Is there a Pagan “Christmas”?
Depending on which pagan path your interested in there are loads-just about every pagan culture in the northern hemisphere seems to have had a festival at that time of year.Examples are Yule,Winter Solstice,darkest day of the year (all these 3 are on the shortest day of the year which is usually around the 21st of December),Saturnalia (date varied but was always around mid December) and Mithras’s birthday (which was on the 25th of December-Mithras was a Roman deity) I celebrate Yule and it is like Christmas in many ways-feasting and partying,giving gifts,decorating trees and houses-however as a festival it’s thousands of years older.
