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"The date of December 25th probably originated with the ancient "birthday" of the son-god, Mithra, a pagan deity whose religious influence became widespread in the Roman Empire during the first few centuries A.D. Mithra was related to the Semitic sun-god, Shamash, and his worship spread throughout Asia to Europe where he was called Deus Sol Invictus Mithras. Rome was well-known for absorbing the pagan religions and rituals of its widespread empire. As such, Rome converted this pagan legacy to a celebration of the god, Saturn, and the rebirth of the sun god during the winter solstice period. The winter holiday became known as Saturnalia and began the week prior to December 25th. The festival was characterized by gift-giving, feasting, singing and downright debauchery, as the priests of Saturn carried wreaths of evergreen boughs in procession throughout the Roman temples.Variations of this pagan holiday flourished throughout the first few centuries after Jesus Christ, but it probably wasn't until 336 AD that Emperor Constantine officially converted this pagan tradition into the "Christian" holiday of Christmas." -Source

My Blog

Hipster: Im just like my Dad was cause i dont know who I am

I'm sipping a scummy pint of cloudy beer in the back of a trendy dive bar turned nightclub in the heart of the city. In front of me stand a gang of hippiesh, scenester, grunge-punk types, who crowd ar...
Posted by on Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:56:00 GMT

Bernard Purdie Drum Shuffle (greatest video ever)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9hq7IEqyKQ
Posted by on Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:51:00 GMT

Is your engineer a dumbass?¿?

The Top 10 Dumbass Engineer Statements10. "It doesn't matter what kind of guitar/bass/mic cable you use." You should not cut corners on your cables. Spend some extra money on high-quality cables that ...
Posted by on Fri, 09 May 2008 23:22:00 GMT

Band reviews

So I've decided to make a new blog as a kind of record of the reviews for the various bands that im in........both good and bad...if you see one of Dr Colossus, Mamaku Project, Lickity Splits shows an...
Posted by on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:08:00 GMT

Goodbye India

Well, we are leaving today, our 2 month journey is now over. We have seen so many interesting, beautiful places, and seen some amazing, interesting, sad things.With writing this blog every week I...
Posted by on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 23:31:00 GMT

Delhi-Jaipur-Pushkar-Bundi-Udaipur

Hi again, Well we have one week left and we've travelled quite far since I last wrote so I thought I'd better make an update before I forget what we've done and im on a plane home. Delhi is cool, ver...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 05:09:00 GMT

Merry christmas from the desert

  "The date of December 25th probably originated with the ancient "birthday" of the son-god, Mithra, a pagan deity whose religious influence became widespread in the Roman Empire during the first...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Dec 2007 21:03:00 GMT

The many smells of India

I have copied this from Bens blog for those of you who arn't looking at his site; i think its funny (cause its true)   merry xmas, hope you all get lots of crap   xoxo   The following i...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 22:52:00 GMT

Varinasi-Agra-Delhi

Varinasi is an amazing place, and is famous for four things: 1) The Ghats 2) Music 3) Silk 4) Paan We explored the Ghats, saw music ( I even bought some nice Tabla) and purchased silk. The latter...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:33:00 GMT

India and such

Ok so i havnt written much lately, mostly been too busy and lazy but here we go.....Calcutta is actually very cool and doesnt deserve the bad rap that it gets ( "Black hole of Calcutta" etc). It is of...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:28:00 GMT