Friday, June 11, 2010

Our pagan calendar and week

The Greeks named the days week after the sun, the moon, and the five known planets, which were in turn named after the gods Ares, Hermes, Zeus, Aphrodite, and Cronus. The Romans substituted their equivalent gods for the Greek gods, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn. The Germanic peoples generally substituted similar gods for the Roman gods, Tiu, Woden, Thor, and Freya, but did not substitute Saturn. This is where our modern days of the week come from. Sun's-day, Moon's-day, Tiu's-day, Woden's-day, Thor's-day, Freya's-day, and Saturn's-day. Our modern monthly calendar is also imbued with pagan and mythological significance. Janus is the Roman god of gates and doorways, where we get January from. Februa is the Roman festival of purification, held on February fifteenth. Mars, the Roman god of war, is where we get March from. The Pentagon in Washington D.C. is also constructed using mythological, paganistic, and occultic architecture based upon "The god of War" also known as "The god of Mars" and identified with the number five, hence; pentagon and pentagram. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, also identified as the Roman goddess Venus, is where we get Aphro, which became Aprilis, then April. Maia (meaning "the great one") is the Italic goddess of spring, the daughter of Faunus, and wife of Vulcan. Maia became May. Juno is the principle goddess of the Roman Pantheon. She is the goddess of marriage and the well-being of women. She is the wife and sister of Jupiter, and identified with the Greek goddess Hera, and where we get our month of June. Julius Caesar reformed the Roman calendar, which became the Julian calendar in 46 BC. In the process, he renamed the month of Quintilis to "July" after himself. Augustus Caesar clarified and completed the calendar reform of Julius Caesar. In the process, he also renamed this August after himself. The remaining four months came directly from the old Roman calendar and are off by two months. What I mean by this is that "Septem" which means seven, and was the seventh Roman month, instead is our ninth month of September. "Octo" which means eight, and was Rome's eighth month, wound up as our tenth month, known as October. "Novembris mensis" means, ninth month, and became our eleventh month, November. "Decem", meaning "ten", (note: decade, decalogue), the Roman tenth month, became our twelfth month we now call December. It's a little scary and a little creepy how everything is named after pagan sources, men who made themselves to be gods, and mythological and false gods. It seems man has made a god out of everything, including himself, and the one time God really did show up on the earth, they murdered Him on a cross. But it's all part of God's plan! And soon enough, He's going to return again and fix this joke of a planet we have concocted! Maranatha!

2 comments:

  1. I've read many documents about our pagan roots in the calendar, but I thought your blog on this subject was the best I've read. It is straightforward and interesting. Thanks for providing this information.

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  2. Amen. The next time a religious person tells me they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter because of the pagan overtones, I am going to ask them if they write "Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday" on their checks, legal papers, or anywhere else. Or August or June. It's all pagan, but the meaning Christians pour into these events is not pagan at all.

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