Notice anything familiar?That Christmas was originally a pagan festival is beyond all doubt. The time of the year, and the ceremonies with which it is still celebrated, prove its origin. In Egypt, the son of Isis, the Egyptian title for the queen of heaven, was born at this very time, "about the time of the winter solstice". The very name by which Christmas is popularly known among ourselves ? Yule-day ? proves at once its pagan and Babylonian origin. Yule is the Chaldee name for an "infant" or "little child", and the 25th of December was called by our pagan Anglo-Saxon ancestors "Yule-day" or the "Child's day" and the night that preceded it "Mother-night", long before they came in contact with Christianity... (pp. 93,94 Hislop).
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