The New Years festivities originated in Babylon and found their way to Greece and finally to Rome. The Romans called it Saturnalia -- in honor of Saturn. Among them it was extremely popular -- a time of revelings, drinking bouts, orgies -- finally ending in HUMAN SACRIFICE! The first day of the Saturnalia shifted during the lifetime of Rome ... it began around the middle of December ... and continued until January first. In its midst was December twenty-fifth, the day, as the Romans calculated, when the sun was at its lowest ebb .... (E. W. Counts 4000 Years of Christmas, page 28.) It was Julius Caesar, Emperor of pagan Rome, who instituted the New Years festival on January first. In 46 B. C., Caesar adopted the Julian calendar. He transferred to the first of January ALL of the licentious customs surrounding the Roman Saturnalia!
Posted on: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:41:13 +0000
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