What holiday wouldn't be complete without its token "Is __________ Pagan?" thread?
Well, is it?
Well, is it?
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Is New Years Pagan?
- Thread starter SalixIncendium
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Sort of. There are pagan festivals that celebrate the new year.Not on 1st January but on winter Salstice
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Everything's pagan, except if you're in love, because if you're in love, the whole world's Jewish.
But we use the Gregorian calendar, which was instituted through a papal bull.
You asked about Pagan, not Gregorian. Kind of hard for some pope to change earth orbit
And methinks you may have missed a word from the end of the sentence
wellwisher
Well-Known Member
The New Year's Day that we celebrate in the West and around the modern day industrial world; Jan 1, is based on the Julian Calendar of Julius Caesar. I would have to say this day was Roman, which was more that just Pagan.
For example, the plus and minus of the zero point; Year 1, is defined by AD and BC, with AD short for 'Anno Domini" or the year of the Lord and BC is short for Before Christ. It also has something to do with Christianity. It is not zeroed based on AP and BP or year of the Pagan or before Pagan.
What also happened was the Romans calculated that year to be 365 and 1/4 days long and made an adjustment which moved the start of the old calendar back from the spring to Jan 1st. The former had been more Pagan. The latter was due to good science and the signs in the heavens.
If we can agree that New Year's day sort of slid away from the solstice a bit, then I'd say that Pagans were amongst the groups that celebrate the solstice.
I celebrate the solstice because it's frikkin amazing to be alive and to have completed another trip around the Sun
I celebrate the solstice because it's frikkin amazing to be alive and to have completed another trip around the Sun
Isabella Lecour
amor aeternus est
Define Pagan. ....
Anything not Christian....
Then, Yes, New Year's Day is Pagan.
What that too short?
I didn't have any cattle to drive between the bonfires this year so I'm feeling a bit out of sorts.
Anything not Christian....
Then, Yes, New Year's Day is Pagan.
What that too short?
I didn't have any cattle to drive between the bonfires this year so I'm feeling a bit out of sorts.
☆Dreamwind☆
Active Member
Not strictly. Seems like a lot of cultures place some sort of value on celebrating the new year.