Merry Christmas, wish you hear everywhere, young and old. Of course, the wish in the majority cases is a mere repetition compulsion. But those who think what they say, they believe with their good wishes to commemorate the birth of Jesus and the majority of augurs not know, or forgot, that the choice of December 25th as Christmas day is borrowed from the Christian feast of Sol Invictus, "Unconquered Sun", the Sun God (El Gabal) that the Emperor Heliogabalus imported from Syria to Rome in 218.
Emperor Aurelian in 270 he established the worship and consecrated the temple on December 25 274, during the feast of the Nativity of the Sun on the day, that is, the winter solstice according to the Julian calendar, when the sun touches the lowest point of his path, it stops (hence the name only stitium, "Stop the Sun") and continues its ascent, in a succession of events that can be metaphorically described as his "death, resurrection and ascension into heaven." On March 7, then 321 the Emperor Constantine declared the Dies Solis, who even today is called in English Sunday, the Roman day of rest.
Having apparently been noticed by the faithful of both religions, thanks to evangelical pronouncements such as "I am the light of the world, the connection between Christ and the Sun was made official by Pope Julius I in 350, with ' invention as of December 25, Christmas Jesus Dies Solis was also adopted by Christians as a day of rest, though the name on Sunday, from Dominus, "Lord."
The worship of Christ was not able to remove that of the Sun, as illustrated by the Sermon on Christmas 460 by Pope Leo the Great: "It 's so much the religion of the Sun estimated that some Christians, before entering the Basilica St. Peter the Apostle, dedicated to the one God living and true, having climbed the stairs leading to the atrium above, they turn to the sun and bending his head gleaming bow in honor of the star. We are very distressed and we grieve to this fact, which is repeated in part through ignorance and partly pagan mentality. "
Although "Ignorant and pay", the solar symbolism still remains today in the rituals of the Church, primarily in the use of the monstrance, in which the consecrated Host is exhibited as a sun radiating golden rays. It was introduced in the Christian liturgy by Bernardino da Siena in the fifteenth century, but it was already commonly used in the Egyptian liturgy for the worship of Aten, the god of Akhenaton only represented by the solar disk. The same god, that is, that might have inspired Yahweh to Moses in this case, would Jesus really the Son of the Father, and the circle is closed historically.
But etymologically close in any case, why are not random links between the gods Indo-European and the light: Italian god, Latin deus, greek theos and Sanskrit Dyaus fact all derive from a single root meaning "bright" or "shining", and identified variously the day (hence the Latin dies ) and the sky. Common names were later embodied in their names Dyaus Pitar Hindu greek Zeus Pater, Deus Pater Latin and Italian Father God, which means simply "Father Sky" or with an additional hypostatization, "Father who art in Heaven."
Leo the Great had therefore no reason to be sorry, for reciting the Our Father, Christians are addressed simply to Jupiter, Jupiter, whose name is none other than the ablative of Jupiter, in turn decrease the vocative Dyeu Pitar. A minimum of linguistic enough therefore to expose the anachronism of faith in God the Father: namely, Father Sky, the same as in the natural religion of the Rig Veda was married to Prithvi Mata "Mother Earth", and had children as the fire Agni and Indra the rain.
E 'on these dark confusion between the light and God on the one hand, and between the Sun and the other Christ, which is based and prosperous Christian mythology. Ricordiamocelo and remember, when we receive it and we wish you a Merry Christmas. After all, the true meaning of Christmas is this: that "a child is born in us," but now the days will be less dark and more brighter. It 's a good news, so Merry Christmas to all: the Unconquered Sun, of course!
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