December 25 : Devakumaran Mitra’s birthday!
“Happy Yalda everyone!”
What? Don’t understand anything? You know when you say “Christmas Day”?
On December 25th, the Son of God Jesus Christ was born. We all mistakenly think that his birthday is celebrated as Christmas Day. Christian brothers, friends and elders, nowhere in the Bible is it written that Jesus Christ was born on December 25th. Many scholars have searched the Bible word by word. It does not even mention the date when Jesus was born.
So why is December 25th called the birthday of Jesus? The answer to this must be sought in the history of the Romans. Early Christians converted other Roman subjects to Christianity. A big problem for them was the pre-Christian Roman feast days. December 25 is a holy day of a pagan religion. It has nothing to do with Christianity.
The Romans celebrated a festival called “Saturnalia” from December 17th to 25th. Law and order is relaxed on certain days every year. “People go door-to-door naked singing in the street. Rapes are common. They eat biscuits made in the human form.” Thus, the Greek historian Lucian recorded his observations. The Germans and the English still make humanoid biscuits at Christmas time. The festival of December is also considered to destroy evil. In each town, a man/woman with bad morals is chosen as the sinner. Whoever the townspeople point out as a “sinner” will be brutally murdered.
The day of judgment is on December 25. Later, even though the Romans converted to Christianity, they did not abandon the old feast day. As the Christian Church declared December 25 as the birthday of Jesus, it became a Christian holy day.
December 25 was celebrated as the birthday of another god. At one time, the religion of the god Mithras spread from present-day Iran to Rome. As written in the Rig Veda, Mithra worship must have existed in North India as well. Mithra worship was especially popular among Roman soldiers. The story of the origin of the god Mithras was familiar to the ancient Romans. Surprisingly, the story of the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of the birth of Mithras are identical. Mithra worship existed for several centuries before the advent of Christianity (600 BC).
So this is no coincidence. Later founders of Christianity may have twisted the story of Mithras into the story of Jesus. No one knows Mitra’s story today. But the situation was different then. Just as the story of the birth of Jesus is commonly known today, so the ancient Romans knew the story of the birth of Mithras. Thus by substituting one for the other, the old religious beliefs were completely destroyed.
Mithra, the son of God, is said to have been born on earth on December 25. Like the Virgin Mary who gave birth to Jesus, Mithra’s mother Anahita also gave birth to the Son of God as a virgin. When Mithra died, he was buried in a cave. He resurrected after a few days. It is worth noting that the story of Jesus’ death also coincides at this point. Mithra, one of the many deities, lost importance in Iran when the prophet Zarathustra brought the doctrine of monotheism. Sarathusar introduced a new religious formula, “God is One, His name is Masta.” The “mus” in the word Christmas is a corruption of masta.
The then Pope Leo (376 AD) destroyed the Mithraic shrines. Not only that, he also declared Mithra’s birthday, December 25, as the birthday of Jesus. Mithra worship continued for a long time in Iran’s neighboring Armenia. It is worth mentioning that Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as the state religion. According to their calendar, January 6 was celebrated as the birthday of Jesus. (Christmas is still celebrated today in countries like Russia and Greece.) “Before Christ” and “After Christ” have nothing to do with Jesus Christ. The Christians of the Roman Empire used this way of measuring time to facilitate religious propaganda. (Nowadays secular countries refer to it as “our chronology”.)
The “day of the birth of light” was celebrated in ancient Iran. (Similar to Diwali, which is celebrated in India. This also comes at the end of the year.) In Iran, the day was called Yalda. In Farsi language “Yal” means birth and “Da” means day.
Day also means light. At the same time the word “ta” is found in many European languages. “Dag” in Dutch, “Dag” in Scandinavian languages, “Day” in English. It can be observed that all the words for tomorrow appear the same. The Iranian word “Yalda” for Christmas Day is used in Scandinavian languages with almost the same pronunciation. In Scandinavian countries, Christmas is called “Juledag” (pronounced “yule te”). In Finland they call it “Joulu” (pronounced: “yavlu”). In Scandinavian countries, December 25 is celebrated more as harvest day than as the birthday of Jesus. If your friends live in Scandinavian countries, ask them to confirm the information.
