Early humans held mid-winter parties to cope with the cold and - TopicsExpress

Early humans held mid-winter parties to cope with the cold and dark of the winter season, especially in the northern hemisphere. It makes sense that they would feature lights to push back the darkness (bonfires, burning logs, candles), evergreens that remained green when everything else seemed to have died, feasts to gather family and neighbors, and all kinds of festivities. Examples include the Saturnalia and Kalends in ancient Rome, and Jul or Yule in northern Europe. Typical characteristics of these winter parties (burning logs and candles, evergreens, feasts, etc.) are important parts of what we now call Christmas. Some people call this the “pagan roots of Christmas,” because pagan means non-Christian or pre-Christian. Another view is to see that people coming together in the middle of winter was in order to celebrate and survive — and to search for joy and meaning — a common human impulse shared over many eras, cultures and religions. Bruce Forbes.

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