Finshaggy
Well-Known Member
Halloween marks the beginning of a season in America, and has marked the beginning of a season throughout history.
Halloween marks the first Harvest Festival, then Thanksgiving, the Christmas to New Years, Chinese or Western. Different people in America will celebrate these different ways, and since the Christians in America claim that there is a war on Christmas, I want to wage a real war on Christmas where we take the Holidays BACK. And as Polytheists, we can celebrate AS MANY GODS AS WE WANT.
The "Thanks Giving" or "Halloween" feast has been celebrated since the beginning of farming. That is when the crops were starting to finish and everyone started to have their surplus harvests to share and store up. 2 names for this time are "Mehregan" and "Samhain".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehregan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samhain
Then there is Christmas, which is stolen from Mithras. The Roman empire co-oped Christmas to keep the Rural population happy, because they liked to give each other gifts and go out and hunt for mushrooms under pine trees (aka Christmas Gifts) that is why you bring a pine tree in your house, decorate it (like they did) and put presents under it. It is a ceremony that is meant to call on the mushrooms, now it is used to call on a magic fat man.
And people put lights all over their houses in America, so why not take advantage of this and celebrate the Festival of Color and Sight, known as Holi. During this time it is customary to smoke Marijuana, or let the leaves sit in Milk to make a Marijuana beverage. And since the Christians are calling upon Mithras with their Trees and Lights, it is only fair that EVERYONE TAKE MUSHROOMS AND LOOK THAT THE LIGHTS THIS YEAR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holi