Saturnalia- a festival popular in ancient Rome was observed to give honour to their deity ‘Saturn’, whom Romans acknowledged with Greek God – Cronus.Ī week stretching from December 17 th to December the 25 th, Saturnalia could be identified with downright lawlessness and havoc round the streets. THE STORY OF SATURNALIA AND THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS What if I tell you-Christmas, has no definite roots with Christianity, and no branches to Jesus of course? I apologise in advance for having to prick your balloon of Christmas adore, I too got that burst years back. However, now I do know certain things I wish I had known before (not that those are bad memories). And that, I definitely got 10 times more excited with Christmas round the corner than Ami (my Christian friend). As a child, I never knew what Christmas had special bond with my Christian friends, I tried getting the best gifts from Santa and I had a thing for Santa, maybe that I missed my grandfather whom I never saw.
I remember, for good, in my ones unit age, I studied in a purely, entirely Christian-population school, back in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. With Christmas coming and leaving us with mouth still packed of yummy trifles, candy canes, Christmas puddings, eggnog, fruitcake, mashed potatoes, butter tarts, and…(Well, those are my personal favourites, you could name yours), a new bond, that there is a day, when amidst those high-end fights, wars and scuffles we are in, we come as ‘A’ human race.
Black Santa- is what a new trend is helping little or more towards making the racists suffer in their own spun web. And I cannot not mention, Racism-DIES (not that racists stop doing what they do-racism). Not personally, but that’s what this whole world does. Christmas- a festival when globe denies its differentiating patterns and comes as one plain blanket of togetherness, as all wait for the wishes on their lists to come true. A mark to say- winter is finally here in its genuine stature and that a new year is about to commence. Christmas-the time, you and me, the whole globe is dipped with white and red combinations, sometimes green too.
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