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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jubilee McGann: [QB] "1. Halloween started its existence as a harvest/equinox festival. It was called Samhain, in honor of the God of Death and Darkness." Samhain doesn't commemorate the God of Death and Darkness. It's a harvest holiday in which we honor the sacrifice of the God of Wheat and Sun so that we will have food over the winter. It is also a celebration of rebirth, as we know the God will be born again at Yule. "MY guess, although I could be wrong about this bit, is that it was originally AT the equinox, but was moved later in order to be on a single day on the new calendar" Nope, Samhain has always been around this date. The Equinox holiday is "Mabon". You will notice that the Spanish tradition has their "Day of the Dead" the day after Samhain night. This is not a coincidence. "These same folks had NO concept of the Christian "Satan." It didn't exist to them. Saying otherwise is false, libelous, and just plain ignorant." True. Satan is a Christian creation that only exists inside the Christian religion. Gee, I wonder why that is? "3. The practice of dressing up came about due to the belief that the spirits of the dead could return on this day...." Yup on this one as well. Also, food was left out to honor the spirits of the ancestors who came to visit, and the Jack O Lanterns were to lead these dead ancestor spirits to your house, to make them feel welcome. "4. Halloween today is no more a "pagan holiday" than are Christmas and Easter (which, as anyone moderately intelligent knows, were ALSO originally pagan festivals, and co-opted by Christianity. "Eostre" was a goddess.) Indeed. Halloween has turned into a MOCKERY of the very sacred and holy holiday that my religion consideres it to be. That's why I don't take part in it. Samhain was a very special time before, and now it's been taken over by candy salespeople and the media. *sighs*. As with Christmas, which now doesn't even have as much CHRISTIAN importance as it used to.. I'm not so sure about Eostre though. It's also called Ostara, and a few other things. Vernal Equinox. Not necessarily VERY connected to the Catholic faith. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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