Many of us have been
raised to believe, as an article of the Christian religion, that Jesus Christ
was born on December 25th, or Christmas day. But, not many of us are aware of
the ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) origins of the December 25th religious festival,
or what it truly represents, and the fact that it has nothing to do with the
Christian religion, or Christmas. In fact, December 25th, is not, nor has it
ever been, the birthday of the Christian god, Jesus Christ!
The verifiable
historical facts surrounding the 25th. of December are as follows:
“In Egypt (Kemet) three
thousand years ago, the birthday of the Sun-god (Ra) was celebrated in the
temples on the 25th of December; it was the first day to lengthen obviously
after December 21st (typically the shortest day of the year) the day of the
Winter Solstice.”1 {Please understand that the ancient Kemites (Egyptians) have
always believed in one Supreme “God”, as they have stated in their Book of the
Coming Forth From Darkness Unto Light, written in revised state 6,000 years
ago. Nevertheless, they believed that the spirit of life from the Creator
existed in all things, and they therefore honored this manifestation of the
Creator’s life-force (spirit) in the Sun, which they called Ra}.
“At the midnight hour,
on the very first minute of the 25th of December, the birth of the Sun was commemorated.”1
(Beginning on the 21st , the period of sunlight in each day increased, thus the
Sun appeared to have been “born” again from the short periods of daylight in
the preceeding months.)
“At this time the Sun
was in the zodiacal sign Capricorn, which was known as the Stable, so the
infant Sun was said to have been born in a stable. Shining brightly on the
meridian was Sirius (the Star from the East); while rising in the East was
Virgo (the Virgin), the line of the horizon passing through her center. To the
right of Sirius was Orion with three stars in his belt. These stars lie in a...
line and point toward Sirius, and in ancient times they were known as The Three
Kings. We meet them in the (Christian) gospels as The Three Wise Men, or
Magi.1.
(Text shown in
brackets, parenthesis or underlined is mine throughout)
This accounts for the
origin of the Sun festival in ancient Kemet (Egypt) on the 25th of December,
but how did this festival get translated into Christmas, or the Christian event
called the birth of Jesus Christ?
“The birth of Jesus
Christ has been set at Christmas... But up to the fourth century, the birth of
the Christian Savior was celebrated on the sixth of January.” 2.
“Certain it is that the
winter solstice, which (was)... assigned to the twenty-fifth of December, was
celebrated in antiquity [by the ancient Kemites (Egyptians)] as the birthday of
the sun, and that festal lights or fires were kindled on this joyous occasion.
(The) Christian festival is. . .a continuation (corruption) under a Christian
name of this old solar festivity; for the ecclesiastical authorities saw fit,
about the end of the third or beginning of the fourth century, arbitrarily to
transfer the nativity of Christ from the sixth of January to the twenty-fifth
of December, for the purpose of diverting to their Lord the worship
(recognition) which the (ancient Kemites) paid on that day to the Sun.” 3. As
an aside, Christmas celebration on the 6th of January was also known as the
“old Christmas.”
But who were these “ecclesiastical
authorities”?
“Pope Julius I (fourth
century) fixed December 25th as the birthday of Christ, but we know that Christ
had no vital statistics, no one knows when (or if) the date of his birth. What
could have inspired Pope Julius I to choose that date... unless it be the
Egyptian tradition perpetuated by the Roman calendar? This becomes evident when
the idea of a tree is associated with the birth of Christ. That would seem
arbitrary if we did not know that Osiris (Asr, whose birthday was December
26th) was the (deity) of vegetation. Sometimes he was even painted green in the
image of that vegetation, whose rebirth he symbolized. His symbol was a tree
with cut branches set up to announce the resurrection of... life. Such then
could be the remote origin of the Christmas tree. Once again we see, on
retracing the course of time, that more than one feature of western
civilization... loses its enigmatic (puzzling) character when linked with
its... African source.” 4.
Further, “the Nativity
itself is an Egyptian import. In the Temple of Amon (A-men) at Luxor (in
Egypt,”Waset”) first built around 1700 BCE (Before the Current Era), there is a
panel of four vignettes (carved in stone) depicting the birth of the infant
pharaoh.” 5.
The Temple scenes show all
of the essential elements of the ancient Kemetic (Egyptian) birth of the infant
pharaoh, which would, 1700 years later be unfaithfully copied by the Christian
event called Christmas. The scenes show:
- the announcement of
the impending birth by Thoth, the messenger, of the Creator to the Mother-To-Be
named Mut-em-ua, which means mother of one to come to rule over Kemet (Egypt).
Christians call this the Annunciation;
- the holding of the
Sacred Ankh (the ancient Kemetic symbol of Divine Life) to the mouth of the
Mother-To-Be, called The Immaculate Conception;
- the Mother sitting on
the birthing chair next to her Royal Child; The Birth;
- the Heavenly Host of
the Kemetic pantheon gathering around the Child to pay homage, and the Three
Divine Personnages offering gifts to the new born Child, called the Adoration
of the Child.
You can travel to Egypt
today and see these scenes for yourself, as I have done. Remember, these scenes
were carved into the walls over 1700 years before the Christian event called
the birth of Christ!
We have seen and
documented how all of the components of the ancient Kemetic spiritual festival
including the date (December 25th), the Stable, the Star in the East, the
Virgin Mother, the Three Kings, the Tree and Lights, gift-giving, and all of
the elements of what is called the Nativity, have been stolen and corrupted by
western culture from their original meanings to an event called Christmas!
Further, western
culture/racism/white supremacy has used our own forgotten traditions to cause
us to dishonor our own history, and our ancestors, ourselves, and our ancient
conceptions of The Creator! As Dr. Marimba Ani said, “The deep spirituality
that we have inherited from the Motherland encourages us to practice a religion
that demeans our heritage.” 6
This is true! As an
Afrikan proverb says, “The higher the monkey (western culture) climbs into the
tree, the more he shows his ass.”
One of the most destructive
things done to the Afrikan by European colonization is that, "they
colonized the Image of God. (but) With this knowledge we can change the world,
if first we change ourselves.” -Dr. John Henrik Clarke
SHM HTP! (May You Go In
Peace)
REFERENCES:
Jackson, John G.
“Introduction to African Civilizations”
Jackson, John G.
“Christianity Before Christ”
Fraser, Sir James
George. “The Golden Bough”
Diop, Cheikh Anta. “The
African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality”
Finch, Charles S. III,
MD. “Echoes of the Old Dark Land”
Ani, Marimba “Let the
Circle Be Unbroken-The Implications of African Spirituality In the Diaspora”
OTHER READZ:
• Afrikan People and
European Holidays: A Mental Genocide, by Rev. Ishakamusa Barashango
• The Historical Jesus
and the Mythical Christ, by Gerald Massey
• The Black Biblical
Heritage, John L. Johnson
• Read, The Merry
Christ(MESS), by M'Bwebe Aja Ishangi
• Read, Black Folks
Guide to Understanding Christmas, by Tingba Apidta, author of The Hidden
History of Massachusetts: A Guide for Black Folks
• Read about other
H0llow-Daze
• The Origin of
Christmas
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