December 25 - Blog Posts

I feel like I will forget to reblog it. So yeah

Toucan discovers a traffic cam. video

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, VICTOR!!!

You are officially 30 years old, pretty old, right huh? Just kidding, Victor. 😂 Please don't be mad, Vitya. I'm feeling like Yurio now.

I just wanna wish happy birthday to the gayest Russian ice skater I've ever saw. Again, just kidding. But we can't lie the fact that you're REALLY gay. I wonder what Yuuri gonna give it to you this year. Is it "pork cutlet bowl"? Or "Eros"? 😏

Lastly, I hope you have a great birthday and Christmas bc let's not forget about Jesus Christ in here too, even though Merry Vikmas.

(PS: As l said I can't draw or edit a video, this time I'm gonna show you this amazing art from an amazing art, hope you like it)

ヴィクトルお誕生日おめでとう！！

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO VICTOR!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

So I want to wish Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it, I didn't celebrate but that's not the reason why I can't listen to a Christmas song. I went for Mariah Carey bc girl, this song is too iconic for Christmas.

Oh and I also want to let you know it is Victor's birthday today, as if Victor Nikiforov from Yuri!!! On Ice. I will make another post about that but also Merry Vikmas. Oh and that time that video was taken, it was like 1:00 a.m. so yeah.

Don't forget your Jewish mates 🕎😘

חג חנוּכּה שׁמח

ITHICA SAGA OUT ON DECEMBER 25THHH OMGG

hhehhehehehehee

The Origins of the date of Christmas

Yesterday was Christmas, so Merry Christmas everyone! This is the holiday to be surrounded by family and friends and to look back on how far you’ve come, especially in this hellish year. Every year we celebrate this festive holiday on the 25th of December, but I’m curious, where did the celebration of Christmas originate? How did it become decided that this was when we would celebrate Christmas?

It’s a valid question! It is a fact that liturgical tradition, no matter how lauded, is no longer seen in a reliable manner any longer. The skepticism comes from the sixteenth-century Reformation, which inspired Protestant and particular Calvinist scholars to attack the ecclesiastical calendar. ‘‘As recent research has shown, it is the context of these early modern inquiries into the history of the liturgical year, which were often permeated by inter-confessional polemic, that the two basic approaches to understanding Christmas’ origins that continue to characterize the twenty-first-century debate on the subject first germinated. For lack of more appropriate labels, these two approaches may be referred to as ‘History of Religions Theory’ (henceforth: HRT) and the ‘Calculation Theory’ (CT). Roughly speaking, proponents of HRT interpret Christmas as a Christianized version or substitute for pagan celebrations that took place on the same date as the Roman Calendar, the most widely cited example being the birthday of Sol Invictus on December 25. By contrast, adherents to CT find evidence that the birth of Christ was determined independently, by resource to certain types of chronological speculation.’’

It is well known that a lot of Christianity is used to subvert or covert most of the old world’s celebrations. The holidays, like Halloween, Easter, Spring, and Christmas were all re-used from pagan traditions. German philologist Herman Usener (1834-1905) was one of the pioneers in the modern academic study of religion. ‘‘According to his view, the celebration of Christ’s birth in midwinter was essentially the heritage of a syncretistic sun cult, which already bore traces of an incipient ‘pagan’ monotheism. The central turning point in this story comes from the year 274 CE when the emperor Aurelian allegedly elevated the original sun god Sol Invictus to the supreme deity of the Roman empire and established his cult on December 25. Threatened by the persistent popularity of these rituals among newly baptized Christians, the early Church was moved to incorporate traces of the cult into its own liturgy and thus re-interpreted the annual ‘birth’ of the sun at the winter solstice as the birth festival of Christ.’’