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✖ The Rites of December

✖ ✖ The Rites of December

Holidays from the Pagano Calendar
December 3. Feast of Myrddin (Merlin).
December 8. Winter Festival of the Four Elements.
December 10. Dionysius the depths
December 12. Festival of the Gnomes.
December 13 to 21. Nine nights of divination. Offers a Perchta / Holda
December 14. Feast of Odin lady besteie
December 18 Feast of Epona
December 20. Day of Cernunnos.
December 21 to 23. Winter Solstice. Great Winter Sabba. Idho
December 22 rites of Mithra
December 23. Day Rate.
December 24th Day of December 25 Birch
. Feast of Hecate. Sol Invictis. Feast of Dagda.
December 31. Feast of Artemis. Night of the fairy people.

pagan festival: Italian Stregheria - Sabba
Saturnalia (old name: Festival of Lights, Yuletide, Alban Arthan): [22 December] This Yule by the Celts, and 'the best night' long year. It represents the rebirth of the Goddess in the form of a God who initiates a period of darkness, cold as winter. Because 'in European populations it was impossible to stamp out this holiday, Christians put you near' Christmas, in order to divert people from the real meaning: the rebirth of the Goddess, and normally fertile woman, in the form of a God, death, cold and male, who purifies the world in preparing for death and rebirth in the chill of primavera.L 'custom to celebrate the feast of the night, the streets, stalls with twinkling lights candles' name to the event. December is the month of magical 'year.

The name derives from the Latin decem (ten), so it should indicate the tenth month of the 'year, so it was before the Julian reform, then became the twelfth, but he kept the name. In Egypt the equivalent of 16 December was the feast of Oriside: it invokes the god to have money, a happy family, good friends.
In Rome they began to celebrate the Saturnalia (from 17 to 23), dedicated to Saturn er Vesta, the patron saints of the month. In this period, each half was allowed to make money, even gamble, because God gives prosperity to all oil, "gold coins administers the feast of Saturn in December, "says the old proverb.
overlapped the Saturnalia celebrations of Solstice 'Winter, when the star had risen a bit to' horizon, and the solemn occasion was celebrated with chariot races, a symbol of the sun every day with his chariot across the sky carrying lice.
The symbolic date of 25 December for the Christian celebration of Christmas was chosen around the III-IV century AD C,, because it coincides with the feast of the god Mithras, because in the Gospels not talking about a precise date of the birth of Jesus Many Christians were attracted to these spectacular parties and the Church, concerned about the dissemination of solar cults, m thought to celebrate the same day the Nativity Christ God, who considered the true Light and the True Sun The church of the time so did not give great importance to the exact date of Christ's birth, but in the fifth century St. Leo wrote that the day of Jesus' birth was celebrated in a special way, because his birth was the birth of the Christians, and then solemnly celebrate Christmas.
that day the Romans used to invite friends to dinner and share the gift of a white vase with honey, dates and figs, all accompanied by branches of laurel, known as "gifts" wish for luck and happiness. In our day, New Year's day, and devoted to rest, after the holidays and leisure of New Year's Eve, by its excesses, is more like the Roman Saturnalia. At lunch, if we did not at midnight, we have to eat lentils, because it is said that brought about economic prosperity for the new year. The holiday lasts until Epiphany still as we know it "takes away all the parties."

Rites of December - The most important ritual magic of the month is the celebration of the Solstice 'Winter, the night more Long 's year, the ritual of the Celtic tradition is proposed. In the original ceremony, the cake (which contained pieces of dried fruit and honey) was accompanied by mead, but if you have difficulty to find a sweet dessert wine will be the same.
As you will see the symbolism of 'Agape, which is the collective feast, even in its simplicity draws the brotherly love and good fortune and prosperity.



Rite of the Solstice
It begins sunset on Dec. 21. Spread a cloth on the other to the right liturgical incense censer with the sandal, left a bouquet of yellow flowers, a sweet loaf, a new knife and wine.
the middle three gold candles, forming a triangle with the tip up. A part of the van prepared glasses.
who work at the table to make East and if there are others such surround the altar. Holding hands.
Fumigate room for at least fifteen minutes. Light the candles and then say three times

They should hold me
The forces of 'universe,
reborn in me, life with the rebirth of the Sun
the light of the spirit enlighten me and show me the Stras.
Because I can always walk in well
On the Road 'infinite love. And so be it.

At this point, cut the loaf and distribute a share to each; verst wine and give it to participants. Let me have your candles to the end.


Apart from the ritual for the Solstice, the period from Christmas Eve to 'Epiphany is one of the most popular in the West and is linked to countless traditions, sacred and profane. Let's see some.


the silver thread
Remember to hang in your home or at least on a 'Christmas tree. According to legend, when Mary and Joseph were forced to flee from King Herod 's Egypt, took refuge in a cave to rest. Now came a spider who quickly began to weave a complicated web, which closed the entrance. Shortly after the soldiers arrived, they were the footsteps of the fugitives, they saw the entrance of the cave covered with cobwebs, and do not look in, thinking that anyone who had taken refuge would have to get broken, so that the spider was saved the lives of Jesus and a silver wire as an act of love.


The Christmas Star
This plant red color is now very common. In Mexico, the country of origin is called flor of the noche buena , legend has it that a baby pears too poor to bring a gift to Jesus and began to cry because everyone wore something other than him.
her tears sprang from these wonderful flowers that he brought to church in front of the crib.
It was a great gift as an act of love.


Candle Santa Claus
the evening of Christmas Eve before going to bed left on the kitchen table with a glass of milk, a dessert and a candle: help Santa find your home and snack on the night rifocillerà the most tiring of all the year.


Purification of the House
to clean your home from negativity of the year that is ending, get a branch of fir, 132 cloves 12 juniper berries, a candle white and one black. Before midnight, 31 December spread out a cloth on the ground near the front door and put on the need for the ritual, then lights the candles and wood with cloves and juniper berries have been combined with a censer. Let consume everything.


Farewell to negativity
To take away the negativity a stone as big as a fist. In the night between 25 and 31 December light a black candle and concentrate on the stone. Retrace the years lived and think about all the bad things happen, it back to the stone god help you if you write them down on paper. Let me have your candle and then take the stone, wrapped in foil and bury in a lawn away from your home, or throw them in water with the remains of the candle.


The old calendar
the evening of 31 remove all the old calendars, and burn them on the morning of New Year after being wrapped in red wool saying

years old and burns here
bad luck goes away

Ritual Divination
It 's a ritulale ancient Celtic, made by the girls of marriageable age, to see the face of the future bridegroom.
must be made between 22 and midnight on New Year's Eve, before the new year.
In a copper basin filled with water up to half and place on a table, two candles placed far enough purple, so it will not be reflected in the basin and a censer with incense in grains mixed with a handful of rose petals. Turn
incense then the candles. And gaze at the center of the bowl with your hands on both sides. Liberate the rays and then blown over the water slowly, saying

I want it opened my inner eye,
reveal that the gray mink and disappear.
me see the truth in every image that will

Repeat the formula slowly, rhythmically alternating with blows on the 'water. Manifesting the images.


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's another ritual for women only. Want to know if the new boyfriend to meet soon and marry him before the next New Year?
midnight stand in front of the door and throw your shoes in the air: if both the candy goes to you, do not you get married, if they fall with the tip inward and outward, you will find a boyfriend but once you get married, if they will fall out with the tips toward the door, ready for a wedding.


\u0026lt;u> Ritual prosperity
If there are enough lentils do this rite. Prepare the altar and above it a picture of gold lame. At the heart of gold, and a bridge near a religious symbol of your choice: the object of gold wealth and the religious symbol indicates that you need money, but these are not the ultimate goal of your life. On the side of the two objects you put two golden candles. Under
objects put a cardboard box with lid Right
the censer with incense mixed with mid-dried cedar of Lebanon and aniseed. A New Year's Eve between 21 midnight and fumigate the room and light the candles, clap on the lid of the box with the right index finger, saying seven times

Come to me prosperity
gold box will fill

Imagine your box full of gold coins then say three times:

Thanks for the well-being that I will share with those in need

Remember to do good works and charity.



December 22 rites of Mithra and the subsequent rites of Christmas
A child born to a virgin mother on December 25, the day of his birth three Wizards pay homage to the baby with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
Throughout his life he did many miracles. He was considered the "good shepherd", had 12 disciples, died at thirty-three years buried in a stone tomb but rose again three days later.
He ascended into heaven after eating a sacred meal.
After his resurrection his disciples read: "Rejoice, your God is risen from the dead. His pain and suffering will be your salvation. "

know who we talking about?
Probably many of you will answer without hesitation ...
But they may have a surprise: we told the legendary story of Mithras, dating back some 3,000 years before Christ. Hence Mithraism, Worship of God or Mitra [or Mithra], a native of the Persian community in Asia Minor, later extended to the Roman Empire, especially among the military, where he finally fell from the fourth century AD
Mitra, who was a god solar, easily penetrated the Roman Empire and especially the army and the sanctuaries of Mithra, the mitrei, have spread even in remote regions of the empire, military garrisons venues.

The comparative mythology

The myth of Mithras is not the only one that precedes the Christian story of the incarnation of Jesus in their book The Jesus Mysteries, Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy study in detail the amazing similarities between the myth of the base (common in many cultures) of the gods and sacrificed the life of Christ.
The following are just some of the most important parallels. All the gods sacrificed

are perceived with the following profile: •

are the Saviour of men, God made man and Son cast in one with the Father.

• They were born of a virgin mother in a cave or grotto, Dec. 25 or Jan. 6, features holidays of all solar cults.

• Their birth was announced by a star.

• They received a visit from Wizards that made honor them with the same symbolic gifts: gold, frankincense and myrrh. •

were baptized, an initiation rite common to all the mystery cults of the first millennium AD

• They offer their followers a second birth through the rite of baptism.

• They made the miracle of converting water into wine. •

coincide in the production of similar miracles: the care of the sick, assistance to fishermen for a miraculous catch and act to calm the waters during a storm. •

have been accused of licentious behave.

• They became an elite group of 12 followers or disciples, symbolically associated with the zodiac signs.

• On the back of a donkey in a triumphantly entered the city and the crowd will have been acclaimed King
•
were symbolically equated with bread and wine, converted into signs of their flesh and their blood. •

were assassinated or killed, were wrapped in a cloth, were greasy and are resurrected after three days.

• Their followers visited the tomb and found it empty.

• Their death and their resurrection will be celebrated with an agape ritual, symbolizing the believer's desire to merge with their bodies mystics. •

their sacrifices bring redemption.

• Their followers are hoping that they return to judge men at the end of time and establish a Golden Age.

The pagan roots of Christmas
For inexplicable it may seem, the date of Christ's birth is unknown. The Gospels indicate neither the day nor the year [...] was assigned the date of the Winter Solstice because on that day when the Sun begins its return to northern skies, the pagans who worshiped Mithras celebrated the Dies Natalis Solis Invicta, the birthday of the invincible sun.
(New Catholic Encyclopedia Franciscan Order - 1941)

During the research of information and documents about the pagan origins of Christmas, what is surprising is that the date of December 25, before he became famous as the birthday of Jesus ", was a feast day for the peoples of different cultures and religions very far apart in time and space.

The origins of these ancient cults to be found in what is the origin of life on earth and that from the beginning has been the object of worship and veneration: the Sun

the dawn of humanity, there was a full calendar of annual festivals and and seasonal rituals of reconciliation and renewal.
primitive peoples during the period of their lives were intimately tied to the "cycle of nature" since this depended on their own survival.

At the time, the natural life seemed incomprehensible, threatening, powerful expression of forces to win, it was a magical world.
The old man felt a part of that nature, but in a weak position. Therefore, through the ritual, trying to make friends with this or that force inherent in it.

the middle of this cycle was the star that the rhythm of the day, the Morning Star which determined the pace of fruiting and that affect all human life. For the latter, fearing that the sun does not arise more, reducing it to lose power in winter more and more its course in the sky, had experienced tragedy that threatened his life. So, had to be exorcised by rituals that were intended to prevent the sun does not rise more or less force to help in time.

is precisely from this that we can identify the origins of the rituals and festivals related to the Winter Solstice that still celebrate Yule as the .
During these festivals were lit fires (custom that is found in the holiday tradition of burning log in the fireplace the night before) that, with their heat and their light, served to give strength to the weakened sun. Often these rituals had
to do with fertility and were thus related to reproduction.
Hence the custom in ancient celebrations, dances and ceremonial propitiatory abundance and in some cases, as in the ancient Germanic and Celtic rituals, but also Greeks and Romans, the coupling during the holidays.

The winter solstice

The word solstice comes from Latin solstitium, which literally means "sun stop" (from sol, "sun", and systematic, "stand still").
If we are in the northern hemisphere of the earth, in the days between December 22 to 24 can be observed as the Sun seems to stand in sky, a phenomenon more evident as one approaches the equator. In astronomical terms, at the time the Sun reverses its motion in the sense of "variation", ie reaches the point of maximum distance from the equatorial plane.
The darkness of night and reaches its maximum extension and the least daylight.
occur that is the longest night and shortest day of the year.

Immediately after the Solstice, the daylight gradually returns to increase and the darkness of the night to fall to the summer solstice in June, when we have the longest day and shortest night of the year. The day usually falls on the Solstice 21 [or 22 December], but for the reversal of the apparent solar motion is visible on the third / fourth the next day. The Sun, then in the winter solstice arrives at its weakest phase in terms of light and heat, apparently plunged in darkness, but then returns to life and "invincible" on the same darkness.

And on December 25 seems to be reborn, that is, has a new "Christmas."

This interpretation may explain why the astronomical December 25 date is a celebrity in cultures and countries so far apart.

all begins with careful observation of the behavior of the planets and the sun and the ancients knew good tools that allowed them to observe and describe movements and behavior of stars.
For example, in Maeshowe (Orkneys, Scotland) stands a mound dated to 2750 BC radiocarbon method inside the mound is a stone structure with a long tunnel-shaped entrance. This construction is aligned so that sunlight can shine and flow through the passage within the megalith, thus illuminating the back of the property.
This happens at sunrise at the winter solstice.

The origins of the Sun God compared

Without venturing into the religious comparisons require careful study, however, say that December 25 is associated with the day of birth or celebration of divine figures going back to centuries before Christ.
Among others

The Egyptian God Horus
The mosaics and frescoes depicting images of Isis with Horus in her arms reminiscent of the Christian iconography of Madonna and child, so as to lead us to believe that in Christian times, for obvious reasons, some representations of Isis and Horus, often depicted as a child with the solar corona on the head, were probably recycled [undoubtedly gave rise to the Black Madonnas of Christian cults].

The Indo-Persian God Mithras
That was the cult of Mithras more competitive to Christianity and that Christianity was merged with syncretism. Even
Mitra was born of a virgin, had twelve disciples and was called the Saviour.


The Babylonian Tammuz and Shamas

In the days corresponding to December 25 today, in about 3000 BC, was celebrated Babylonian sun god Shamash. The sun god was called Utu in Sumerian and Akkadian Shamash.
was the god of the sun, justice and prediction, as the Sun sees everything: past, present and future.

subsequently appeared in the cult of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and her son Tammuz, who was considered the incarnation of the Sun
Similarly Isis, Ishtar was also represented with her child in her arms. Around the head of Tammuz it featured a halo of 12 stars that symbolized the twelve zodiac signs.
is interesting to add that in this worship the God Tammuz dies to rise again after three days.

Dionysus
In the days of the winter solstice, was held in honor of Dionysus Lenaea call a ritual feast, the feast of wild women. Was celebrated the God who was reborn baby after being torn to pieces.

Bacab
was the Sun God in the Yucatan, it was believed that he had made to Chiribirias world of the virgin.

Bacab
was the Sun God in the Yucatan, it was believed to have been brought into the world of the virgin Chiribirias.

The Inca Sun God Wiracocha
The Inca Sun God was celebrated in the festival of Inti Raymi Winter Solstice (celebrated on June 24 because the southern hemisphere, the seasons being reversed, the Winter Solstice falls precisely in June ).

Obviously the first cited in this brief should have little impact on the creation of Christianity.

On the other hand the pre-Columbian solar worship is interesting to note the time and the sacred symbols are common to civilizations as far apart them.
This should raise the suspicion often more of a common origin of religions, through a comparative study of the same search for meaning in life. Instead, you blindly continue to lay beliefs about anthropomorphic

dogmatic and more or less explicitly intolerant of others.

All these narratives are based on Sun's motion across the sky, and then a development of astrological ideas / theology, which took place in the world. In other words, Jesus Christ and all other myths of a similar structure, are personifications of the entity solar.

For example, many of the crucified God-men in every part the world, share the birth date shall be 25 December.
This is due to the fact that our ancestors had noticed (from a geocentric perspective) the sun goes down, annually, to the south until the date of the Winter Solstice, where (as explained above), seems to be in place for about three days, then resume its upward movement again. This apparent arrest the ancients read an allegory of death and, in return of bike, an allegory of the rebirth of the Sun Ancient

- great astronomers - were nonetheless aware of the vital necessity that the sun rose regularly every day, interrupted its fall season and that his resumption movement upward. So it was that culture, among them different and distant, they celebrated the rebirth of the Sun God on December 25.

Some features common to all of the Solar:

• Sun dies for three days from December 22, Winter Solstice, when it stops its downward movement and then return to birth, or raise, December 25 resumed its upward movement.

• In some areas of the earth, the calendar originally began in the constellation Virgo and the Sun would thus born of a virgin.

• The Sun is the Light of the World.

• Sun walking on the clouds and all the can see.

• The Sun rises in the morning is the savior of mankind.

• Sun wears a crown, crown of thorns or halo.

• Sun walking on water.

• The followers of the Sun, the apostles or disciples are the 12 months of the year, the 12 zodiac signs, constellations, through which the Sun itself will have to pass.

• Sun, at noon, is in the home or at the temple of the Most High, so he begins the work of his Father to the twelfth time.

• The Sun enters into each sign of the zodiac every 30 degrees above the horizon, so the Sun of God begins his ministry thirtieth year.

• The sun is hung on a cross (crucified), which symbolizes its passage through the equinox and the vernal equinox fell on Easter, then rises again.

Obviously the first cited in this brief should have little impact on the creation of Christianity.

On the other hand the pre-Columbian solar worship is interesting to note the time and the sacred symbols are common to civilization so far apart.
This should raise the suspicion often more of a common origin of religions, through a comparative study of the same search for meaning in life. Instead, you blindly continue to lay dogmatic beliefs about anthropomorphic and more or less explicitly intolerant of others.

All these narratives are based on Sun's motion across the sky, and then a development of astrological ideas / theology, which took place in the world. In other words, Jesus Christ and all other myths of a similar structure, are personifications of the entity solar.

For example, many of the crucified God-man in the world, share the birth date shall be 25 December.
This is due to the fact that our ancestors had noticed (from a geocentric perspective) the sun goes down, annually, to the south until the date of the Winter Solstice, where (as explained above), seems to be in place for about three days, then resume its upward movement again. This apparent arrest the ancients read an allegory of death and, in return of bike, an allegory of the rebirth of the Sun Ancient

- great astronomers - were nonetheless aware of the vital necessity that the sun rose regularly every day, interrupted its fall season and that his resumption upward movement. So it was that culture, among them different and distant, they celebrated the rebirth of the Sun God on December 25.

Some features common to all of the Solar:

• Sun dies three days after since 22 December, Winter Solstice, when you shut down its downward movement and then return to birth, or raise, December 25, resuming its upward movement.

• In some areas of the earth, the calendar originally began in the constellation Virgo and the Sun would thus born of a virgin.

• The Sun is the Light of the World. • Sun

walk in the clouds, and everyone can see.

• The Sun rises in the morning is the savior of mankind.

• Sun wears a crown, crown of thorns or halo.

• Sun walking on water. • The

followers of the Sun, the apostles or disciples are the 12 months of the year, the 12 zodiac signs, constellations, through which the Sun itself will have to pass.

• Sun, at noon, is in the home or at the temple of the Most High, so he begins the work of his Father to the twelfth time.

• The Sun enters into each sign of the zodiac every 30 degrees above the horizon, so the Sun of God begins his ministry at thirty years.

• The sun is hung on a cross (crucified), which symbolizes its passage through the equinox and the vernal equinox fell on Easter, then rises again.



The Sun God
It is clear that the life of Jesus told in the Gospels incorporates other ancient myths, a fact which gave rise to a debate is still open, so that in the bosom of the Christian culture of the profane.
What is the meaning of the repetition of this sacred history? Why
arises spontaneously in all civilizations in the world?

Christianity claims that Jesus, God broke into human history.

As part of his cultural era, and the birth of a virgin mother following a miraculous procreation, and the resurrection on the third day following his death on the cross means to attribute the marks of divinity.
But in the eastern Mediterranean civilization of the first century. AD these miracles were signs the supreme gods of their pagan agricultural and solar.

The myth of the base, which is expressed in different forms to every culture, is to play the young God who dies in the prime of his life to regenerate naturally by his blood, but was reborn with the new spring wheat, to become in the Lord of the living and the dead and the Savior of mankind.

In Egypt this God Osiris, Mithras in Persia, in Asia Minor Attis, in Greece Dionysus.
It is not only a fundamental myth of the Mediterranean, but has a universal character.
For the same reason it can not be explained in a simplistic way as the result of successive revisions of an original model, since it can also be found in cultures very distant from each other, which had no contact and that the re-invented themselves.

Prenobscott Among Native Americans, for example, is the Mother Goddess, moved by the hunger of her children, self-sacrificing is spreading his limbs in the land to return with the harvest of maize and tobacco. Among the Celts there were rituals which involved the dismemberment of a woman in the field as a representation of the sacrifice of the goddess of the harvest, symbolism in itself central to the myth of Cybele and that of Demeter and Persephone, but that does not fail even in Eastern religion, where, watched as the great mythologist Joseph Campbell, the myth of the God of creation is repeated all'autosmembramento
Campbell points out that the sacrifice is predominant in the West, while in the East there is evidence of self-sacrifice.


The origins of Jesus
In the fourth century. AD, when it laid the foundations of Catholicism at Nicaea, the early Christians of Rome were familiar with all these myths and lived together mixing with the followers of the various solar cults similar to theirs, such as Mitra (arriving in Rome to the second century. BC), who likewise was born of a virgin in a cave, he was adored by the shepherds, and was assassinated by his enemies that pierced his side with a spear, then resurrected on the third day.
In fact, the transfer of the Feast of the Nativity Dec. 25 was operated to match it in the three great monotheistic religions have settled in Rome and dedicated to Christ, Mithras and Sol Invictus .

The comparative mythology has shown the extent to which the details were re-invented the basic model. La Maddalena, as the Egyptian Isis, wanders in search of God until he is dead, Isis resurrected Osiris, and the risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene giving her the news of the supreme miracle.
Indeed, there is a mirror symmetry, an incredible parallelism that even covers the details of the different myths.

In Egypt there was a former Holy Family: Osiris, Isis and Horus, and also an Immaculate Conception (a variant of the myth of Osiris, Horus is brought into the world without resorting to sexuality, and in another legend, collected by Plutarch, generates itself in Edfu ), a Eucharist (communion osiridea with bread and wine), a Supreme God Triune, and even a communion of the faithful in the body of God, including the subject of mystical fusion.
Osiris merged into one being with the Father (Ra) and was the savior of mankind.
But the amount of agricultural and solar deities that follow the same pattern is significant: Adonis (Syria), Bacchus (Italy), Prometheus (Greece), Orpheus, Zagreus in the mystery cults and so on.

The comparative mythology has shown the extent to which the details were re-invented the basic model. La Maddalena, as the Egyptian Isis, wanders in search of God until he is dead, Isis resurrected Osiris, and the risen Christ appears to Mary Magdalene giving her the news of the supreme miracle.
Indeed, there is a mirror symmetry, an incredible parallelism that even covers the details of the different myths.
In Egypt there was a previous Holy Family: Osiris, Isis and Horus, and also an Immaculate Conception (a variant of the myth of Osiris, Horus is brought into the world without resorting to sexuality, and in another legend, collected by Plutarch generates itself at Edfu), a Eucharist (communion osiridea with bread and wine), a Supreme God Triune, and even a communion of the faithful in the body of God, including the subject of mystical fusion.
Osiris merged into one being with the Father (Ra) and was the savior of mankind.
But the amount of agricultural and solar deities that follow the same pattern is significant: Adonis (Syria), Bacchus (Italy), Prometheus (Greece), Orpheus, Zagreus in the mystery cults and so on.


The eternal Christ of St. Augustine

All the great fathers of the early Church, whose work is known as patristic, knew these myths. In this regard, in the early centuries of our era, formed two currents opposite. One, going back to a tradition represented by St. Justin Martyr, argued that these myths were hatched diabolical parodies to mock Christ and cast doubts about his sacrifice.
The other, which can rely on representatives from prestigious as St. Augustine, he believed it was prophetic foreshadowing inspired by God to reveal to men the universality and legitimacy of the divine mission of Christ.

Since the eruption of God in history, taking an earthly destiny, was the centerpiece of the plan of the Creator, nothing was more natural and logical to give this image in the depths of the human spirit, so that express itself several times over dreams, myths and mystical trance.
According to St. Augustine the true religion had always been "the beginning of the human race until Christ came in a body, when he began to call themselves Christian, already existed." From this
his view, shared by other famous thinkers of the patristic, Osiris - such as the Prometheus greek - was inspired by a prophecy from God

is curious to see how this controversy continues to persist today within the Catholicism. Recently, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, headed by Cardinal Ratzinger, has castigated the regime of silence, the priest and Jesuit theologian Jacques Dupuis for supporting ideas consistent with this line in his book "Towards a Theology of Religious Pluralism", while Cardinal Emeritus of Vienna, Franz Koning, and 75 other Catholic theologians hastened to sign a letter of support to Dupuis.

The problem is old and forced, at the time, St. Augustine to retract the doctrine of "Christ the Lord." The key to understanding the reason for the resistance of the Catholic hierarchy to accept this argument is simple: you give up making the notion that there is no salvation outside the Church and at the same time, we recognize that there are other ways, also empowered by the revelation, to access the truth of God

addition to this internal debate, the mythical antecedents Jesus' cause another debate, this time with the material. From a secular and rationalist, the antecedents of Jesus agricultural and solar are seen as evidence that the Gospels do not tell a real story, but a myth that would have usurped the historical existence of a master of wisdom, a prophet or a messiah Jewish.


Psychology
It is possible that the great psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung - who is not suspected of having favored Christianity - has introduced a solution that avoided the false dilemma of this controversy.

For Jung, in fact, there is a pre-Christian and pagan Christ in the same way that "Christ is as much a historical fact as a psychological fact which tends to happen by itself. "

That is, the universality of the myth comes from the fact that it is an archetype of the psyche deep imprint in the collective unconscious and, therefore, arises spontaneously from time to time in the symbolism of dreams, visionary states, the mystical trance, myths, legends and poetry.

From this point of view, we would have an eternal Christ who reveals himself to all people of all cultures through its archetypal same condition.
Its headquarters would be the collective unconscious, which Jung also came to wonder whether they happened to be the same as that from their experience mystical, others called "God."
This does not mean that Jesus of Nazareth historically embodied the archetype, given its tendency to emerge and express themselves.
And yet, it is natural that this happens from time to time.


studies that relate the myths to Christian pagan myths

Charles Francois Dupuis, 1794, Origine de tous les Cultes The ou Religion universelle. In the work
interprets Christianity (and all religions) based on astronomical and mythological.

Count Volney, 1787, Les Ruines, ou, Meditation sur les Revolutions des Empires.
The French scholar in ancient Egypt saw the precursor elements Christianity.

Kersey Graves, 1875, The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviours.
The writer, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, revealed the heart of the counterfeiters are charged Christians, though often without citing its sources.

Abraham Dirk Loman, 1882, "Quaestiones Paulinae," in Theologische Tijdschrift.
This professor of theology in Amsterdam said that all the letters date from the 2nd century, presenting Christianity as a fusion of Jewish thought and Roman-Hellenic. When he was afflicted by blindness, Loman said that this condition had lit on the dark history of the church!

Thomas William Doane, 1882, Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions.
Another work on the foundations of pagan myths and miracles of the Bible.

Samuel Adrianus Naber, 1886, be probable. Laceram conditionem exemplis illustrarunt et Novi Testaments repetierunt outset.
A scholar of classical literature in Christian writings that could see the Greek myths.

Edwin Johnson, 1887, Antiqua mater. A Study of Christian Origins.
According to the English radical theologian crestiani the early Christians were followers of Chrestus that had appropriated the myth of Dionysos Eleutherios ("Dionysus emancipation"), to create a God-man who had self-sacrifice.

Thomas Whittaker, 1904, The Origins of Christianity.
He claimed that Jesus was a myth.

William Benjamin Smith, 1906, Der vorchristliche Jesus. 1911, Die Lehre des urchristliche reingöttlichen Jesus.
Locate the island of Cyprus the origins of a pre-Christian worship of Jesus

Arthur Drews, 1910, Die Christusmythe (The Christ Myth). 1910, Die Petruslegende (The Legend of St Peter). 1924, Die Entstehung des aus dem Christentums Gnostizismus (The origins of Gnostic Christianity).
The famous philosopher was the leading German exponent of the theory of Christ as a myth. In the Gospels Jesus was a historical context of mystical mold taken from the prophetic tradition and Jewish literature. The Passion is found in the Platonic speculation.

John Robertson, 1910, Christianity and Mythology. 1911, Pagan Christs. Studies in Comparative Hierology. 1917, The Jesus Problem.
Robertson had in mind the universal nature of many elements of the story of Jesus in relation to pre-Christian ritual of crucifixion in the ancient world. Identified in Jesus / Joshua an ancient god that had the shape of a lamb.

Alexander Hislop, 1916, The Two Babylons.
Comprehensive essay on pagan rituals and other customs of Catholicism.

Edward Carpenter, 1920, Pagan and Christian Creeds.
A study of the pagan origins of Christianity.

James Frazer, 1922, The Golden Bough. An anthropological interpretation of the path of man by magic, religion and science, Christianity as a cultural phenomenon.

John J. Jackson, 1938, Christianity Before Christ.
comments on earlier Egyptians of the Christian faith.

Herbert Cutner, 1950, Jesus: God, Man or Myth?
The mythical nature of Jesus with a summary of the debate between supporters and appearance of the historic appearance of the mythical. It 'has long argued that the mythical nature. The pagan origins of Christ.

Michael Kalopoulos, 1995, The Great Lie.
The greek historian explores the remarkable parallels between aspects of the biblical texts and Greek mythology.

Alvar Ellegard, 1999, One Hundred Years Before Christ Jesus.
Christianity comes from sect of the Essenes, Jesus being the prototype of the Teacher of Righteousness.

Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy, 1999, The Jesus Mysteries. 2001, Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians.
study of the relationship between the story of Jesus and the myth of Osiris-Dionysus. Jesus and Mary Magdalene reminiscent of the pagan gods of the God-man and the woman-goddess.

Burton Mack, 2001, The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy.
The social context of the creation of myths.

Tom Harpur, 2005, The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light.
The Canadian scholar of the New Testament, former Anglican priest, represents the views of Kuhn, Higgins and Massey. Jesus is a mythical figure, and all the essential ideas of Christianity come from Egypt.


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