eclipsing Christmas and Hanukkah and Ramadan and all pagan festivals, born in a land far, far, far, far, far, far, far distance from here, a land of ancient and magnificent secrets, a land of enchanted knowledge passed down from the ages and from the ancients, a land of illusion (Russia!)
Samhain, which has now become Halloween, is one of four pagan festivals celebrated over the course of a year, the others being Imbolc, Beltane and Lughnasadh.
By 1572, the «pagan festival» had been driven underground.