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[QUOTE]Originally posted by First of Two: [QB] "Halloween" comes from "All Hallows Evening," which was the night before ALL Saints' day, when the saints were celebrated. All Hallows' Eve was a time of cleansing of the land, when evil spirits and devils were believed to walk the Earth, and the people dressed up in order to avoid being seen by the evil spirits, or else in an attempt to frighten the evil spirits away. This grew out of the older harvest/approach of Winter festivals such as Samhain, named for a God who died each autumn and was reborn in spring in another form. (NOT the God if Death and Evil, as some Fundie idiots will tell you) Hmm.. a God/demigod that dies and is resurrected in spring. Sound familiar? These in turn are related to other stories, such as that of Persephone, Osiris, etc, etc. Come to think of it, there's hardly anything in Christianity that didn't already exist in some earlier religion in a slightly different form... it's even less original than Enterprise. *obligatory tie-in to this section of the board* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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