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Dies Natalis Solis Invicti (Wikipedia)
Main article: Sol Invictus
Dies Natalis Solis Invicti means “the birthday of the unconquered sun”.
Modern scholars have argued that the festival was placed on the date of the solstice because this was on this day that the Sun reversed its southward retreat and proved itself to be “unconquered”.[citation needed] Some early Christian writers connected the rebirth of the sun to the birth of Jesus “O, how wonderfully acted Providence that on that day on which that Sun was born…Christ should be born”, Cyprian wrote John Chrysostom also commented on the connection: “They call it the ‘Birthday of the Unconquered’. Who indeed is so unconquered as Our Lord . . .?”

Although Dies Natalis Solis Invicti has been the subject of a great deal of scholarly speculation,.[citation needed the only ancient source for it is a single mention in the Chronography of 354, and modern Sol scholar Steven Hijmans argues that there is no evidence that the celebration precedes that of Christmas:
“While the winter solstice on or around the 25th of December was well established in the Roman imperial calendar, there is no evidence that a religious celebration of Sol on that day antedated the celebration of Christmas, and none that indicates that Aurelian had a hand in its institution.”

By the High Middle Ages, the holiday had become so prominent that chroniclers routinely noted where various magnates celebrated Christmas. King Richard II of England hosted a Christmas feast in 1377 at which twenty-eight oxen and three hundred sheep were eaten.[79] The Yule boar was a common feature of medieval Christmas feasts. Caroling also became popular, and was originally a group of dancers who sang. The group was composed of a lead singer and a ring of dancers that provided the chorus. Various writers of the time condemned caroling as lewd, indicating that the unruly traditions of Saturnalia and Yule may have continued in this form.[79] “Misrule”—drunkenness, promiscuity, gambling—was also an important aspect of the festival. In England, gifts were exchanged on New Year’s Day, and there was special Christmas ale.[79]
Christmas during the Middle Ages was a public festival that incorporated ivy, holly, and other evergreens.[80] Christmas gift-giving during the Middle Ages was usually between people with legal relationships, such as tenant and landlord.[80] The annual indulgence in eating, dancing, singing, sporting, and card playing escalated in England, and by the 17th century the Christmas season featured lavish dinners, elaborate masques and pageants. In 1607, King James I insisted that a play be acted on Christmas night and that the court indulge in games.[81] It was during the Reformation in 16th–17th century Europe that many Protestants changed the gift bringer to the Christ Child or Christkindl, and the date of giving gifts changed from December 6 to Christmas Eve.[
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@Random Thoughts

Why do Christians ignore the realities of some Christian festivals?

@X

Point would be taken if our rich tradition of educating our people preempted the ability to do a transliteration of sorts.

Churches are rammed at Christmas in this island, people very much greet others with a “Happy Christmas” as opposed to a “Happy Holidays”, Christmas trees are known here as Christmas trees, and there is no Government effort to supplant baby jesus, in fact mangers remain a very popular public display in decorations. I don’t buy your transliteration other than the modest criticism of shopping – modest in that the point of the poem is far more a critique of effort to take christ out of christmas, which I just don’t see as an isssue in this island.

this poems sounds stupid and it is unrealistic. no one has stop anyone from worshiping chirst. why put something that applies to america here, this is a bajan blog. why must we continue to act like a colony and not as an island? we even see in the papers and around the island, items quoted in US dollars. is that now our currency? if u travel overseas, NO ONE wants US$ – yet we previous slaves and present lovers of the white massa system, have to continue living as if we must show we love white massa country in order to get somewhere in life.

@chocalate city hassle

Are you suggesting or disagreeing that Bajans do not exhibit Northamericanesque attitudes right here in Barbados?

To understand your point better because this blog focuses on Bajan issues we should not discuss wider issues? Do bajans live on a rock in the middle of the ocean? Oooops then again we do!

@ David
Is it possible to filter the IP address as well as the alias? Gotta be something that can be done to stop that denizen from “Da Looney Bin” with his idea of “fun”.

@BU.David: “Do what BU does, ignore.

You cannot ignore.

If you are doing your job.

@Peninsularwoman247…

What is one plus 1?

@Let Me Tell You How Sick These Women Are: That would be two, Christopher.

Correct.

So you are not a robot.

So then, please tell us, what is your agenda?

Or maybe some Christians are afraid to acknowledge that the sun has been widely worshiped in all human societies. No sun no human life. Of course now we know that the sun is just an old ball of fire, but still no sun, no food, no us.

Maybe is is scary to acknowledge that our lives depend on a ball of fire. Something that is itself not alive.

So the non-living thing (the sun) keeps all life alive.

But David I ain’t no Einstein as Amused reminded me on another thread only today.

So now I will sign mysel only Random.

Random

Random (Thoughts) | November 10, 2011 at 8:03 PM |
Thanks for the ray of Light! It brings molecules of fertility to the barren religious landscape in this brainwashed nation!
Thank Go(o)dness for the sunbeam of knowledge and wisdom!

sDavid sI see sthat you has a spicture sof sthe sPM with a smile … Swhat he smiling at? Slike sall of sthe stravelling has slifted shis spirits

Why doesn’t the dunce who started this thread actually live in Barbados?

@Seeker

Barbados is simply being drowned in a see of enculturation and we seem powerless to retain our identity in the process.