Three Different Celebrations at the Same Time is Not an Accident

Season's Greetings! 😊🎉🎄

Happy Yalda (longest and darkest night of the year)!

Happy Hanukkah!

Merry Christmas!

Original Celebration of Christmas has been due to Birthday of Mithra/Mehr (21st Dec) celebrated in Rome and other parts of Europe by Mithraists.

Coincidence with Jewish Hanukkah (Festival of Lights) is not just an accident.

The ceremony is traced to the historical combat myth between Good Forces of the Light against the Evil Forces of the Darkness

It was believed that the greatest battle between the forces of Good & Evil (Ormuzd and Ahriman) was fought on Yalda Night, the night before Winter Solstice.

Relief from Taq-i Bostan in Kermanshah, Iran, showing Ardeshir I of Sassanid Empire at the centre receiving his crown from Ahura Mazda. The two stand on a prostrate enemy. At the left is Mithra as a priest, wearing a crown of sun-rays, holding a priest's barsam, and standing on a sacred lotus.

The night of the winter solstice was recognised & celebrated as the time of the Sun's Birthday / rebirth by Aryan tribes in Iran & Europe.

Eastern Sasanian seal depicting Mithra, late 4th or 5th centuries. (British Museum, no. OA 1932.5-17.13; Callieri, 1990)

In the 4th century AD as a result of errors made in calculating leap years and dates, the birthday of Mithra was transferred to December 25th.

In 274 CE, the Roman emperor Aurelia declared December 25th as the birthday of unconquered Sun "natalis solis invicti" which at the winter solstice begins to show an increase of light. He declared this day as the day of festivities(Tara Farhid-Gallo,2009).

Christmas / as per The Catholic Encyclopedia: "Oh, how wonderfully acted providence that on that day on which the Sun was born...Christ should be born" (Cyprian wrote).

Similarities between Christ & Mithra Mithraism: a deity existed long before Christianity like:

Mithra was called: 

•The Good Sheppard, 

•The Way 

•The Truth, 

•The Light, 

•Redeemer 

•Saviour, and 

•Messiah.

Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter, at which time he was resurrected.

Sasanian seal, formerly in the Berlin State Museum, depicting Mithra

THE ORIGINAL MADONA & THE CHILD 

In catacombs at Rome a preserved relic of old Mithraic worship found that shows a picture of the infant Mithra seated in the lap of his virgin mother, while on their knees before him were Persian Magi adoring him and offering gifts (Zohreh Jooya,2009).

Christmas also comes on the eve of the Persian month of "DAY," the first month of winter, also the name of the pre-Zoroastrian God, more commonly known as 'Saturn" in the west. In Persia, DAY was praised and revered as the most powerful God of creation and light, from which we have the English word "day" (the period of light in 24 hours). In the Roman world, the Saturnalia, from December 17 through December 24, became a time of merrymaking and exchange of presents, in honor of the Roman God Saturn.