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Saturnalia continued as a secular celebration long after it was removed from the official calendar. [103] As William Warde Fowler notes: "[Saturnalia] has left its traces and found its parallels in great numbers of medieval and modern customs, occurring about the time of the winter solstice." [104] The date of Jesus's birth is unknown.
[1] [6] This hypothesis has been heavily criticized by William Warde Fowler and as such, the Christmas custom of the Lord of Misrule during the Christian era and the Saturnalian custom of antiquity may have completely separate origins; [6] the two separate customs, however, can be compared and contrasted.
For instance, the origin of Christmas symbolism is constantly fluctuating with theories that certain items are pagan because paganism employed natural symbols in its rituals, whereas other sources point out that specific Christmas items like the Christmas Tree did not exist until Germanic Christians, or churches, utilized a unique combination.
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Saturnalia is an ancient Roman festival in honor of the god Saturn. Saturnalia may also refer to: Literature. Saturnalia (Callin novel), a 1986 science fiction ...
Santa Claus. Santa Claus is an 1898 British silent trick film directed by George Albert Smith, which features Santa Claus visiting a house on Christmas Eve. The film, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "is believed to be the cinema's earliest known example of parallel action and, when coupled with double-exposure techniques that Smith had already demonstrated in the same year's ...
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